From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary by Elliott Sober

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By Elliott Sober

Elliott Sober is among the top philosophers of technological know-how and is a former winner of the Lakatos Prize, the key award within the box. This new choice of essays will entice a readership that extends way past the frontiers of the philosophy of technological know-how. Sober exhibits how principles in evolutionary biology undergo in major methods on conventional difficulties in philosophy of brain and language, epistemology, and metaphysics. among the subjects addressed are mental egoism, solipsism, and the translation of trust and utterance, empiricism, Ockham's razor, causality, essentialism, and clinical legislation. the gathering will turn out necessary to a variety of philosophers, basically these operating within the philosophy of technological know-how, the philosophy of brain, and epistemology.

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