From a Biological Point of View : Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy

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ISBN: 9780521477536 | 0521477530
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/30/1994

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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. Among the topics addressed are psychological egoism, solipsism, and the interpretation of belief and utterance, empiricism, Ockham's razor, causality, essentialism, and scientific laws.

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Introduction
1. Did evolution make us psychological egoists?
2. Why not solipsism?
3. The adaptive advantage of learning and a priori prejudice
4. The primacy of truth-telling and the evolution of lying
5. Prospects for an evolutionary ethics
6. Contrastive empiricism
7. Let's razor Ockham's razor
8. The principle of the common cause
9. Explanatory presupposition
10. Apportioning casual responsibility
11. Evolution, population thinking, and essentialism
12. Temporally oriented laws
Index.

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From a Biological Point of View : Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy

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