Naturalism, tractability and the adaptive toolbox

Positivism, Naturalism, and Anti- Naturalism in the Social Sciences

heidegger.ontological attitude and naturalism

Bounded Rationality : The Adaptive Toolbox edited

It is a curious feature of 20-century academia that the branch of mathematics known as rational choice theory led two of the most influential approaches to human behaviour to make completely different assumptions about the workings of the human mind. Biologists use rational choice theory to model the effects of natural selection on populations of genes. For a given range of alleles and their ph...

Towards an Adaptive and Flexible Metamodeling Toolbox

In the process of designing and understanding complex electrical, mechanical, structural, biological, economic and social systems metamodeling techniques have become indispensable. Due to the increasing computational complexity of current simulation codes multivariate approximation models (polynomials, Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, ...) are often used to gain insight into...

Naturalism and the a Priori

In Coming to Our Senses (1996), I argue for and apply a naturalistic semantic methodology to defend an anti-holistic truth-referential view of meaning. The naturalism in question is an epistemological doctrine that I take from Quine: there is only one way of knowing, the empirical way that is the basis of science (whatever that way may be). So I reject “a priori knowledge.” I do not give a deta...