Loredo-Narciandi José Carlos, Castro-Tejerina Jorge
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.
Department of Basic Psycology 1, National Distance Education University (UNED), 28040, Madrid, Spain.
Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2022 Mar;56(1):297-307. doi: 10.1007/s12124-020-09584-7. Epub 2021 Jan 3.
This article is an attempt to reply to a number of theoretical and epistemological issues frequently addressed in contemporary evolutionary psychology. We adopt a critical approach to both the empiricist conceit so often underlying the discipline and its core premises around the relationship between mind and biological evolution. As an alternative we take a constructivist view from which we propose to broach that relationship through the so-called Baldwin effect. That phenomenon, widely known among evolutionary biologists today, enables us to elude simplistic approaches to the problem of the relationship between psychology and evolution. It also affords a perspective for re-focusing the issues on the activity of organisms and the classic inter-connections among phylogenesis, historiogenesis and ontogenesis. The study concludes with a warning about the limitations to explanation that should be assumed by any psychological postulate with universally comprehensive pretensions, an issue evocative of the inevitable and structural crisis in which psychology should agree to transpire.
本文试图回应当代进化心理学中经常探讨的一些理论和认识论问题。我们对该学科常常隐含的经验主义自负及其围绕心智与生物进化关系的核心前提采取批判态度。作为替代，我们采取建构主义观点，据此我们提议通过所谓的鲍德温效应来探讨这种关系。这种现象如今在进化生物学家中广为人知，它使我们能够避开对心理学与进化关系问题的简单化处理方法。它还为重新聚焦于生物体的活动以及种系发生、历史发生和个体发生之间的经典相互联系提供了一个视角。该研究最后警告说，任何具有普遍全面诉求的心理学假设都应认识到解释的局限性，这一问题引发了心理学应该认同的不可避免的结构性危机。
