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Titre du document / Document title

Beyond intuition and instinct blindness: toward an evolutionarily rigorous cognitive science

Auteur(s) / Author(s)

COSMIDES L. ; TOOBY J. ;

Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)

Univ. California, lab. evolutionary psychology, dep. psychology, Santa Barbara CA 93106-3210, ETATS-UNIS

Résumé / Abstract

Cognitive psychology has an opportunity to turn itself into a theoretically rigorous discipline in which a powerful set of theories organize observations and suggest focused new hypotheses. This cannot happen, however, as long as intuition and folk psychology continue to set our research agenda. This is because intuition systematicall blinds us to the ful universe of problems our minds spontaneously solve, restricting our attention instead to a minute class of unrepresentative «high-level» problems. In contrast, evolutionarily rigorous theories of adaptive function are the logical foundation on which to build cognitive theories, because the architecture of the human mind acquired its functional organization through the evolutionary process

Revue / Journal Title

Cognition (Cognition) ISSN 0010-0277 CODEN CGTNAU

Source / Source

1994, vol. 50, n^o1-3, pp. 41-77 (3 p.1/4)

Langue / Language

Anglais

Editeur / Publisher

Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, PAYS-BAS (1972) (Revue)

Mots-clés anglais / English Keywords

Critical study ; Epistemology ; Theory ; Cognitive psychology ; Biological evolution ; Adaptation ; Cognition ; Human ; Cognitive science ;

Mots-clés français / French Keywords

Etude critique ; Epistémologie ; Théorie ; Psychologie cognitive ; Evolution biologique ; Adaptation ; Cognition ; Homme ; Sciences cognitives ;

Mots-clés espagnols / Spanish Keywords

Estudio crítico ; Epistemología ; Teoría ; Psichología cognitiva ; Evolución biológica ; Adaptación ; Cognición ; Hombre ;

Localisation / Location

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