Reconstructing reason and representation:

"In Reconstructing Reason and Representation, Murray Clarke offers a detailed study of the philosophical implications of evolutionary psychology. In doing so, he offers new solutions to key problems in epistemology and philosophy of mind, including misrepresentation and rationality. He proposes...

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Main Author: Clarke, Murray (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] MIT Press 2004
Series:A Bradford book
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"In Reconstructing Reason and Representation, Murray Clarke offers a detailed study of the philosophical implications of evolutionary psychology. In doing so, he offers new solutions to key problems in epistemology and philosophy of mind, including misrepresentation and rationality. He proposes a naturalistic approach to reason and representation that is informed by evolutionary psychology, and, expanding on the massive modularity thesis advanced in work by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, he argues for a modular, adapticist account of misrepresentation and knowledge. Just as the reliability of representation can be defended on the basis of an account of the proper function of cognitive modularity, misrepresentation can be explained through an appeal to the "gap theory," by noting the divergence between the proper and actual domains of cognitive modules in a massively modular mind."--BOOK JACKET.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:X, 181 S.
ISBN:0262033224

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