A01=Peter Munz
Adaptive Advantage
Author_Peter Munz
Category=PDA
Category=QD
Category=QDTK
chance
Chance Mutation
cognitive
cognitive evolution
Cognitive Relationship
consciousness
Continuity Thesis
Disembodied Organisms
Embodied Theory
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eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
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eq_science
evolutionary epistemology
false
False Knowledge
inchoate
Inchoate Consciousness
Inchoate State
knowledge
Knowledge Acquisition
knowledge selection theory
Living Matter
Mental Events
mind-body problem
Minimal Ontology
mutation
natural selection and cognition
Neuronal Events
Non-mental Events
Objective Correlative
Philosophical Darwinism
Popper philosophy
Pre-linguistic Meanings
Prelinguistic Meanings
Primal Sketch
relationship
retention
scientific realism debate
selective
Selective Retention
Sheep Tick
St Thomas Aquinas
Weeping Willow
Product details
- ISBN 9780415756037
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 May 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Philosophers have not taken the evolution of human beings seriously enough. If they did, argues Peter Munz, many long standing philosophical problems would be resolved. One of philosophical concequences of biology is that all the knowledge produced in evolution is a priori , i.e., established hypothetically by chance mutation and selective retention, not by observation and intelligent induction. For organisms as embodied theories, selection is natural and for theories as disembodied organisms, it is artificial. Following Popper, the growth of knowledge is seen to be continuous from the amoeba to Einstein'. Philosophical Darwinism throws a whole new light on many contemporary debates. It has damaging implications for cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and questions attempts from within biology to reduce mental events to neural processes. More importantly, it provides a rational postmodern alternative to what the author argues are the unreasonable postmodern fashions of Kuhn, Lyotard and Rorty.
