Functional Realism

Wuketits, Franz M.

doi:10.1007/978-94-015-9620-6_2

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Organisms As Active Systems: Internal Factors In Evolution1

Reality and Realism1

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“…(Darwin, 1958: 28) Since living systems are not puppets operated by environmental strings, we also have to state that their respective cognitive apparatus is not a passive organ simply waiting for impressions they get from outside. Thus, we attain a non-adaptationist view of cognition and knowledge and a non-adaptationist version of evolutionary epistemology (see also Wuketits, 1989Wuketits, , 1997Wuketits, , 2000b which is mainly based on the following assumptions:…”

Section: Organisms As Active Systems: Internal Factors In Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is not the place to discuss realism in its many aspects and ramifications (see on this, e.g., Oeser, 1988b;Putnam, 1987). Rather, a solution of the problem of reality from the point of view of the non-adaptationist approach in evolutionary epistemology is attempted (see also Wuketits, 2000aWuketits, , 2000b. However, what follows cannot be more than a brief outline of such a solution.…”

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