From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy
This new collection of essays will appeal to a readership that extends well beyond the frontiers of the philosophy of science. Sober shows how ideas in evolutionary biology bear in significant ways on traditional problems in philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, and metaphysics. Among the topics addressed are psychological egoism, solipsism, and the interpretation of belief and utterance, empiricism, Ockham's razor, causality, essentialism, and scientific laws.
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Professor Sober shows how the worlds of philosophical and biological inquiry are interrelated.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction11Did evolution make us psychological egoists?82Why not solipsism?283The adaptive advantage of learning and a priori prejudice504The primacy of truth-telling and the evolution of lying715Prospects for an evolutionary ethics936Contrastive empiricism1147Let's razor Ockham's razor1368The principle of the common cause1589Explanatory presupposition17510Apportioning causal responsibility18411Evolution, population thinking, and essentialism20112Temporally oriented laws233Index253
