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B. D. Hall,M. Hyslop,A. Wurl,S. A. Browntes offered a very anti-Darwinian approach to epistemology. According to Darwinian epistemologist, however, scientific knowledge is fallible and confined to understanding the information we get from observation and experiments. It is argued that precisely such a Darwinian and pragmatic approach to k聪明 发表于 2025-3-28 21:41:01
Evolutionary Naturalism,ith Kant’s distinction between how things appear to us and how they are in themselves. These dualistic ways of approaching human understanding do not fit easily with what Darwin told us about the human evolution and the adaptation of human cognitive capacity. The chapter suggests evolutionary naturaAncillary 发表于 2025-3-29 00:30:59
Evolution and Human Cognition,led evolutionary epistemology. Evolutionary epistemology exists in at least two versions: one strong and one weak. The strong version argues that it is not only our cognitive capacities that are biologically selected. Also human ideas and theories evolve under a selective pressure from the physicaldeviate 发表于 2025-3-29 04:03:58
Sensation, Perception, and Observation,ralist (in virtue of being a common-sense realist) defends a view where instrumental observation is a reliable source of information about the external word. The natural realist argues that we may rightly maintain that we can observe what we cannot perceive with the naked eye. The argument rests on精密 发表于 2025-3-29 10:45:13
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Abstraction and Reification,epts as representing a mindindependent real world since we cannot have been adapted to something that could not have had any causal influence on our cognitive faculties. Rather all so-called abstract entities are of our own making even though we all possess a tendency to think of them as real due to要素 发表于 2025-3-29 20:55:16
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Space, Time, and Space-Time,sticated discussions about relationism and substantivalism. It is well known that Kant believed that space and time belong to the human intuition that structured our sense impressions. The evolutionary naturalist is in agreement with Kant and cannot accept relationism or substantivalism. Both positi