From a biological point of view
Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6553351 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elliott Sober (0000-0003-3130-1263) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Pages | 255 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | From a biological point of view (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511624940 |
| ISBN | 9780511624940 |
| Open Library | OL1091465M |
| Google Books | Y8sw6KyJnpsC |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
Elliott Sober is one of the leading philosophers of science and is a former winner of the Lakatos Prize, the major award in the field. This new collection of essays will appeal to a readership that extends well beyond the frontiers of the philosophy of science. Sober shows how ideas in evolutionary biology bear in significant ways on traditional problems in philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, and metaphysics. Amongst the topics addressed are psychological egoism, solipsism, and the interpretation of belief and utterance, empiricism, Ockham's razor, causality, essentialism, and scientific laws. The collection will prove invaluable to a wide range of philosophers, primarily those working in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind, and epistemology
Biology · Empiricism · Essentialism (Philosophy · Ethics · Evolution · Knowledge · Philosophy of mind · Time · Biological Evolution · Essence (Philosophy) · Essentialism (Philosophy) · Ethics, Evolutionary · Evolutionary Ethics · Philosophy · Theory of knowledge
Making sense of heritability
Evolution, Morality and the Fabric of Society
Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure
Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus
Philosophy of Biology
Sentimental Rules
The Essential Child
Making Things Happen
Human Nature and the Limits of Science
The inherence heuristic
Why the West is Perceived as Being Unworthy of Cooperation
Knowing What To Do
Natural Selection and Distributive Explanation
Fake News and Epistemic Vice
Reconstructing William Lane Craig’s Explanation of Absolute Time Based on Mulla Sadra’s Philosophy
Neo-Ryleanism about self-understanding
Group Selection in the Evolution of Religion
Human rights at the “end of nature”
A tale of two cities
Determinants of Gender Essentialism in College Students
Philosophy of biology
The Emotional Construction of Morals
Commentary on John Dupré's Human Nature and the Limits of Science
Intellectual Honesty
Two kinds of explanatory integration in cognitive science
Toward a formal analysis of deceptive signaling
To Give a Surprise Exam, Use Game Theory
Prediction in Selectionist Evolutionary Theory
Explanatory Relevance and Contrastive Explanation
Realism and the Epistemological Significance of Inference to the Best Explanation
Modelling Reciprocal Altruism
How to Split a Theory
Structural Flaws
| Citations per year | 1.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2025 (31) |
| Highly cited | No |