Can evolutionary theory be used to support objectivism?
Stich considers that there are two main reasons why people think that evolution insures rationality: Evolution produces organisms with good approximations to optimally well-designed characteristics or systems An optimally well-designed cognitive system is a rational cognitive system He systematically takes apart both of these premises. His aim is not to demonstrate conclusively that evolution theory is incompatible with rational objectivism, but merely to show that the rational objectivists have their work cut out in showing how the two can sit together. I will not consider the arguments in as much detail, but I will try and recount, evaluate and supplement them to a limited extent.
