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Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology

Autor William F. Harms
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 aug 2007
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 current scientific studies of the evolution of cognition with a philosophically defensible account of meaning and justification.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521039215
ISBN-10: 0521039215
Pagini: 284
Ilustrații: 34 b/w illus. 8 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Generalizing Evolutionary Theory: 1. Replicator theories; 2. Ontologies of evolution and cultural transmission; Part II. Modeling Information Flow in Evolutionary Processes: 3. Population dynamics; 4. Information theory; 5. Selection as an information-transfer process; 6. Multilevel information transfer; 7. Information in internal states; Part III. Meaning Conventions and Normativity: 8. Primitive content; 9. Is and ought; Epilogue: Paley's Watch and other stories; Notes; Appendix: proof of information gain under frequency-independent discrete replicator dynamics for population of n types; References; Index.

Recenzii

'I strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in pursuing the development of a biologically based naturalistic account of knowledge and the evolution of cognitive mechanisms. It is not an easy read but will more than repay the careful reader with suggestive insights and, I believe, a unique slant on the host of problems that we have inherited from the work of Donald Campbell.' Michael Bradie, Bowling Green State University
'This book contains original insights about information transmission and the evolution of meaning. After you read Part III the is/ought question will never look the same.' Brian Skyrms, University of California, Irvine

Descriere

This book develops the tools necessary to transform the philosophical study of knowledge into a proper scientific discipline.