Treatise on Basic Philosophy

of Epistemology III.- 3. Life Science: From Biology to Psychology.- 1. Life and its Study.- 1.1. Life.- 1.2. Biology.- 2. Two Classics.- 2.1. Teleology.- 2.2. Systematics.- 3. Two Moderns.- 3.1. Genetics.- 3.2. Evolution.- 4. Brain and Mind.- 4.1. Neuroscience.- 4.2. Neuropsychology.- 5. Strife Over Mind.- 5.1. Alternative Approaches.- 5.2. Types of Psychological Explanation.- 6. From Biology to Sociology.- 6.1. Social Psychology.- 6.2. Sociobiology.- 7. Concluding Remarks.- 4. Social Science: From Anthropology to History.- 1. Society and its Study.- 1.1 Society.- 1.2 Social Science.- 2. Anthropology.- 2.1 The Basic Social Science.- 2.2 Explanation in Anthropology.- 3. Linguistics.- 3.1 Language.- 3.2 Linguistics.- 4. Sociology and Politology.- 4.1 Sociology.- 4.2 Politology.- 5. Economics.- 5.1 Referents and Regularities.- 5.2 Theory and Reality.- 6. History.- 6.1 The Strands and Driving Forces of History.- 6.2 The Historian's Craft.- 7. Concluding Remarks.- 5. Technology: from Engineering to Decision Theory.- 1. Generalities.- 1.1 Artifact.- 1.2 Technology.- 2. Classical Technologies.- 2.1 Engineering.- 2.2 Technologies of Life and Mind.- 3. Information Technology.- 3.1 The Information Revolution.- 3.2 Artificial Intelligence.- 4. Sociotechnology.- 4.1 Management Science.- 4.2 Social Engineering.- 5. General Technology.- 5.1 Systems Theory.- 5.2 Decision Theory.- 6. Technology in Society.- 6.1 The Social Matrix.- 6.2 Values and Morals.- 7. Concluding Remarks.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.