Professor Sober shows how the worlds of philosophical and biological inquiry are interrelated.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor of Philosophy and William F. Vilas Research Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison where he has taught since 1974. His research is in philosophy of science, especially in the philosophy of evolutionary biology. Sober's books include The Nature of Selection - Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus (1984), Reconstructing the Past - Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference (1988), Philosophy of Biology (1993), From a Biological Point of View - Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy (1994), and Unto Others - The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (1998), coauthored with David Sloan Wilson.
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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.
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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