Evolutionary Epistemology
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Description: Survey of naturalistic epistemology which emphasizes importance of natural selection; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Michael Bradie and William Harms
Evolutionary Epistemology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) First published Thu Jan 11, 2001; substantive revision Thu Jan 5, 2012 Evolutionary Epistemology is a naturalistic approach to epistemology, which emphasizes the importance of natural selection in two primary roles. In the first role, selection is the generator and maintainer of the reliability of our senses and cognitive mechanisms, as well as the “fit†between those mechanisms and the world. In the second role, trial and error learning and the evolution of scientific theories are construed as selection processes.
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