Evolution as a cognition process: Towards an evolutionary epistemology |
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Authors: | Franz M. Wuketits |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna, A-1010 Vienna, Austria |
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Abstract: | Recently, biologist and philosophers have been much attracted by an evolutionary view of knowledge, so-called evolutionary epistemology. Developing this insight, the present paper argues that our cognitive abilities are the outcome of organic evolution, and that, conversely, evolution itself may be described as a cognition process. Furthermore, it is argued that the key to an adequate evolutionary epistemology lies in a system-theoretical approach to evolution which grows from, but goes beyond, Darwin's theory of natural selection. |
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Keywords: | Evolutionary epistemology Darwinism systems theory |
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