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    Kim Sterelny

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy of Biology

    b. 1950

    Kim Sterelny is an Australian philosopher of biology and cognitive science known for his work on evolution, cultural learning, and the origins of human cognition. He has made significant contributions to debates on evolutionary theory, scientific realism, and the philosophy of mind, particularly regarding how humans became a distinctively cooperative and cognitively sophisticated species.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Authored 'The Evolved Apprentice' on the evolution of human cognition through cultural learning

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    Co-authored 'Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology' with Paul Griffiths

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    Developed influential accounts of evolutionary explanation and niche construction

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    Awarded the Lakatos Award for 'Thought in a Hostile World'

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    Professor at Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington

    Positions & Arguments(2)

    Skepticism

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    The inference from premises (1)-(3) to the conclusion that grammar G is unlearnable from the pld (period) involves an equivocation

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    Backward induction is self-undermining as a solution concept in certain extensive-form games

    Philosophy of Language

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    The inference from premises (1)-(3) to the conclusion that grammar G is unlearnable from the pld (period) involves an equivocation

    Truth & Knowledge

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    Backward induction is self-undermining as a solution concept in certain extensive-form games

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