ABSTRACT
Evolutionary epistemology has been widely discussed recently primarily because of its claim to have carried out a “Copernician turn in philosophy” (Vollmer, 1975, p. 172). The basic question evolutionary epistemology seeks to answer can be formulated as follows: What is the reason for the extensive, though not complete agreement between objective structures of the real world (i.e., physics) and the subjective structure of our knowledge of this world (i.e., mind)? Vollmer (1984) gives the following answer to this question: “Our cognitive device is a result of biological evolution. Our subjective cognitive structures match the objective structures of the world because they originated by adaptation to this world. And they are partially isomorphic to this world because otherwise we could not have survived” (p. 75). Since Kant the representation of the external world in the mind has been one of the major philosophical problems.
