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Paperback | 6 February 1995

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Elliott Sober is one of the leading philosophers of science and is a former winner of the Lakatos Prize, the major award in the field. 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. Amongst the topics addressed are psychological egoism, solipsism, and the interpretation of belief and utterance, empiricism, Ockham's razor, causality, essentialism, and scientific laws. The collection will prove invaluable to a wide range of philosophers, primarily those working in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind, and epistemology.

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"The arguments in each essay are cogent and presented in a clear style...For those biologists interested in these basic issues (and that should be most of us!) and with an adequate background this book offers rich material." Patrick W. Colgan, The Canadian Field-Naturalist

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Non-Fiction Science Biology, Life Sciences Life Sciences in General Evolution Science in General Philosophy of Science Philosophy Social & Political Philosophy History of Western Philosophy

Introduction
Did evolution make us psychological egoists?
Why not solipsism?
The adaptive advantage of learning and a priori prejudice
The primacy of truth-telling and the evolution of lying
Prospects for an evolutionary ethics
Contrastive empiricism
Let's razor Ockham's razor
The principle of the common cause
Explanatory presupposition
Apportioning casual responsibility
Evolution, population thinking, and essentialism
Temporally oriented laws
Index
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