From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) (Volume 0)

Sober, Elliott

ISBN 10: 0521477530 / ISBN 13: 9780521477536

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) (Volume 0)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521477530
• ISBN 13: 9780521477536
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

This new collection of essays will appeal to a readership that extends well beyond the frontiers of the philosophy of science. Sober shows how ideas in evolutionary biology bear in significant ways on traditional problems in philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, and metaphysics. Among the topics addressed are psychological egoism, solipsism, and the interpretation of belief and utterance, empiricism, Ockham's razor, causality, essentialism, and scientific laws.

About the Author

Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor of Philosophy and William F. Vilas Research Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison where he has taught since 1974. His research is in philosophy of science, especially in the philosophy of evolutionary biology. Sober's books include The Nature of Selection - Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus (1984), Reconstructing the Past - Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference (1988), Philosophy of Biology (1993), From a Biological Point of View - Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy (1994), and Unto Others - The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (1998), coauthored with David Sloan Wilson.