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Datum
2015Typ
- Book Chapter
ETH Bibliographie
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Abstract
Starting with an overview of the history of the debate about the naturalisability of the theories of human action and cognition, the following will investigate the generalisability of Darwin’s evolutionary theory within philosophical cosmology, dialectical materialism and the process metaphysics of pragmatism. Evolutionary theory is shown to have given rise to mutually exclusive philosophies of mind, according to which the continuity of living beings is either proof that everything which lives must also be endowed with some form of mental internality (pan-psychism), or that the mind has emerged as something genuinely new in the development of the living being (emergentism). Emergentism is the common philosophical generalisation of evolutionary theory dominating the theory of mind at present. Finally, the focus turns to the relevance of biology, which, since Darwin, has to be labelled as an historical discipline of the natural sciences and has led to a new genealogical paradigm of epistemology within anti-essentialist philosophy. Mehr anzeigen
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publishedHerausgeber(in)
Buchtitel
Epitemological Dimensions of Evolutionary PsychologySeiten / Artikelnummer
Verlag
SpringerThema
Naturalism; Pan-psychism; Materialism; Pragmatism; EmergentismOrganisationseinheit
03665 - Hampe, Michael / Hampe, Michael
ETH Bibliographie
yes
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