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" Evolutionary epistemology, rationality, and the sociology of knowledge / "
edited by Gerard Radnitzky and W.W. Bartley III ; with contributions by Sir Karl Popper ... [et al.].
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701322
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b523511
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Evolutionary epistemology, rationality, and the sociology of knowledge /\ edited by Gerard Radnitzky and W.W. Bartley III ; with contributions by Sir Karl Popper ... [et al.].
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La Salle [Ill.] :: Open Court,, c1987.
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xiv, 475 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0812690389
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: 0812690397 (pbk.)
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: 9780812690385
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: 9780812690392 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographies and indexes.
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Introduction / Gerard Radnitzky, W. W. Bartley, III -- Evolutionary Epistemology -- Philosophy of Biology versus Philosophy of Physics / W. W. Bartley, III -- Philosophy of Biology versus Philosophy of Physics -- Philosophy of Physics versus Biology -- Leading Themes of the Dominant Philosophy of Physics -- Mach's Philosophy of Physics: Presentationalism -- Presuppositions of Presentationalism -- The Scientific Background to Presentationalism: Philosophy of Physics versus Physics -- Presentationalism: Metaphysics Masquerading as Anti-Metaphysical Science -- The Challenge of Evolutionary Epistemology -- The Development of Popper's Thought -- The Evolutionary Epistemologists -- Presentationalism is Lamarckian -- Sensation is Not Authoritative -- The Evolution of Sensation: Campbell versus Wachtershauser -- The Comparative Study of Cognitive Structures -- About a Frog, Idealistically Disposed -- A Summary of the Argument -- Why All This Ought Not to be Surprising--And Why It is -- Evolutionary Epistemology / Donald T. Campbell -- The Selective Elimination Model -- Locating the Problem of Knowledge -- A Nested Hierarchy of Selective-Retention Processes -- Nonmnemonic problem solving -- Vicarious locomotor devices -- Habit and 4. Instinct -- Visually supported thought -- Mnemonically supported thought -- Socially vicarious exploration: observational learning and imitation -- Language -- Cultural cumulation -- Science -- Historical Perspectives on Evolutionary Epistemology.
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Biology-- Philosophy.
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Evolution-- Philosophy.
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Physics-- Philosophy.
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BD161.E86 1987
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Bartley, William Warren,1934-
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Popper, Karl R., (Karl Raimund),1902-1994.
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Radnitzky, Gerard.
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