当代进化心理学的哲学反思

进化心理学是用进化的观点来研究人类心理机制的一种新思潮,是生物科学和认知科学的交叉学科。其从认知心理学吸取了知识加工的心理机制学说,用自然选择的原则来解释人类信息加工心理机制形成及其发展过程,将系统整体论的思想贯穿于心理学研究,建构了不同于传统心理学的理论范式,为心理科学提供了新的世界观图景和方法论原则。

Philosophical Reflection on the Modern Evolutionary Psychology

The evolutionary psychology,as a new trend of thought,is to study human psychological mechanism from the point of evolutionary and is a cross discipline between biological science and cognitive science.It adopts the psychological mechanism of knowledge processing from the cognitive psychology,explaining the formation and development of human information processing mechanism by the way of natural selection principles.At the same time,the evolutionary psychology puts systematic holism thinking into psychology research,constructing the theoretical paradigm different from traditions,providing a new world outlook and methodology for psychological science.