Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 322 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1440 g
Reihe: Theory and Decision Library
Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge
Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 322 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1440 g
Reihe: Theory and Decision Library
ISBN: 978-90-277-1577-7
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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Evolutionary Epistemology — A Challenge to Science and Philosophy.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Notion of the Innate — Immanuel Kant and Beyond.- 3. Patterns of Nature and the Nature of Cognition or, ‘Why the Eye is Attuned to the Sun’.- 4. The Interdisciplinary Foundation of Evolutionary Epistemology.- 5. The Challenge to Science and Philosophy.- 6. Summary and Conclusion.- Notes.- Evolution and Evolutionary Knowledge — On the Correspondence Between Cognitive Order and Nature.- 1. Separate Approaches.- 2. Judgements and Prejudices.- 3. The Theory of Evolution.- 4. Epistemological Questions.- 5. Nature and Thinking.- 6. A System of Hypotheses.- 7. Natural and Cognitive Order 45.- 8. The Kantian Apriori.- 9. Summary.- Notes.- A Short Introduction to the Biological Principles of Evolutionary Epistemology.- 1. Life as a Cognition Process.- 2. The “Hypotheses” of the Ratiomorphic Apparatus.- 3. Summary.- Notes.- Mesocosm and Objective Knowledge — On Problems Solved by Evolutionary Epistemology.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Facts and Fits — What Evolutionary Epistemology Tries to Explain.- 3. Tenets and Traits — What Evolutionary Epistemology Does Assert.- 4. Caveats and Corrections — What Evolutionary Epistemology Does Not Assert.- 5. Mesocosm and Visualization.- 6. Projection and Reconstruction.- 7. Objectivity and Invariance.- 8. Mathematics and Reality.- 9. Causality and Energy Transfer.- 10. Mind and Evolution.- 11. Unfinished Tasks and Unsolved Problems.- Neurobiological Aspects of Intelligence.- The Evolution of Scientific Method.- 1. The Historical Background.- 2. Objective Scientific Knowledge as a Break with the Ratiomorphic Past: The “Third” Evolution.- 3. The Systematic Relationship of Empirical-Evolutionary Epistemology and Meta-Empirical or Pure“Transcendental” Epistemology.- 4. Information and Knowledge.- 5. Science as an Evolutionary Information System.- 6. The “Law of Three Stages” of the Evolution of Method.- Notes.- The Ethics of Science: Compatible with the Concept of Evolutionary Epistemology?.- 1. The Traditional Viewpoint.- 2. Values.- 3. Science.- 4. Motivation of Science.- 5. Scientific Communities.- 6. The Ethics of Science.- 7. Justification of the Code (Compatibility with Evolutionary Epistemology).- 8. The Ethics of Science as a Partial Code of Conduct.- 9. Extention of the Ethics of Science to Society?.- 10. Homo investigans versus Homo politicus.- 11. Threats Bearing upon the Ethics of Science.- The Metaphysical Limits of Evolutionary Epistemology.- 1. Evolutionary Epistemology is a Philosophical Proposal.- 2. As a Philosophical Theory, Evolutionary Epistemology is a Variant of Naturalistic Realism.- 3. Evolutionary Epistemology and Causality.- 4. Difficulties with the Principle of “Fulguration”.- 5. By Its Claim to Truth, Evolutionary Epistemology Annuls Itself.- 6. Evolutionary Epistemology is Unable to Support Its Own Ethical Claims.- 7. Evolutionary Epistemology and Ethics.- Notes.- Selected Bibliography.- Evolutionary Causality, Theory of Games, and Evolution of Intelligence.- 1. A Model for Evolutionary Causality.- 2. The Equivalence of the Theory of Evolution and Dynamic Games.- 3. Evolutionary Epistemology, Memory, and Intelligence.- References.- Evolutionary Epistemology — A New Copernican Revolution?.- Notes.- Appendix. The Logical Basis of Evolutionary Epistemology.- 1. The Limits of the Analytical Approach.- 2. The Logical Structure of the Evolutionary Approach to Epistemological Questions.- 3. Consistency Proof for Riedl’s Probability Hypothesis.- 4. The Problemof Theoretical Terms in Evolutionary Perspective.- Notes.- Index Of Names.- Index of Subjects.