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This book provides the fullest philosophical examination of theories of evolutionary epistemology now available. Here for the first time are found major statements of new theories, new applications, and many new critical explorations.
The book is divided into four parts: Part I introduces several new approaches to evolutionary epistemology; Part II attempts to widen the scope of evolutionary epistemology, either by tackling more traditional epistemological issues, or by applying evolutionary models to new areas of inquiry such as the evolution of culture or of intentionality; Part III critically discusses specific problems in evolutionary epistemology; and Part IV deals with the relationship of evolutionary epistemology to the philosophy of mind.
Because of its intellectual depth and its breadth of coverage, Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology will be an important text in the field for many years to come.
Acknowledgments
Introduction:
Kai Hahlweg and C. A. Hooker
I: New Approaches to Evolutionary Epistemology
1. Evolutionary Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
Kai Hahlweg and C. A. Hooker
2. Self-organization: A New Approach to Evolutionary Epistemology
Wolfgang Krohn and Günter Küppers
3. A Genotype-Phenotype Model for the Growth of Theories and the Selection Cycle in Science
Aharon Kantorovich
4. The View from Somewhere: A Critical Defense of Evolutionary Epistemology
Michael Ruse
II: Enlarging the Scope: New Applications of Evolutionary Epistemology
5. Extending Evolutionary Epistemology to "Justifying" Scientific Beliefs (A Sociological Rapprochement with a Fallibilist Perceptual Foundationalism?)
Donald T. Campbell and Bonnie T. Paller
6. Somatic Evolution and Cultural Form
Bernd Baldus
7. Taking Darwin Even More Seriously
Peter Munz
8. Evolution of the Knowledge of Knowledge from the Perspective of the Ecology of Knowledge
Jerzy A. Wojciechowski
9. Evolution of the Steam Engine
C. Brian Cragg
10. A Model of End-Directedness
Patrick J. Ward
III: Critical Evaluations
11. Evolutionary Epistemology as Naturalized Epistemology
Michael Bradie
12. The Trials and Tribulations of Selectionist Explanations
Ron Amundson
13. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Re-emergence of Cell Biology
William Bechtel
14. Evolutionary Explanation and the Justification of Belief
F. John Clendinnen
15. Science as Part of Nature
Gonzalo Munevar
16. From Physics to Biology: Rationality in Popper's Conception of Evolutionary Epistemology
Geoff Stokes
17. Stephen Toulmin's Theory of Conceptual Evolution
Struan Jacobs
IV: Evolutionary Epistemology and the Nature of Mind
18. Evolution, Epistemology and Visual Science
C. U. M. Smith
19. The Physical Manifestation of Empirical Knowledge
J. N. Hattiangadi
20. Intentional Parallelism and the Two-Level Structure of Evolutionary Theory
Mohan Matthen
21. Popper, Natural Selection and Epiphenomenalism
Daniel Shaw
Contributors
Indices