From a Biological Point of View

Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy

By:

Elliott Sober

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

September 30th, 1994

Author

Elliott Sober

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

1 Tables, unspecified; 11 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

268

Series

Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology

Dimensions

160x239x20

ISBN-13

9780521477536

Product ID

2059560

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