A01=Suzanne Cunningham
Author_Suzanne Cunningham
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Emotion
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Henri Bergson
Herbert Spencer
Idealism
Lamarckism
Natural selection
Rene Descartes
Subjectivity
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- ISBN 9781878822611
- Weight: 666g
- Dimensions: 386 x 579mm
- Publication Date: 04 Apr 1996
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Has exclusion of Darwin's views on evolution distorted 20c philosophy? Cunningham suggests a reappraisal.
Two of the dominant traditions in twentieth-century philosophy, analytic philosophy (founded by G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell) and phenomenology (founded by Edmund Husserl), explicitly excluded Charles Darwin's account of evolution, not because they saw it as mistaken, but because they saw it as irrelevant. These two traditions set the stage for a great deal of subsequent philosophy, and Professor Cunningham argues that the non-Darwinian framework they constructed continues to constrain significant portions of the field, in particular theories of perception and mind.
In tracing the major reasons for this exclusion of Darwin and evolutionary considerations, and the consequencesfor philosophy, Professor Cunningham criticises purely cognitivist theories of perception and Machine Functionalist theories of mind, and offers proposals on how these theories should be amended to take account of the adaptive role that perception and mind play on behalf of a living organism's struggle for survival and well-being. SUZANNE CUNNINGHAMis Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago.
