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Author(s): Walter B. Weimer

ISBN(s): 9783031171727, 3031171721

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Year: 2022

Language: English

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Author: Walter B. Weimer

This book argues for evolutionary epistemology and distinguishing functionality from physicality in the social sciences. It explores the implications for this approach to understanding in biology, economics, psychology and political science. Presenting a comprehensive overview of philosophical topics in the social sciences, the book emphasizes how all human cognition and behavior is characterized by functionality and complexity, and thus cannot be explained by the point predictions and exact laws found in the physical sciences. Realms of functional complexity – such as the market order in economics, the social rules of conduct, and the human CNS – require a focus on explanations of the principles involved rather than predicting exact outcomes. This requires study of the historical context to understand behavior and cognition. This approach notes that functional complexity is central to classical liberal ideas such as division of labour and knowledge, and how this is a far more powerfuland adequate account of social organization than central planning. Through comparison of these approaches, as well as its interdisciplinary scope, this book will interest both academics and students in philosophy, biology, economics, psychology and all other social sciences.

1. Preface
2. Understanding, Explaining, and Knowing
Part I. Knowledge as Classification, Judgment, and Mensuration
3. Problems of Mensuration and Experimentation
4. Problems of Measurement and Meaning in Biology
5. Psychology Cannot Quantify Its Research, Do Experiments, or Be Based on Behaviorism
6. Taking the Measure of Functional Things
7. Statistics Without Measurement
8. Economic Calculation of Value Is Not Measurement, Not Apriori, and Its Study Is Not Experimental
Part II. What can be Known, and What is Real
9. Structural Realism and Theoretical Reference
10. The Mental and Physical Still Pose Insuperable Problems
Part III. There are Inescapable Dualisms
11. Complementarity in Science, Life, and Knowledge
12. Complimentarities of Physicality and Functionality Yield Unavoidable Dualisms
Part IV. Complexity and Ambiguity
13. Understanding Complex Phenomena
14. The Resolution of Surface and Deep Structure Ambiguity
Part V. The Corruption of Knowledge: Politics and the Deflection of Science
15. Political Prescription of Behavior Ignores Epistemic Constraints
Part VI. Appendix: The Abject Failure of Traditional Philosophy to Understand Epistemology
16. Induction Is an Insuperable Problem for Traditional Philosophy
17. Rhetoric and Logic in Inference and Expectation
18. Rationality in an Evolutionary Epistemology