ELIMINATION, CORRECTION AND POPPER'S EVOLUTIONARY EPISTEMOLOGY
abstract
Evolutionary epistemologists like Popper and Campbell have appropriated the Darwinian principle to explain the apparent fit between the world and our knowledge of it. I argue that this strategy suffers from the lack of any principled distinction among various types of elimination. I offer such a distinction and show that there is a species of elimination that is really corrective, that is, which violates the Darwinian principle as Popper understands it.