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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2010
      September 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511624940
      9780521477536
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511624940
      Dimensions:
      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 268 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy of Science, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy of Science, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
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    Book description

    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.

    Awards

    Winner of the Lakatos Prize

    Reviews

    "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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