Issues in evolutionary epistemology / edited by Kai Hahlweg and C.A. Hooker.

Edited proceedings of an international conference held July 6-10, 1987 at the University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1: New approaches to evolutionary epistemology -- Evolutionary epistemology and philosophy of science / Kai Hahlweg and C.A. Hooker -- Self-organization: a new approach to evolutionary epistemology / Wolfgang Krohn and Günter Küppers -- A genotype-phenotype model for the growth of theories and the selection cycle in science / Aharon Kantorovich -- The view from somewhere: a critical defense of evolutionary epistemology / Michael Ruse -- 2: Enlarging the scope: new applications of evolutionary epistemology -- Extending evolutionary epistemology to "justifying" scientific beliefs (a sociological rapprochement with a fallibilist perceptual foundationalism?) / Donald T. Campbell and Bonnie T. Paller -- Somatic evolution and cultural form / Bernd Baldus -- Taking Darwin even more seriously / Peter Munz -- Evolution of the knowledge of knowledge from the perspective of the ecology of knowledge / Jerzy A. Wojciechowski -- Evolution of the steam engine / C. Brian Cragg -- A model of end-directedness / Patrick J. Ward -- 3. Critical evaluations -- Evolutionary epistemology as naturalized epistemology / Michael Bradie -- The trials and tribulations of selectionist explanations / Ron Amundson -- An evolutionary perspective on the re-emergence of cell biology / William Bechtel -- Evolutionary explanation and the justification of belief / F. John Clendinnen -- Science as part of nature / Gonzalo Munevar -- From physics to biology: rationality in Popper's conception of evolutionary epistemology / Geoff Stokes -- Stephen Toulmin's theory of conceptual evolution / Struan Jacobs -- 4. Evolutionary epistemology and the nature of mind -- Evolution, epistemology and visual science / C.U.M. Smith -- The physical manifestation of empirical knowledge / J.N. Hattiangadi -- Intentional parallelism and the two-level structure of evolutionary theory / Mohan Matthen -- Popper, natural selection and epiphenomenalism / Daniel Shaw.

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