Concepts and Approaches in Evolutionary Epistemology

1984 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Epistemology

The testing of evolutionary epistemology

1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. C. Plotkin
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Epistemology

scholarly journals Some problems of evolutionary epistemology: Hayek’s view on evolution of market

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-347
Author(s):  
Milos Krstic
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Evolutionary Epistemology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Market System ◽  
The One

This paper aims to present Hayek?s view of cultural evolution as an important contribution to contemporary evolutionary epistemology. However, despite the importance of Hayek?s theory of cultural evolution, the tension between his concept of rational liberalism and evolutionary epistemology will be pointe out. This tension limits Hayek?s understanding of cultural evolution. Hayek?s conception of rational liberalism emphasizes the values of individual freedom and benefits of the market system. The term evolutionary epistemology includes the economic phenomena that occur without the participation of consciousness, on the one hand, and activities with the element of purposefulness and intelligibility, on the other.

What Sort of Science Is Evolutionary Biology?

Dialogue ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 129-142
Author(s):  
Mohan Matthen
Keyword(s):  
Population Biology ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Evolutionary Epistemology ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Semantic Account ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Methodological Aspects

Paul Thompson's new book,The Structure of Biological Theories, is about the formalization of evolutionary biology. He is primarily concerned, he says, with the logical, epistemological, and methodological aspects of biological theorizing. The main theme of the book is the opposition between what Thompson calls the syntactic and the semantic conceptions of theories. He wishes to establish that the semantic account is superior to the syntactic in at least three areas: first, it offers a more faithful account of population biology; second, it facilitates a conception of evolutionary biology as a family of interacting theories; finally, it offers us a richer framework for the resolution of methodological problems that have plagued sociobiology and evolutionary epistemology.

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