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Toward a Cultural Evolutionary Psychology: Why the Evolutionary Approach does not Imply Reductionism or Determinism
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science ( IF 1.156 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-20 , DOI: 10.1007/s12124-021-09613-z
Andrea Zagaria 1 , Agata Ando' 1 , Alessandro Zennaro 1
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Does evolutionary psychology (EP) properly account for the sociocultural context? Does it underestimate both the developmental and the relational aspects of the human psyche? Is it instantiated in a mechanistic epistemology? Does it imply determinism or reductionism? The commentaries on our previous target article raised similar questions and we try to tackle them in the current response. Our “epistemological assessment” of Psychology and our consequent unification claim under the banner of the evolutionary approach (Zagaria et al., Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 54(3), 521–562, 2020) was deeply examined and discussed. The objections to our target article can be grouped into four main categories. We sum them up and argue why: 1) the pre-paradigmatic status of psychology is a problem rather than a richness of perspectives; 2) EP's criticisms stem from common misconceptions—furthermore, developmental and relational aspects of human psyche might find their natural explanation in EP; 3) EP does not wipe out the emergence of the sociocultural context as something qualitatively different; 4) evolutionary meta-theory is not incompatible with subjectivity. Evolutionary psychology might be approached with caution and curiosity, rather than with prejudicial concepts. Incorporating some legitimate cultural criticisms, it may aspire to become a “cultural evolutionary psychology”, hence an integrative psychological meta-theory that tries to connect the biological “plane of existence” (Henriques, Review of General Psychology, 7(2), 150–182, 2003) to the cultural “plane of existence”. However, a basic philosophical concern has yet to be answered, i.e. what ultimately constitutes mind and thus the “psycho-logical” science. We argue that when trying to find the answer we know where to look at.



中文翻译:

走向文化进化心理学:为什么进化论方法并不意味着还原论或决定论

进化心理学(EP)是否恰当地解释了社会文化背景?它是否低估了人类心理的发展和关系方面?是在机械认识论中实例化的吗?它意味着确定性还是简化主义?对我们之前的目标文章的评论提出了类似的问题,我们试图在当前的答复中加以解决。我们深入研究并讨论了我们对心理学的“认识论评估”,以及由此而在进化论的旗帜下提出的统一主张(Zagaria等人,《综合心理与行为科学》,第54卷,第3期,第521–562页,2020年)。对我们的目标文章的异议可以分为四个主要类别。我们对它们进行归纳总结并指出原因:1)心理学的范式前地位是问题而不是丰富的观点;2)EP的批评源于普遍的误解,此外,人类心理的发展关系方面可能会在EP中找到其自然的解释。3)EP并不能消除社会文化背景在质上有所不同的出现;4)进化元理论与主观性不相容。进化心理学可能要谨慎和好奇,而不是偏见。将一些合法的文化批评,它可以立志要成为一个“文化进化心理学”,因此一个综合性的心理元理论尝试连接生物“存在的面”(恩里克,审查普通心理学7(2),150 –182年,2003年)到文化的“生存平面”。但是,一个基本的哲学问题尚待解决,即,什么最终构成了心灵,从而构成了“心理学”科学。我们认为,当试图找到答案时,我们知道该去哪里看。

更新日期:2021-04-21
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