Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 The Biology of Logic -- THE PROVENANCE OF LOGIC -- THE CLASSICAL FAMILY OF LOGICS -- BEHAVIOR AS COMMON GROUND -- POPULATION PROCESSES INDUCE LOGICS -- DEFINING REDUCTION -- REDUCTIONISM IN LOGIC -- LOGIC AS SCIENTIFIC GENERALIZATION -- HINTS FROM THE LITERATURE -- SUMMARY -- 2 The Evolutionary Derivation of Life-History Strategy Theory -- THE LADDER OF REDUCIBILITY -- MODEL 1: CONSTANT GROWTH -- TREE DIAGRAMS -- POPULATION FLOW -- CHARACTER COMBINATIONS -- CONSEQUENCES -- LIFE-HISTORY STRATEGIES -- CONDITIONAL STRATEGIES -- FITNESS -- FITNESS SCALES -- ADAPTATIONIST REASONING -- SUMMARY -- 3 The Evolutionary Derivation of Decision Logic -- REVIEW OF CLASSICAL DECISION THEORY -- DECISION TREES AS LIFE-HISTORY BRANCHES -- RESTRICTION TO BEHAVIORAL TRAITS -- STATISTICAL EXPECTATION -- POPULATION FLOW AND INDIVIDUAL CHOICE -- UNIQUE DECISION PROBLEMS -- BUSHY TREES -- OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITIES -- OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE FITNESSES -- UTILITIES AS SUBJECTIVE FITNESSES -- AN OBJECTION CONSIDERED -- COGNITIVE MECHANISMS -- SUMMARY -- 4 The Evolutionary Derivation of Inductive Logic Part I -- ACT REPRESENTATIONS -- PREFERENCE RELATIONS -- THE SAVAGE THEORY -- A REDUCIBILITY THEOREM -- INTERPRETING THE THEOREM -- THE INNATENESS OF RATIONALITY -- SUBJECTIVITY VINDICATED -- MEASURING SUBJECTIVE QUANTITIES -- BELIEF STATES -- SUMMARY -- 5 The Evolutionary Derivation of Deductive Logic -- SYNTAX, SEMANTICS, AND PRAGMATICS -- PROPOSITIONS -- BELIEF -- LOGICAL CONSEQUENCE -- PROPOSITIONAL CONNECTIVES -- ARGUMENT SCHEMATA -- PROPOSITIONAL SEMANTICS -- PROPOSITIONAL AXIOMATICS -- PREDICATE LOGIC -- HIGHER ORDER LOGIC -- SUMMARY -- 6 The Evolutionary Derivation of Inductive Logic Part II -- THE PROBABILITY CONDITIONAL -- FORMALIZING IF-THEN -- PLAUSIBLE INFERENCE.

THE INDUCTIVE LEAP -- THE UNIFORMITY OF NATURE -- THE ILLUSION OF ENHANCED UNIFORMITY -- SUMMARY -- 7 The Evolutionary Derivation of Mathematics -- LOGICISM -- OBJECTIONS TO LOGICISM -- CHARGES OF CIRCULARITY -- EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE LOGICS -- REVIEW OF THE REDUCTION -- REASON RECAPITULATES EVOLUTION -- SUMMARY -- 8 Broadening the Evolutionary Foundation of Classical Logic -- TRAIT-NEUTRAL REGULATION -- MODEL 2: A LOGISTIC PROCESS -- TREE PROCEDURE PRESERVED -- MODEL 3: A GENERALIZATION -- MODEL 4: SEXUAL REPRODUCTION -- A COMBINED MODEL -- LOGICALLY CLASSICAL MODELS -- SUMMARY -- 9 The Evolutionary Derivation of Nonclassical Logics -- MODEL 5: A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT -- STRATEGY MIXING -- WEIGHTING THE COIN -- COIN-FLIPPING ALTRUISM -- A COGNITIVE SPECULATION -- THE NONCLASSICAL CHARACTER OF MODEL 5 -- MODEL 6: AGE STRUCTURE -- THE NONCLASSICAL CHARACTER OF MODEL 6 -- MODEL 7: A SMALL-POPULATION MODEL -- ETE AS AN UNDERLYING FITNESS MEASURE -- ETE AS A UTILITY MEASURE -- NONCLASSICALITY ON THE HIGHER RUNGS -- TOWARD A MORE REALISTIC LOGIC -- DESCRIPTIVE LOGIC -- SUMMARY -- 10 Radical Reductionism in Logic -- SYNOPSIS OF RADICAL REDUCTIONISM -- THE RADICAL REDUCTIONIST -- LOGICAL ABSOLUTISM -- BIOLOGICAL RELATIVISM -- THE DANGERS OF CLASSICISM -- REDUCTIONISM IN DEDUCTIVE LOGIC -- THE REDUCTIONIST CRITIQUE OF CLASSICISM -- SOME RAMIFICATIONS OF REDUCTIONISM -- CLASSICISM AND REDUCTIONISM CONTRASTED -- THE CLASSICAL ALTERNATIVES -- SUMMARY -- 11 Toward a Unified Science of Reason -- LOGIC AS A SCIENCE -- EMPIRICISM -- THE A PRIORI -- LANGUAGE GAMES AND FORMALISM -- GRAND REDUCIBILITY HIERARCHIES -- ALLIED DISCIPLINES -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Appendix Formal Theory -- DEFINING RATIONALITY -- OPTIMALITY THEORY -- RECURRENT DECISION PROBLEMS -- SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITIES AND UTILITIES -- NOVEL DECISION PROBLEMS -- DEDUCTIVE LOGIC -- References -- Index.