Evolutionary economics conference

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Shaun Johnston:
In modern times we've made two revolutionary discoveries. One is, how changes in physical matter can be accounted for in terms of physical laws that can predict precisely what will happen next. Having given rise to science (how this can be studied) and industry (how it can be applied) this revolution is well under way.

The second revolution is, how emergence of species of living creatures can be accounted for in terms of them evolving from one another. This revolution, despite its promise of how much it could tell us about ourselves, remains stillborn through the mistaken application to it of principles coming out of the first revolution--reductive physicalism.

For this second revolution to advance it should be taken from under the wing of science and studied on its own terms. Tip: one recent product of evolution is creatures with minds. Minds are better studied through methods of the humanities than through those of science. Tell me, does this interest you?

Details: Written by Shaun Johnston Shaun Johnston; Published: January 14, 2011 January 14, 2011; Hits: 3807 3807

Evolutionary Theory and its Policy Implications for Modem Capitalism is a conference to be held in Hertfordshire UK in association with the Group for Research into Organizational Evolution, publishers of the Journal of Institutional Economics published by Cambridge University Press. All presentations have "evolution" in the title. One of the speakers is David Sloan Wilson of Binghamton University, founder of the ultra-Darwinian EVoS.

Here is Darwinism being planted at the roots of future social policy.

Suppose Darwinism is wrong! What form of questioning of Darwinism could have any impact on this juggernaut rolling through the academic world out of general view? Can the association between Darwinism and physicalism, determinism, and fatalism be broadcast sufficiently to raise doubts? Not if "free will" is labeled "incompatibilism" and belief in it is labeled "folk psychology." A new discourse is needed. I have submitted a contribution to Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism.