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I found this on the Cambridge Uni Press site:
The Evolution of Reason
Logic as a Branch of Biology
William S. Cooper
University of California, Berkeley
Price: TBA
Bindings: Hardback
Date of Publication: 6/4/2001
Bibliographic Description:
2001 228 x 152 mm 224pp 28 line diagrams
ISBN: 0521791960
Status: Forthcoming
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
Category: Academic
Subject: Philosophy of science
The formal systems of logic have ordinarily been regarded as independent
of biology, but recent developments in evolutionary theory suggest that
biology and logic may be intimately interrelated. Cooper outlines a
theory of rationality in which logical law emerges as an intrinsic
aspect of evolutionary biology. He examines the connections between
logic and evolutionary biology and illustrates how logical rules are
derived directly from evolutionary principles, and therefore have no
independent status of their own. This biological perspective on logic,
though unorthodox, could change traditional ideas about the reasoning process.
Contents 1. The biology of logic; 2. The evolutionary derivation of
life-history strategy theory; 3. The evolutionary derivation of decision
logic; 4. The evolutionary derivation of inductive logic (part I); 5.
The evolutionary derivation of deductive logic; 6. The evolutionary
derivation of inductive logic (part II); 7. The evolutionary derivation
of mathematics; 8. Broadening the evolutionary base of classical logic;
9. The evolutionary derivation of nonclassical logic; 10. Radical
reductionism in logic; 11. Toward a unified scienc
Key Features
Shows how logic relates to evolutionary theory
Provides a significant contribution to evolutionary epistemology
Derives the usual laws of logic from evolutionary considerations alone
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