Gerhard Vollmer #

Books

Evolutionäre Erkenntnistheorie. Stuttgart: Hirzel 1975, 82002. Translations into Chinese, Japanese, Russian.
Was können wir wissen? Vol.1: Die Natur der Erkenntnis. Vol. 2: Die Erkenntnis der Natur. Stuttgart: Hirzel 1985/86, 21988, 32003.
Wissenschaftstheorie im Einsatz. Stuttgart: Hirzel 1993.
Auf der Suche nach der Ordnung. Stuttgart: Hirzel 1995.
Biophilosophie. Stuttgart: Reclam 1995.
Wieso können wir die Welt erkennen? Stuttgart: Hirzel 2003


In preparation

Denkzeuge: Algorithmen, Gehirne, Computer Erfahrung und Hypothese. Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie für Naturwissenschaftler

Co-edited

Denken unterwegs. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft 1992
Der Mensch in seiner Welt Anthropologie heute. Trias 1994
Was sind und warum gelten Naturgesetze? Klostermann 2000
Fakten statt Normen? Nomos 2004
Naturalismus: Positionen, Perspektiven, Probleme. Mohr Siebeck 2007


Papers in English

83/2 Mesocosm and Objective Knowledge - On Problems Solved by Evolutionary Epistemology.
In F. M. Wuketits (ed.): Concepts and approaches in evolutionary epistemology.
Dordrecht: Reidel 1983, pp. 69-121

83/3 Kant and Evolutionary Epistemology.
Proc. 7th International Wittgenstein-Symposium, August 1982 (Kirchberg am Wechsel/ Austria).
Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky 1983, 185-197

84/6 New Problems for an Old Brain - Synergetics, Cognition, and Evolutionary Epistemology.
In E. Frehland (ed.): Synergetics - form microscopic to macroscopic order. Springer 1984, 250-8

84/7 Reduction and Evolution - Arguments and Examples.
In W. Balzer, D. Pearce, H.J. Schmidt (eds.): Reduction in Science. Structures, Examples, Philosophical Problems. Dordrecht: Reidel 1984, 131-152

87/1 What Evolutionary Epistemology is not.
In W. Callebaut, R. Pinxten (eds.): Evolutionary Epistemology: A Multiparadigm Program.
Dordrecht: Reidel 1987, 203-221

87/4 The status of the theory of evolution in the philosophy of science.
In A.R. Peacocke, S. Andersen (eds.): Evolution and creation. A European perspective.
Aarhus: Aarhus University Press 1987, 70-77

87/7 On supposed circularities in an empirically oriented epistemology.
In G. Radnitzky, W.W. Bartley III (eds.): Evolutionary epistemology, rationality. and the sociology of knowledge. Lasalle (Ill.): Open Court 1987, ch. 8, 163-200

87/8 The unity of science in an evolutionary perspective.
In G. Radnitzky (ed.): Centripetal forces in the sciences. Vol. I. New York: Paragon 1987, 171-206

89/1 The concept of evolution as a synthetic tool in science. Its strengths and limits.
In W.A. Koch (ed.): The nature of culture (Symposium Bochum 1986).
Bochum: Brockmeyer 1989, 500-520


92/2 The mirror´s reflections: Lorenz and evolutionary epistemology.
Evolution and Cognition 2 (1992/1) 161-176

92/15 Evolution and projection. Approaches to a modern epistemology.
Universitas (engl. Ausgabe) 34 (2/1992) 114-126 (translated by Philip Mattson)

92/19 Order into chaos? How scientific knowledge shapes our world view.
Universitas (engl. Ausgabe) 34 (4/1992) 256-267

94/2 On the limits of human knowledge. Universitas (engl. Ausgabe) 36 (1/1994) 1-11 (translated from German by Joyce und Francis Steele)

94/8 The limits of biology.
In D. Prawitz, B. Skyrms and D. Westerstål (eds.): Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science IX. (Proc. Int. Congress of LMPS, Uppsala 1991). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science 1994, 659-676

95/10 Naturalism, Function, Teleonomy.
Comments on Gibbard’s „Human Moral Assessment: Method, Hypotheses, Puzzles“.
In G. Wolters, J.G. Lennox (eds.): Concepts, theories, and rationality in the biological sciences.
Second Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science (Oct. 1993).
Universitätsverlag Konstanz / University of Pittsburgh Press 1995, 295-304

98/4(With Wolfgang Buschlinger and Henrik Walter)
The mental life of artifacts. Explications, questions, arguments. In Hennig Stieve (Hrsg.): Natural organisms, artificial organisms, and their brains. Proceedings of an International Workshop at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld (ZiF), März 1998.
Special Issue of Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C 53 (July/August 1998) 455-479.

98/5 (With Rupert Schmidt u.a.) Group report: Influence of brain and computer design on the performance of natural and artificial organisms.
In Hennig Stieve (Hrsg.): Natural organisms, artificial organisms, and their brains. Proceedings of an International Workshop at the Center for interdisciplinary research. Special Issue of Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C 53 (July/August 1998) 752-764.

00/6 Why does mathematics fit nature? The problem of application
In: V. Gómez Pin (ed.): Physis: From Greek Thought to Quantum Mechanics. (III. International Ontology Congress, San Sebastián 1998). Ontology Studies. Cuadernos de Ontología. Bilbao 2000, 251-260

04/1 New arguments in evolutionary epistemology.
In Francisco J. Ayala (ed.): Ernst Mayr 1904. Ludus Vitalis XII, No. 21 (2004) 197-212

05/4 How is it that We Can Know this World? – New Arguments in Evolutionary Epistemology
In Vittorio Hösle and Christian Illies (eds.): Darwinism and philosophy. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press 2005, 259-274

07/4 Can everything be rationally explained everywhere in the world?
In Georg Gasser (ed.): How successful is naturalism? Frankfurt: Ontos 2007, 25-48

In press:

10/ Invariance and objectivity
In Paul Busch (ed.): Honorary volume for Peter Mittelstaedt (80)

10/ Could I have done otherwise? Naturalism, responsibility, and punishment
In Ulrich Frey, Charlotte Störmer, Kai Willführ (eds.): Homo novus – a human without illusions.
For Eckart Voland to his 60th birthday. Berlin: Springer 2010

10/ Between biology and philosophy: our knowledge of the real world
In: Friedrich G. Barth, Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch, Hans-Dieter Klein (eds.): Sensory perception – mind and matter. Wien, New York: Springer 2010