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Cultural Blankets: Epistemological Pluralism in the Evolutionary Epistemology of Mechanisms
Journal for General Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2019-09-05 , DOI: 10.1007/s10838-019-09472-8 Pierre Poirier , Luc Faucher , Jean-Nicolas Bourdon
Journal for General Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2019-09-05 , DOI: 10.1007/s10838-019-09472-8 Pierre Poirier , Luc Faucher , Jean-Nicolas Bourdon
In a recently published paper, we argued that theories of cultural evolution can gain explanatory power by being more pluralistic. In his reply to it, Dennett agreed that more pluralism is needed. Our paper’s main point was to urge cultural evolutionists to get their hands dirty by describing the fine details of cultural products and by striving to offer detailed and, when explanatory, varied algorithms or mechanisms to account for them. While Dennett’s latest work on cultural evolution does marvelously well on the first point, it has only whet our appetite on the second. Accordingly, the present paper aims to show what an evolutionary explanation of culture that takes the variety of cultural evolution mechanisms seriously would look like. We will focus on the cultural evolution of social epistemic mechanisms (i.e. social mechanisms that aim to deliver epistemically valued judgements) and we will propose that Darwinian algorithms should be complemented with a cultural analogue of the error reduction mechanism proposed to account for human cognition, with a particular emphasis on the necessity to build independencies (known as “Markov blankets”) between different sub-systems in charge of tracking states of the world. To illustrate our point, we will present how the evolution of the legal system as epistemic systems can be understood as a process of building increasingly better independencies and how various criticisms of the actual legal system calls for building even more of them.
中文翻译:
文化毯子:机制进化认识论中的认识论多元论
在最近发表的一篇论文中,我们认为文化进化理论可以通过更加多元化来获得解释力。在他的答复中,丹尼特同意需要更多的多元化。我们论文的主要观点是敦促文化进化论者通过描述文化产品的细节并努力提供详细的、解释性的、不同的算法或机制来解释它们。虽然丹尼特关于文化进化的最新工作在第一点上做得非常好,但它只会激起我们对第二点的兴趣。因此,本文旨在展示认真对待各种文化进化机制的文化进化解释会是什么样子。我们将关注社会认知机制的文化演变(即 旨在提供认知价值判断的社会机制),我们将建议达尔文算法应与为解释人类认知而提出的错误减少机制的文化类比进行补充,特别强调建立独立性的必要性(称为“马尔可夫毯”)在负责跟踪世界状态的不同子系统之间。为了说明我们的观点,我们将展示如何将法律体系作为认知体系的演变理解为建立越来越好的独立性的过程,以及对实际法律体系的各种批评如何要求建立更多独立性。
更新日期:2019-09-05
中文翻译:
文化毯子:机制进化认识论中的认识论多元论
在最近发表的一篇论文中,我们认为文化进化理论可以通过更加多元化来获得解释力。在他的答复中,丹尼特同意需要更多的多元化。我们论文的主要观点是敦促文化进化论者通过描述文化产品的细节并努力提供详细的、解释性的、不同的算法或机制来解释它们。虽然丹尼特关于文化进化的最新工作在第一点上做得非常好,但它只会激起我们对第二点的兴趣。因此,本文旨在展示认真对待各种文化进化机制的文化进化解释会是什么样子。我们将关注社会认知机制的文化演变(即 旨在提供认知价值判断的社会机制),我们将建议达尔文算法应与为解释人类认知而提出的错误减少机制的文化类比进行补充,特别强调建立独立性的必要性(称为“马尔可夫毯”)在负责跟踪世界状态的不同子系统之间。为了说明我们的观点,我们将展示如何将法律体系作为认知体系的演变理解为建立越来越好的独立性的过程,以及对实际法律体系的各种批评如何要求建立更多独立性。