{"product_id":"information-and-meaning-in-evolutionary-processes-paperback-9780521039215","title":"Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521039215","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eInformation and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book develops the tools necessary to transform the philosophical study of knowledge into a proper scientific discipline.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam F. Harms (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521039215, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 August 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages, 34 b\/w illus.  8 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.428 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This book contains original insights about information transmission and the evolution of meaning. After you read Part III the is\/ought question will never look the same.' Brian Skyrms, University of California, Irvine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book is intended to help transform epistemology - the traditional study of knowledge - into a rigorous discipline by removing conceptual roadblocks and developing formal tools required for a fully naturalized epistemology. The evolutionary approach which Harms favours begins with the common observation that if our senses and reasoning were not reliable, then natural selection would have eliminated them long ago. The challenge for some time has been how to transform these informal musings about evolutionary epistemology into a rigorous theoretical discipline capable of complementing current scientific studies of the evolution of cognition with a philosophically defensible account of meaning and justification.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Generalizing Evolutionary Theory: 1. Replicator theories\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ontologies of evolution and cultural transmission\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Modeling Information Flow in Evolutionary Processes: 3. Population dynamics\u003cbr\u003e 4. Information theory\u003cbr\u003e 5. Selection as an information-transfer process\u003cbr\u003e 6. Multilevel information transfer\u003cbr\u003e 7. Information in internal states\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Meaning Conventions and Normativity: 8. Primitive content\u003cbr\u003e 9. Is and ought\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Paley's Watch and other stories\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: proof of information gain under frequency-independent discrete replicator dynamics for population of n types\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20of%20science%20%5BPDA%5D%22\"\u003ePDA\u003c\/a\u003e], Philosophy: epistemology \u0026amp; theory of knowledge [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy: epistemology \u0026amp; theory of knowledge\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy:%20epistemology%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20of%20knowledge%20%5BHPK%5D%22\"\u003eHPK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006249980184,"sku":"9780521039215","price":38.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521039215i_7624e4ee-3122-4bd2-ac07-dfa8ca19d1bd.jpg?v=1694968513","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/information-and-meaning-in-evolutionary-processes-paperback-9780521039215","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}