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Recently, biologist and philosophers have been much attracted by an evolutionary view of knowledge, so-called evolutionary epistemology. Developing this insight, the present paper argues that our cognitive abilities are the outcome of organic evolution, and that, conversely, evolution itself may be described as a cognition process. Furthermore, it is argued that the key to an adequate evolutionary epistemology lies in a system-theoretical approach to evolution which grows from, but goes beyond, Darwin's theory of natural selection.
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Wuketits, F.M. Evolution as a cognition process: Towards an evolutionary epistemology. Biol Philos 1, 191–206 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142901
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