The Developing Approaches to Evolutionary Epistemology: An Historical Perspective

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10.2991/icsshe-17.2017.96How to use a DOI?

Keywords

evolutionary epistemology, adaptationism, non-adaptationism, organism, environment

Abstract

Evolutionary epistemology has been developed in various historical stages that responds to different approaches, namely, adaptationism, non-adaptationism and interactionism. This paper gives an account of three approaches in terms of the hot debate on confirming the mechanism of biological evolution and elucidates why these approaches have been developed in different contexts. It is suggested that the development of evolutionary epistemology should be of implications on the studies of epistemology.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qiaohua Ren
AU  - Jingzhu Zhang
PY  - 2017/09
DA  - 2017/09
TI  - The Developing Approaches to Evolutionary Epistemology: An Historical Perspective
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 3rd International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 383
EP  - 386
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsshe-17.2017.96
DO  - 10.2991/icsshe-17.2017.96
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