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Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) - Hardcover

William F. Harms

 
9780521815147: Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521815142 ISBN 13: 9780521815147
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This book is intended to help transform epistemology - the traditional study of knowledge - into a rigorous discipline by removing conceptual roadblocks and developing formal tools required for a fully naturalized epistemology. The evolutionary approach which Harms favours begins with the common observation that if our senses and reasoning were not reliable, then natural selection would have eliminated them long ago. The challenge for some time has been how to transform these informal musings about evolutionary epistemology into a rigorous theoretical discipline capable of complementing current scientific studies of the evolution of cognition with a philosophically defensible account of meaning and justification.

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Review

'I strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in pursuing the development of a biologically based naturalistic account of knowledge and the evolution of cognitive mechanisms. It is not an easy read but will more than repay the careful reader with suggestive insights and, I believe, a unique slant on the host of problems that we have inherited from the work of Donald Campbell.' Michael Bradie, Bowling Green State University

'This book contains original insights about information transmission and the evolution of meaning. After you read Part III the is/ought question will never look the same.' Brian Skyrms, University of California, Irvine

Book Description

This book is intended to help transform epistemology - the traditional study of knowledge - into a rigorous discipline by removing conceptual roadblocks and developing formal tools required for a fully naturalized epistemology.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521815142
ISBN 13 
9780521815147
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
282