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Evolutionary Epistemology

A Multiparadigm Program

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Werner Callebaut

    1. Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium
      Rijksuniversiteit Limburg, The Netherlands

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  2. Rik Pinxten

    1. Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Belgium

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 190)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  3. Evolutionary approaches to science and technology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Selection Theory and the Sociology of Scientific Validity

      • Donald T. Campbell
      Pages 139-158

    3. Variation and Selection: Scientific Progress without Rationality

      • Louis Boon
      Pages 159-177

    4. Evolutionary Epistemology and Sociology of Science

      • Karin Knorr Cetina
      Pages 179-201

    5. What Evolutionary Epistemology is Not

      • Gerhard Vollmer
      Pages 203-221

    6. The Philosophical Significance of an Evolutionary Epistemology

      • Andrew J. Clark
      Pages 223-231

    7. Homo Sapiens, Homo Faber, Homo Socians: Technology and the Social Animal

      • Linnda R. Caporael
      Pages 233-244

  4. The Piagetian approach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
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    2. Is Piaget’s “Genetic Epistemology” Evolutionary?

      • Christiane Gillièron
      Pages 247-266

    3. The Genesis of Atomic Physics and the Biography of Ideas

      • Arthur I. Miller
      Pages 267-281

    4. Sensorimotor Emergence: Proposing a Computational “Syntax”

      • Claude Lamontagne
      Pages 283-310

    5. Evolutionary Epistemology, Genetic Epistemology, History and Neurology

      • Leo Apostel
      Pages 311-323

  5. Extensions and applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 325-325
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About this book

This volume has its already distant or1g1n in an inter­ national conference on Evolutionary Epistemology the editors organized at the University of Ghent in November 1984. This conference aimed to follow up the endeavor started at the ERISS (Epistemologically Relevant Internalist Sociology of Science) conference organized by Don Campbell and Alex Rosen­ berg at Cazenovia Lake, New York, in June 1981, whilst in­ jecting the gist of certain current continental intellectual developments into a debate whose focus, we thought, was in danger of being narrowed too much, considering the still underdeveloped state of affairs in the field. Broadly speaking, evolutionary epistemology today con­ sists of two interrelated, yet qualitatively distinct inves­ tigative efforts. Both are drawing on Darwinian concepts, which may explain why many people have failed to discriminate them. One is the study of the evolution of the cognitive apparatus of living organisms, which is first and foremost the province of biologists and psychologists (H. C. Plotkin, Ed. , Learning, Development, and Culture: Essays in Evolu­ tionary Epistemology, New York, Wiley, 1984), although quite a few philosophers - professional or vocational - have also felt the need to express themselves on this vast subject (F. M. Wuketits, Ed. , Conce ts and Approaches in Evolutionary Epistemology, Dordrecht Boston, Reidel, 1984). The other approach deals with the evolution of science, and has been dominated hitherto by (allegedly) 'naturalized' philosophers; no book-length survey of this literature is available at present.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium

    Werner Callebaut

  • Rijksuniversiteit Limburg, The Netherlands

    Werner Callebaut

  • Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Belgium

    Rik Pinxten

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evolutionary Epistemology

  • Book Subtitle: A Multiparadigm Program

  • Editors: Werner Callebaut, Rik Pinxten

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3967-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2582-0Published: 30 September 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8260-0Published: 03 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3967-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 458

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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