I.A. Kuzin - Post-graduate Student, Chair of Philosophy and Methodology of Science of Philosophy Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University. E-mail: ikuzin@gmail.com

Evolutionary psychology is frequently considered as the major successor of sociobiology. It ignores variation within the modern human species and thus differs from sociobiology but has inherited other sociobiology-s dubious properties: reductionism (transformed into the massive modularity thesis) and adaptationism [1, 3]. This two principles reinforce each other [1]. Concept of modularity in psychology is currently much more confused than in biology and requires philosophical clarification as well as integration with biological data [2-4]. This work was financially supported by RFH in grant № 15-33-01041 «Scientific realism and ontological problems in modern science».

 

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