《Philosophical Darwinism》是1993年Routledge出版的圖書，作者是Peter Munz。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Philosophical Darwinism
- 作者：Peter Munz
- 出版社：Routledge
- 出版時間：1993年4月19日
- 頁數：264 頁
- 定價：155 美元
- 裝幀：Library Binding
- ISBN：9780415086028
內容簡介
Philosophers have not taken the evolution of human beings seriously enough. If they did, argues Peter Munz, many long standing philosophical problems would be resolved. One of philosophical concequences of biology is that all the knowledge produced in evolution is a priori , i.e., established hypothetically by chance mutation and selective retention, not by observation and intelligent induction. For organisms as embodied theories, selection is natural and for theories as disembodied organisms, it is artificial. Following Popper, the growth of knowledge is seen to be continuous from the amoeba to Einstein'. Philosophical Darwinism throws a whole new light on many contemporary debates. It has damaging implications for cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and questions attempts from within biology to reduce mental events to neural processes. More importantly, it provides a rational postmodern alternative to what the author argues are the unreasonable postmodern fashions of Kuhn, Lyotard and Rorty.
