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Title: Reason, Regulation, and Realism: Toward a Regulatory Systems Theory of Reason and Evolutionary Epistemology (Suny Series in Philosophy and Biology) by Clifford A. Hooker ISBN: 0-7914-2262-3 Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Pub. Date: March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95

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Summary: Philosophically rich expositon of evolutionary epistemology
Comment: This book tackles an increasingly important problem in science and philosophy; namely, how our evolutionary origins can account for our knowledge gathering strategies that uncover our evolutionary origins. It is a thorough exposition of Popper and Piaget's view of cognitive development. It also attmepts to explain how Science itself is a perfectly natural outcome of the cognitive processes we developed in our early ecological environments. All the while Hooker has his eye on explaining and justifying a theory of rationality within a realist world-view. Ultimately, however, he fails to overcome the antinomies of reason and it's relation to the ecological environment and the temporal and social development that make it possible. A dynamic world cannot yield an atemporal/static repertoire of cognitive abilities which are valid in all possible cognitive, social and physical environments. Nevertheless his book is the boldest attempt yet to create a naturalistic and evolutionary account of reason and well worth the effort to learn from.