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Information and meaning in evolutionary processes /
This book is intended to help transform epistemology - the traditional study of knowledge - into a rigorous discipline by removing conceptual roadblocks and developing formal tools required for a fully naturalized epistemology. The evolutionary approach which Harms favours begins with the common obs...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book is intended to help transform epistemology - the traditional study of knowledge - into a rigorous discipline by removing conceptual roadblocks and developing formal tools required for a fully naturalized epistemology. The evolutionary approach which Harms favours begins with the common observation that if our senses and reasoning were not reliable, then natural selection would have eliminated them long ago. The challenge for some time has been how to transform these informal musings about evolutionary epistemology into a rigorous theoretical discipline capable of complementing curren. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511193668 0511193661 9780521815147 0521815142 0511195095 9780511195099 0511195753 9780511195754 9780511498473 0511498470 9780511194405 0511194404 9786610477708 6610477701 1107144663 9781107144668 1280477709 9781280477706 0511314132 9780511314131 |