Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture

Boer, Bart de

doi:10.1007/1-4020-3395-8

2006

DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3395-8

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Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture

Bart de Boer¹

Abstract: PART 4. Evolutionary epistemology and modelling Computer modelling as a tool for understanding language evolution Bart de Boer Simulating the syntax and semantics of linguistic constructions about time Joachim De Beule Evolutionary game-theoretic semantics and its foundational status Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen Towards a quantum evolutionary scheme: Violating Bell's inequalities in language

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Biosemiotics and Applied Evolutionary Epistemology: A Comparison

Facoetti

Gontier

2021

Interdisciplinary Evolution Research

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Both biosemiotics and evolutionary epistemology are concerned with how knowledge evolves. (Applied) Evolutionary Epistemology thereby focuses on identifying the units, levels, and mechanisms or processes that underlie the evolutionary development of knowing and knowledge, while biosemiotics places emphasis on the study of how signs underlie the development of meaning. We compare the two schools of thought and analyze how in delineating their research program, biosemiotics runs into several problems that are overcome by evolutionary epistemologists. For one, by emphasizing signs, biosemiotics needs to delineate a semiotic threshold, which is a problem not encountered by evolutionary epistemologists. Instead, the latter recognizes that all organisms are knowers that evolve knowledge, which they recognize to extend toward phenomena produced by organisms such as behavior, cognition, language, culture, science, and technology. Secondly, biosemiotics attempts at continuing adaptationist notions on how organisms relate to their environment, while especially Applied Evolutionary Epistemology comes to redefine the nature of the organism-environment relationship in such a way that it recognizes the spatiotemporal boundedness of existence, which in turn makes adaptationist accounts obsolete.

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Biosemiotics and Applied Evolutionary Epistemology: A Comparison

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Gontier

2021

Interdisciplinary Evolution Research

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Agentology: Crosspollination of Science and Philosophy

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Tønnessen

2021

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Psychic Unity

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Gontier

2020

Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science

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Cognitive universals; Human nature; Human universals Definition The "psychic unity" idea denotes the existence of a set of psychological and cognitive capacities universally shared by human beings and grounded in biological equality. The Philosophical Origins of the "Psychic Unity" Idea Plato (428/427-348/347 BC) and Aristotle (384-322 BC) are among the first to argue that all beings have an essence that makes them into

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