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Information and meaning in evolutionary processes /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Information and meaning in evolutionary processes // William F. Harms.
remainder title:	Information & Meaning in Evolutionary Processes
Author:	Harms, William F.,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Knowledge, Theory of. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511498473
ISBN:	9780511498473 (ebook)

Information and meaning in evolutionary processes /
Harms, William F.,

Information and meaning in evolutionary processes /Information & Meaning in Evolutionary ProcessesWilliam F. Harms. - 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology. - Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Generalizing Evolutionary Theory: -- Replicator theories -- Ontologies of evolution and cultural transmission -- Modeling Information Flow in Evolutionary Processes -- Population dynamics -- Information theory -- Selection as an information transfer process -- Multi-level information transfer -- Information in internal states -- Meaning Conventions and Normativity -- Primitive content -- Is and ought.

This book is intended to help transform epistemology - the traditional study of knowledge - into a rigorous discipline by removing conceptual roadblocks and developing formal tools required for a fully naturalized epistemology. The evolutionary approach which Harms favours begins with the common observation that if our senses and reasoning were not reliable, then natural selection would have eliminated them long ago. The challenge for some time has been how to transform these informal musings about evolutionary epistemology into a rigorous theoretical discipline capable of complementing current scientific studies of the evolution of cognition with a philosophically defensible account of meaning and justification.

ISBN: 9780511498473 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

554789
Knowledge, Theory of.

LC Class. No.: BD177 / .H37 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 121

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