Without Miracles
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Without Miracles
| Full title | Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution |
|---|---|
| Author | Gary Cziko |
| Published | 1995 |
| Pages | 392 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Cziko argues that selection — blind variation plus retention of what works — is the only known mechanism that produces fit between an organism and its world, so it must be at work wherever such fit appears: immune systems, perception, motor learning, language, science itself. Providence and instruction, the alternatives, both smuggle in knowledge the system could not have had in advance. |
Without Miracles
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List (March 2026), under Science, Technology, and Epistemology, alongside Popper, extending the evolutionary account of knowledge from theories to minds and bodies. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- Evolution — selection as the general mechanism.
- Knowledge — knowledge as something selected rather than instructed.
- Karl Popper — the evolutionary epistemology this extends.
- Epistemology — the field the argument is aimed at.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
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