Concepts and Approaches in evolutionary Epistemology - Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge

Wuketits Franz M. (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 9027715777 / ISBN 13: 9789027715777

Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht - Boston - Lancaster, 1984

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XI - 320 pp. D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht - Boston - Lancaster 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Theory and Decision Library - An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social en Behavioral Sciences- Volume 36. Brown linen covers with gilt spine lettering. Spine and covers discolored. Rests of tape on the end papers (Part of jacket glued to the inside back cover). Clean and unmarked inside. Ex. library of the Library of the Ghent University: usual labels, stamps and numbers. Otherwise a good copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Concepts and Approaches in evolutionary Epistemology - Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge
• Publisher: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht - Boston - Lancaster
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027715777
• ISBN 13: 9789027715777
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Methodology
  • Sciences
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

The present volume brings together current interdisciplinary research which adds up to an evolutionary theory of human knowledge, Le. evolutionary epistemology. It comprises ten papers, dealing with the basic concepts, approaches and data in evolutionary epistemology and discussing some of their most important consequences. Because I am convinced that criticism, if not confused with mere polemics, is apt to stimulate the maturation of a scientific or philosophical theory, I invited Reinhard Low to present his critical view of evolutionary epistemology and to indicate some limits of our evolutionary conceptions. The main purpose of this book is to meet the urgent need of both science and philosophy for a comprehensive up-to-date approach to the problem of knowledge, going beyond the traditional disciplinary boundaries of scientific and philosophical thought. Evolutionary epistemology has emerged as a naturalistic and science-oriented view of knowledge taking cognizance of, and compatible with, results of biological, psychological, anthropological and linguistic inquiries concerning the structure and development of man's cognitive apparatus. Thus, evolutionary epistemology serves as a frame­ work for many contemporary discussions of the age-old problem of human knowledge.