Darwinian Domain-Generality: The Role of Evolutionary Psychology in the Modularity Debate

Darwinian Domain-Generality: The Role of Evolutionary Psychology in the Modularity Debate

Evolutionary Psychology (EP) tends to be associated with a Massively Modular (MM) cognitive architecture. I argue that EP favors a non-MM cognitive architecture. The main point of dispute is whether central cognition, such as abstract reasoning, exhibits domain-general properties. Partisans of EP ar...

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Main Author: Lundie, Michael
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University 2017
Subjects:
central cognition
connectome
domain-specific
encapsulated
endogenous selection pressure
exogenous selection pressure
domain-general
hub core
rich club
Online Access:http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/philosophy_theses/205
http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1214&context=philosophy_theses

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