Abstract: Evolutionary epistemology is a western epistemological thought which appeared in the sixties and seventies of the 20th century. This thought is typically represented by Gerhard Vollmer, D.T.Campbell and others. Evolutionary epistemology is first a theory of knowledge, so most of the questions it solved can be found in the modern epistemology. However, as a contemporary theory of knowledge, it is mainly based on Darwin's theory of Evolution. Evolutionary epistemology tries to understand and explain the origin and development of the human cognition structure or ability. Not only does it put a new interpretation on a system of classical epistemological problems, namely the cognition essence, the possibility of objective cognition, natural conception and so on, but also it attempts to make its own answer to numerous questions of scientific theory, such as the assessment of scientific theory, the progress and objectification of science and inductive problem. Besides, it has adequately considered the importance of language problems in epistemology. Evolutionary epistemology possesses such characteristics as historic, positivism, trans-subjectivity.
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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