Darwin's “strange inversion of reasoning”

D Dennett - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection unifies the world of physics with the world of
meaning and purpose by proposing a deeply counterintuitive “inversion of …

[图书][B] Philosophical Darwinism: On the origin of knowledge by means of natural selection

P Munz - 2002 - taylorfrancis.com
Philosophers have not taken the evolution of human beings seriously enough. If they did,
argues Peter Munz, many long standing philosophical problems would be resolved. One of …

[图书][B] Darwin machines and the nature of knowledge

H Plotkin - 1997 - books.google.com
Learn and survive. Behind this simple equation lies a revolution in the study of knowledge,
which has left the halls of philosophy for the labs of science. This book offers a cogent …

[图书][B] Intelligent thought: Science versus the intelligent design movement

J Brockman - 2006 - books.google.com
Evolutionary science lies at the heart of a modern understanding of the natural world.
Darwin's theory has withstood 150 years of scientific scrutiny, and today it not only explains …

Foresight in insight? A Darwinian answer

DK Simonton - 1994 - direct.mit.edu
“I can remember the very spot on the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution
occurred to me"(quoted in F. Darwin, 1892/1958, p. 43). So recollected Charles Darwin …

Getting to Darwin: Obstacles to accepting evolution by natural selection

P Thagard, S Findlay - Science & Education, 2010 - Springer
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is central to modern biology, but is resisted
by many people. This paper discusses the major psychological obstacles to accepting …

Darwin v. intelligent design (again)

HA Orr - Think, 2005 - cambridge.org
Orr argues that the latest attack on evolution is cleverly argued, biologically informed—and
wrong. This is his review of Behe's book, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to …

[图书][B] Why think?: evolution and the rational mind

R De Sousa - 2007 - books.google.com
In a world where natural selection has shaped adaptations of astonishing ingenuity, what is
the scope and unique power of rational thinking? In this short but wide-ranging book …

[图书][B] No free lunch: Why specified complexity cannot be purchased without intelligence

WA Dembski - 2006 - books.google.com
Darwin's greatest accomplishment was to show how life might be explained as the result of
natural selection. But does Darwin's theory mean that life was unintended? William A …

Darwin's analogy between artificial and natural selection: how does it go?

SG Sterrett - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C …, 2002 - Elsevier
The analogy Darwin drew between artificial and natural selection in On the Origin of Species
has a detailed structure that has not been appreciated. In Darwin's analogy, the kind of …