Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Naturalism, fallibilism and evolutionary epistempology Christopher Hookway; 2. Historical entities and historical narratives David Hull; 3. Force and disposition in evolutionary theory Elliott Sober; 4. The evolution of animal intelligence John Maynard Smith; 5. Intentionality, syntactic structure and the evolution of language Neil Tennant; 6. Machines and consciousness Yorick Wilks; 7. Cognitive wheels: the frame problem of AI Daniel Dennett; 8. Animal perception from an Artificial Intelligence viewpoint Margaret Boden; Index.

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Original essays written by philosophers and scientists and dealing with philosophical questions arising from work in evolutionary biology and artificial intelligence.