Category Archives: biology

Knowledge and Biology

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Alan Forrester

Many people I have discussed Popper with seem confused by Popper tying together evolution and epistemology in his book Objective Knowledge and other places. Evolution, they say, is all about biology and epistemology is about what people think. I’m going to try to clear up this confusion. Continue reading →

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Review: Popper, Otto Selz and the Rise of Evolutionary Epistemology by Michel ter Hark

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Alan Forrester

“Popper, Otto Selz and the Rise of Evolutionary Epistemology” by Michel ter Hark is historically interesting and philosophically provocative. Continue reading →

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E. H. Gombrich on perception

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Matt

Even our natural view of the world is theoretical … From Art and Illusion by E. H. Gombrich: Just as a tune remains the same whatever the key it is played in, so we respond to light intervals, to what … Continue reading →

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