Towards... an Evolutionary Philosophy page, on Wikipedia!
Towards... an Evolutionary Philosophy page, on Wikipedia !
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So, in thinking about, this topic, in general:
Joining a Circle of Evolutionary Philosophers...
(...which, I have joined)
I got to thinking...
Hey! - Why isn't there a Wikipedia page, on:
Evolutionary Philosophy
...?
As, I for one, sure could have used, reading one, when I was doing my (2016) PhD...! (Which resulted in: Ev Cult.)
I mean, just look at this empirical fact:
Currently, there's no page on Wikipedia on: Evolutionary Philosophy !
‽
...As of right now, (i.e., 30th March, 02022), there is a Wikipedia page,
on:
" List of Philosophies " ...
But... when you look closely at the E's on there, there's only this list:
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`E
Ecocentrism - Ecumenism - Egalitarianism - Egocentrism - Egoism - Eliminative materialism - Emotivism - Empiricism - Ephesian school - Epiphenomenalism - Epicureanism - Epistemological nihilism - Epistemology - Esotericism - Essentialism - Ethics - Eternalism - Eudaimonism - Existentialism - Externalism'
Source: `List of Philosophies'
(on Wikipedia, online, as at: 30th March 02022)
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...So, I ask you...
Where's... Evolutionary Philosophy ... ???
( ...on: Wikipedia ??? )
...‽
Hey, and, when a group of scholars have their first official international conference (namely, when a discrete academic field of scholars emerges, and coalesces into a unit, for a domain in culture), it looks like, this...
Image Source: The Tree of Culture, on, The StoryAlity PhD weblog
So ...Someone should convene a First International Conference on Evolutionary Philosophy...
(...Just sayin'.)
But so anyway, with that - er - gap in the literature in mind (i.e., The problem of: no Wikipedia page existing on Evolutionary Philosophy, as yet)...
...against my better judgment, here is my: very rough, very rushed, preliminary, not-ready-to-show-yet, but-here-it-is-anyway, first attempt, at the text of such a proposed, Wikipedia page...
Eeep...? I really shouldn't be showing you this...?
This is not even a "First Draft"...!
This is: not even yet, a Preliminary Sketch, of a Concept, of an Idea, of a Notion, for, a First Draft...
Yet, here it is...!
(Am sure, you could do much better...? Well; unless, for some reason, you can't...? ...But heck, surely, somebody should publish such a page, on Wikipedia...? ...People need to know this stuff-!!!)
...Drum roll...
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A not-ready-to-show draft of a potential Wikipedia entry for the topic: `Evolutionary Philosophy’
Whipped up by: JTV
First (crummy) draft, 28th March 02020
...Maybe even, something for the PC Ev Phil Circle to: chew on / tear to shreds / rewrite / ignore ?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (except that this hasn't been published, yet. It's: just a draft.)
Evolutionary philosophy is a branch and tradition of philosophy (or, a cultural subdomain, within the larger cultural domain of philosophy) grounded in and informed by evolutionary science.
It is distinct from continental philosophy and analytical philosophy. However, Evolutionary Philosophy has many overlaps with Systems Philosophy, as evolutionary algorithms operate on units of biology and on units of culture, and evolution (change over time) occurs within (eco)systems.
Crucially, contemporary evolutionary philosophy avoids `Social Spencerism’ (which is often mistakenly called Social Darwinism).
Central figures in the historical development of evolutionary philosophy include Charles Darwin, Elliot Sober, Michael Ruse, Daniel C Dennett, Edward O Wilson, David Sloan Wilson, Michael Bradie, Nathalie Gontier, Ed Gibney, and Andy Norman. Other important figures in its historical development include Karl Popper. Donald T Campbell, Konrad Lorenz, Stephen Toulmin, Peter Munz, Dennis Dutton, Joseph Carroll, Brian Boyd, Steven Pinker, Jon Gottschall, Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, and Ellen Dissanayake.
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Evolutionary scientific theory (and thus also, Evolutionary Philosophy) is customarily dated to Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871),and Darwin’s many other works.
Since 1859, evolutionary science subsequently underwent the Modern Synthesis, and is currently undergoing the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.
`Social Spencerism’ was a misapplication of Darwin’s ideas resulting from Spencer’s problematic ethics. Daniel C Dennett’s best-selling Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (1995) created a resurgence of interest in evolutionary philosophy.
[edit]The term `Evolutionary Epistemology’ dates to Donald T Campbell’s 1974 essay Evolutionary Epistemology, in The Philosophy of Karl Popper.Creativity science and genius scholar Dean Keith Simonton has also published extensively on evolutionary epistemology.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_epistemology
[edit]William S. Cooper (2001) has published on logic as a branch of biology. Andy Norman (2021) has published on cognitive immunity. In 2013 John Mayfield published The Engine of Complexity: Evolution as Computation.
See also: the evolutionary logic page on Wikipedia, except there isn’t one, yet
[edit]John Dupre has published on the metaphysics of evolution in Interface Focus (2017).
See also: the evolutionary metaphysics page on Wikipedia, except there isn’t one, yet
[edit]Michael Bradie has published on evolutionary ethics. David Sloan Wilson’s (2019) nonfiction book This View of Lifeand satirical novel Atlas Hugged (2021) also examines evolutionary ethics.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_ethics
[edit]Science, arts and humanities scholars on evolutionary aesthetics include Edward O Wilson,Dennis Dutton, Joseph Carroll, Brian Boyd, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Gottschall,Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, and Ellen Dissanayake.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_aesthetics
[edit]Karl Popper’s (1945) book The Open Society and its Enemies presents evolutionary political philosophy, as does David Sloan Wilson’s (2019) This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution.The Handbook of Biology and Politics (2017) examines biopolitics.
See also: the evolutionary political philosophy page on Wikipedia, except there isn’t one, yet
[edit]Nathalie Gontier is founder and director of AppEEL, the Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, an international group of scholars working in Applied Evolutionary Epistemology.In the 2012 article Applied Evolutionary Epistemology: A new methodology to enhance interdisciplinary research between the life and human sciences, Gontier explains how AEE’s research program aims to identify: `the units, levels, and mechanisms of biological and sociocultural evolution’ (Gontier, 2012, p. 35). A co-authored (2021) article with Michael Bradie examines `Evolutionary Epistemology: Two research avenues, three schools, and a single and shared agenda’.
See also: the applied evolutionary epistemology page on Wikipedia, except there isn’t one, yet
Within Applied Evolutionary Epistemology, in his 2016 PhD dissertationon cultural evolution in the domain of cinema, in 2016,2017,2018,2019,and 2020, the Evolutionary Culturology scholar J T Velikovsky of the Newcastle School of Creativitypublished on the units, levels, evolutionary mechanisms (evolutionary algorithms), and three universal laws of both biology and culture.
On this (Evolutionary Culturology) view, the structure of the unit of culture (including, entire domains in culture, and all of culture) is the fractal HOLON/parton; and is also the structure (and three laws) of units in physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and all domains of knowledge (i.e., culture).
As a universal set of (1) units, (2) scale-levels, (3) evolutionary algorithms, and (4) three laws, the scientific meta-paradigm Evolutionary Culturology provides a solution to E O Wilson’s (1998) goal of consilience, the unity (vertical integration) of knowledge.The scientific meta-paradigm of Evolutionary Culturology also has many implications for Evolutionary Philosophy.
[edit]Evolutionary scholars of the arts include Joseph Carroll, Brian Boyd, Dennis Dutton, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Gottschall, Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, and Ellen Dissanayake. Creativity scientist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s sociocultural systems model of creativity is explicitly a Darwinian evolutionary model of cultural change in all domains in culture.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinian_literary_studies
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· Popper, K. R., & Schilpp, P. A. (1974). The Philosophy of Karl Popper (1st ed.). Open Court.
· Popper, K. R. (1978). Three Worlds. University of Utah.
· Munz, Peter, 1993, Philosophical Darwinism: On the Origin of Knowledge by Means of Natural Selection. Routledge.
· Sober, E. (1993). Philosophy of Biology. Westview Press.
· Dennett, D. C. (1995). Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Simon & Schuster.
· Hull, D. L., & Ruse, M. (1998). The Philosophy of Biology. Oxford University Press.
· Ruse, M. (1998). Taking Darwin Seriously: A naturalistic approach to philosophy. Prometheus Books.
· Popper, K. R. (1999). All Life is Problem Solving. Routledge.
· Chaisson, E. (2001). Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature. Harvard University Press.
· Hösle, V., & Illies, C. (Eds.). (2005). Darwinism & Philosophy. University of Notre Dame Press.
· Gontier, N., Bendegam, J. P. v., & Aerts, D. (Eds.). (2006). Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture: A Non-Adaptationist, Systems-Theoretical Approach. Springer.
· Hull, D. L., & Ruse, M. (2007). The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology. Cambridge University Press.
· Wilson, D. S. (2007). Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's theory can change the way we think about our lives. Delacorte Press.
· Rosenberg, A., & McShea, D. W. (2008). Philosophy of Biology: A contemporary introduction. Routledge.
· Ruse, M. (2009). Philosophy after Darwin: Classic and contemporary readings. Princeton University Press.
· Hodge, M. J. S., & Radick, G. (2009). The Cambridge Companion to Darwin(2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
· Rosenberg, A., & Arp, R. (2010). Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology. Wiley-Blackwell.
· Dutton, D. (2010). The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution. Oxford University Press.
· Boyd, B., Carroll, J., & Gottschall, J. (2010). Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader. Columbia University Press.
· Gibney, E. (2012). Evolutionary Philosophy. Kindle.
· Kuhse, H., Schüklenk, U., & Singer, P. (2015). Bioethics: An Anthology(Third ed.). John Wiley & Sons.
· Smith, D. L. (Ed.). (2016). How Biology shapes Philosophy: New foundations for naturalism. Cambridge University Press.
· Carroll, J., McAdams, D. P., & Wilson, E. O. (Eds.). (2016). Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences. Oxford University Press.
· Tegmark, M. (2017). Life 3.0: Being human in the age of artificial intelligence(First ed.). Allen Lane.
· Dennett, D. C. (2017). From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds(First Edition. ed.). W. W. Norton & Company.
· Lovelock, J. (2019). Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence. Penguin.
· Wilson, D. S. (2019). This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution(First ed.). Pantheon.
· Norman, A. (2021). Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think. Harper Wave.
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· Darwin Online at Darwin Online
· Evolutionary Epistemology at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
· Evolutionary Epistemology at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
· The Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab at AppEEL
· Evolutionary Ethics at Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
· Evolutionary Philosophy weblog at EvPhil
· Andy Norman, public philosopher at AndyNorman.org
· This View of Life online magazine
· Evolutionary Culturology weblog
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· Laszlo, E. (1972). Introduction to Systems Philosophy: Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought. Gordon and Breach.
Unsolved problems in Evolutionary Philosophy [edit]
See also: List of Unsolved Problems in Philosophy
How to make all other `schools' of Philosophy understand: They're pointless?
How to wipe Po-Mo (and, science denial, in general) off the face (and mind) of the Earth? (...see: The EthiSizer)
[edit]Citations
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2016.0148
Notes
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
See: Laszlo, E. (1972). Introduction to Systems Philosophy: Toward a New Paradigm of Contemporary Thought. Gordon and Breach.
Such as: (organic molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms, populations, species, superorganisms)
Such as, in languages, on units such as: letters, morphemes, words, phrases, clauses, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, articles, books, and in other domains of culture: science, the arts, mechanical inventions)
See: https://evolutionary-culturology.blogspot.com/2017/01/evolutionary-culturology-index.html
See: Wilson, D. S. (2019). This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution (First ed.). Pantheon.
See: Darwin, C. (1859). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle For Life. J. Murray.
See: Darwin, C. (1871). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. D. Appleton and company.
See also: http://darwin-online.org.uk/
See: Wilson, D. S. (2019). This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution (First ed.). Pantheon.
See: Dennett, D. C. (1995). Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Simon & Schuster.
See: Campbell, D. T. (1974). Evolutionary Epistemology. In P. A. Schilpp (Ed.), The Philosophy of Karl Popper (Vol. 1, pp. 413-459). La Salle.
See: https://simonton.faculty.ucdavis.edu/
See: Cooper, W. S. (2001). The Evolution of Reason: Logic as a branch of biology. Cambridge University Press.
See: Norman, A. (2021). Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think Harper Wave.
See: Mayfield, J. E. (2013). The Engine of Complexity: Evolution as Computation. Columbia University Press.
See: Dupre, J. (2017). The metaphysics of evolution. Interface Focus, 7(20160148). https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10....
Bradie, M. (1994). The Secret Chain: Evolution and Ethics. State University of New York Press. , Bradie, M. (2011). The Moral Life of Animals. In T. L. Beauchamp & R. G. Frey (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics. Oxford University Press. , Bradie, M. (2014). The Moral Lives of Animals. Kairos: Journal of Philosophy & Science, 9, 14-27.
See: Wilson, D. S. (2019). This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution (First ed.). Pantheon.
See: Wilson, D. S. (2020). Atlas Hugged. Redwood Publishing, LLC.
See: Wilson, E. O. (1998). Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1st ed.). Knopf: Distributed by Random House.
See: Dutton, D. (2010). The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution. Oxford University Press.
See: Carroll, J. (1995). Evolution and Literary Theory. University of Missouri Press.
See: Boyd, B. (2009). On The Origin Of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
See: Gottschall, J. (2012). The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
See: Dissanayake, E. (2000). Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began. University of Washington Press.
See: Popper, K. R. (1945). The Open Society and its Enemies. G. Routledge & Sons.
See: Wilson, D. S. (2019). This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution (First ed.). Pantheon.
See: Peterson, S. A., & Somit, A. (Eds.). (2017). Handbook of Biology and Politics. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
See: https://sites.google.com/view/appeel/home
See: Gontier, N., & Bradie, M. (2021). Evolutionary Epistemology: Two research avenues, three schools, and a single and shared agenda. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 52, 197-209. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.10...
Velikovsky, J. T. (2016a). `Communication, Creativity and Consilience in Cinema: A comparative study of the top 20 Return-on-Investment (RoI) Movies and the Doxa of Screenwriting’[University of Newcastle, PhD]. Newcastle, Australia. https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/a...
Velikovsky, J. T. (2016b). The HOLON/parton Theory of the Unit of Culture (or the Meme, and Narreme): In Science, Media, Entertainment and the Arts. In A. Connor & S. Marks (Eds.), Creative Technologies for Multidisciplinary Applications (pp. 208-246). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-00...
Velikovsky, J. T. (2017). The HOLON/parton Structure of the Meme, or, The Unit Of Culture. In M. Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition (pp. 4666-4678). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-22...
Velikovsky, J. T. (2018). The HOLON/parton Theory of the Unit of Culture (or the Meme, and Narreme): In Science, Media, Entertainment, and the Arts. In IRMA (Ed.), Technology Adoption and Social Issues: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1590-1627). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-52...
Velikovsky, J. T. (2019). The HOLON/parton Structure of the Meme, or The Unit of Culture. In D. B. A. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed.), Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Simulation, and Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 795-811). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-73...
Velikovsky, J. T. (2020). Technology: Memes (Units of Culture). In M. A. Runco & S. R. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Creativity (3rd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 585-604). Elsevier, Academic Press. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.10...
See: https://evolutionary-culturology.blogspot.com/2017/01/evolutionary-culturology-index.html
See: https://storyality.wordpress.com/2020/06/07/storyality166-the-newcastle-school-of-creativity/
See: Wilson, E. O. (1998). Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1st ed.). Knopf: Distributed by Random House.
A (non-exhaustive) list of evolutionary Masters and PhD dissertations was compiled by J T Velikovsky at: https://storyality.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/storyality-97-biocultural-dissertations/
See: Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2015). The Systems Model of Creativity: The Collected Works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Springer.
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And that is, the:
...End, of: this (crummy), rough, rushed,
Preliminary Sketch
of a Concept of an Idea of a Notion for, a First Draft. Of: a page on Wikipedia, for:
Evolutionary Philosophy.
(And I may well regret even showing anyone this, in such a nascent form... But, it's meant to inspire you. Or, someone.)
Also it may be a horrorshow, getting it published?
...Maybe, the Wikipedia editors won't like it...?
...Who knows?
...Sometimes, you've just gotta "suck it and see"...
Namely, Do Science...!
Step (1) - Expectation (or, Theory, or Hypothesis) -- and
Step (2) - Experiment - via Trial, and Error-Correction...
So, who knows what will happen.
Maybe, the world will blow up, tomorrow...?
(...see for example, that current war in Ukraine; not good... By the way, a suggested solution to all that is, The EthiSizer, but, whatever.)
And also by the way, here's not the official logo, for the Ev Phil Circle...
(...I just made it up... I just like: logos, and fractals.)
Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.
You have been reading / viewing a blog-post by:
Dr J T Velikovsky Ph.D
Evolutionary Culturologist
and/or
(Velikovsky of Newcastle)
Information Scientist & Systems Scientist & AI Researcher & Enthusiast & Evolutionary Culturologist & Filmmaker & Writer & Artist & Actor & Muso & Rugged Frontiersman & Random Guy
(and, also The StoryAlity Guy)
aka
(or, The Artist formally known as Dr J T Velikovsky)
More stuff:
Transmedia Blog: On Writering
IMDb (Movies, Videogames):
Music: Texas Radio & Z-S
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/joeteevee (over 100 videos, some are even: good)
Academia page: https://newcastle-au.academia.edu/JTVelikovsky
ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jt_Velikovsky
My ouvre... etc etc.
Online Multimedia Showreel...
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-066X
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PS: ...there is, this page, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_selection
and Ev Cult has quite a LOT to say (scientifically) about: that.
Namely:
The structure of the unit of culture is the fractal HOLON/parton.
(But - maybe it's not important...?)
:)
