Selection Theory and Social Construction

Cecilia Heyes is a Reader in Psychology at University College London and coeditor (with Ludwig Huber) of The Evolution of Cognition. David L. Hull is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and the author of many books, including most recently Science and Selection: Essays on Biological Evolution and the Philosophy of Science.

• 1. IntroductionCecilia Heyes 2. Universal Selection Theory and the Complementarity of Different Types of Blind Variation and Selective RetentionGary A. Cziko 3. The Metaphysical Foundation of Campbell's Selectionist EpistemologyMichael Bradie 4. Critical Hypothetical NaturalismRonald N. Giere 5. On Being a Philosophical NaturalistMichael Ruse 6. Nested Hierarchies of Vicarious SelectorsKyung-Man Kim 7. Social Constructions and EvolutionHenry Plotkin 8. Natural Tensions: Realism and ContructivismLinnda R. Caporael 9. In Search of Epistemological WarrantDavid L. Hull References Contributors Index

"The contributors to this volume are distinguished in their fields, all had close professional and personal connections with Donald Campbell, and they represent the breadth of fields in which Campbell had influence." — Bonnie Paller, California State University, Northridge"This book will be of interest to evolutionary epistemologists, social epistemologists, and naturalists." — Robert J. Richards, author of The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory