On cognitive luck: Externalism in an evolutionary frame

In Martin Carrier & Peter Machamer (eds.), Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind. University of Pittsburgh Press (1997)
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Steven Pinker (1995) chides the educated layman for imagining Darwin's theory to go this way (the vertical lines are "begats"): [Figure #1] Pinker says, "evolution did not make a ladder; it made a bush" (p. 343), and he gives us the following diagrams instead, showing how it went, in increasing detail, down to us

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