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Author Sober, Elliott.

Title From a biological point of view : essays in evolutionary philosophy / Elliott Sober
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Description x, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology
Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
Contents 1. Did evolution make us psychological egoists? -- 2. Why not solipsism? -- 3. The adaptive advantage of learning and a priori prejudice -- 4. The primacy of truth-telling and the evolution of lying -- 5. Prospects for an evolutionary ethics -- 6. Contrastive empiricism -- 7. Let's razor Ockham's razor -- 8. The principle of the common cause -- 9. Explanatory presupposition -- 10. Apportioning causal responsibility -- 11. Evolution, population thinking, and essentialism -- 12. Temporally oriented laws
Analysis Evolution Philosophy
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Time. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94056291
Subject Empiricism.
Essentialism (Philosophy)
Biology -- Philosophy.
Ethics, Evolutionary.
Evolution.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Philosophy of mind.
Time.
LC no. 94015745
ISBN 0521471842 (hc)
0521477530 (pb)