Concepts and Approaches in Evolutionary Epistemology

The "Third" Evolution.- 3. The Systematic Relationship of Empirical-Evolutionary Epistemology and Meta-Empirical or Pure "Transcendental" Epistemology.- 4. Information and Knowledge.- 5. Science as an Evolutionary Information System.- 6. The "Law of Three Stages" of the Evolution of Method.- Notes.- The Ethics of Science: Compatible with the Concept of Evolutionary Epistemology?.- 1. The Traditional Viewpoint.- 2. Values.- 3. Science.- 3.1. Objective Knowledge as the Sovereign Good.- 3.2. The Guiding Thesis of this Chapter.- 4. Motivation of Science.- 5. Scientific Communities.- 6. The Ethics of Science.- 6.1 The Intuitively Conceived Code.- 6.2 The Explicit Code.- 7. Justification of the Code (Compatibility with Evolutionary Epistemology).- 8. The Ethics of Science as a Partial Code of Conduct.- 9. Extention of the Ethics of Science to Society?.- 10. Homo investigans versus Homo politicus.- 11. Threats Bearing upon the Ethics of Science.- The Metaphysical Limits of Evolutionary Epistemology.- 1. Evolutionary Epistemology is a Philosophical Proposal.- 2. As a Philosophical Theory, Evolutionary Epistemology is a Variant of Naturalistic Realism.- 3. Evolutionary Epistemology and Causality.- 4. Difficulties with the Principle of "Fulguration".- 5. By Its Claim to Truth, Evolutionary Epistemology Annuls Itself.- 6. Evolutionary Epistemology is Unable to Support Its Own Ethical Claims.- 7. Evolutionary Epistemology and Ethics.- Notes.- Selected Bibliography.- Evolutionary Causality, Theory of Games, and Evolution of Intelligence.- 1. A Model for Evolutionary Causality.- 2. The Equivalence of the Theory of Evolution and Dynamic Games.- 3. Evolutionary Epistemology, Memory, and Intelligence.- References.- Evolutionary Epistemology - A New Copernican Revolution?.- Notes.- Appendix. The Logical Basis of Evolutionary Epistemology.- 1. The Limits of the Analytical Approach.- 2. The Logical Structure of the Evolutionary Approach to Epistemological Questions.- 3. Consistency Proof for Riedl's Probability Hypothesis.- 4. The Problem of Theoretical Terms in Evolutionary Perspective.- 4.1 The Structure of Theoretical Terms.- 4.2 Why Theoretical Terms Remain a Problem.- 4.3 The Example of the Term "Homology": Towards a Nonlinear Logic?.- Notes.- Index Of Names.- Index of Subjects.