Josh Levent, after listening to our podcast episodes on universal darwinism (part 1, part2), created the following diagram in an attempt to capture the basic…
Tag: Donald Campbell
Donald Campbell made the bold prediction that all expansions of knowledge will be found to require the Universal Darwinism algorithm of variation and selection. In…
In The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch claimed that no existing evolutionary algorithm has yet created knowledge. But Karl Popper and Donald Campbell beg to…
In the past I wrote about how one of my most important disagreements with David Deutsch is on the subject of what counts as knowledge…
In the 4S email group, there has been a lot of discussion about Donald Campbell’s two essays “Evolutionary Epistemology” and “Blind Variation and Selective Retention…
I’ve been writing posts on Popper’s theory of word nominalism vs word essentialism and I recently came across Donald Campbell’s attempt to summarize Popper’s theory…