Skeptical Inquirer, January 1st, 2007
Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously wrote (in the Tractatus) that Darwin's theory has no more to do with philosophy than any other hypothesis in natural science." Apparently, Darwin begged to differ, since already in 1838, in his Notebook M, he wrote: "Plato ... says in his Phaedo that our 'necessary ideas' arise from the preexistence of the soul, are not derived from experience--read monkeys for preexistence." The contrast between these eminent thinkers sets the stage for a fascinating treatment of so-called "evolutionary epistemology" by Gerhard Vollmer (in Darwinism & Philosophy, edit...
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