عنوان

Evolutionary epistemology, rationality, and the sociology of knowledge /

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0812690389

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0812690397 (pbk.)

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9780812690385

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9780812690392 (pbk.)

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b523511

Title Proper

Evolutionary epistemology, rationality, and the sociology of knowledge /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Gerard Radnitzky and W.W. Bartley III ; with contributions by Sir Karl Popper ... [et al.].

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

La Salle [Ill.] :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Open Court,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c1987.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 475 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Text of Note

Introduction / Gerard Radnitzky, W. W. Bartley, III -- Evolutionary Epistemology -- Philosophy of Biology versus Philosophy of Physics / W. W. Bartley, III -- Philosophy of Biology versus Philosophy of Physics -- Philosophy of Physics versus Biology -- Leading Themes of the Dominant Philosophy of Physics -- Mach's Philosophy of Physics: Presentationalism -- Presuppositions of Presentationalism -- The Scientific Background to Presentationalism: Philosophy of Physics versus Physics -- Presentationalism: Metaphysics Masquerading as Anti-Metaphysical Science -- The Challenge of Evolutionary Epistemology -- The Development of Popper's Thought -- The Evolutionary Epistemologists -- Presentationalism is Lamarckian -- Sensation is Not Authoritative -- The Evolution of Sensation: Campbell versus Wachtershauser -- The Comparative Study of Cognitive Structures -- About a Frog, Idealistically Disposed -- A Summary of the Argument -- Why All This Ought Not to be Surprising--And Why It is -- Evolutionary Epistemology / Donald T. Campbell -- The Selective Elimination Model -- Locating the Problem of Knowledge -- A Nested Hierarchy of Selective-Retention Processes -- Nonmnemonic problem solving -- Vicarious locomotor devices -- Habit and 4. Instinct -- Visually supported thought -- Mnemonically supported thought -- Socially vicarious exploration: observational learning and imitation -- Language -- Cultural cumulation -- Science -- Historical Perspectives on Evolutionary Epistemology.

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Title

Evolutionary epistemology, rationality, and the sociology of knowledge.

Biology-- Philosophy.

Evolution-- Philosophy.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physics-- Philosophy.

Class number

Book number

Bartley, William Warren,1934-

Popper, Karl R., (Karl Raimund),1902-1994.

Radnitzky, Gerard.

Date of Transaction

20140204083641.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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