2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Study on the possibility of the hierarchical thinking as an alternative to the gene-reductionistic one in the philosophy of biology
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21520028
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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| Research Institution | Tokai University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2012
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| Keywords | 自然選択の単位 / 適応主義 / 遺伝子選択説 / 社会生物学 / 進化心理学 / 進化的機能分析 / モジュール集合体仮説 |
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| Research Abstract |
I have conducted my research for the past four years along the two themes-the problems of ‘units of natural selection’ and ‘adaptationist explanations of human behavior’-from a standpoint critical of gene-reductionist strategies. Especially, as for the latter problem, I have had a number of occasions to present my critical analysis of the methodology of evolutionary psychology called ‘evolutionary functional analysis’ to the international audience. The only thing left for me to do is to publish it on prestigious international journals, which I will continue to challenge down the road.
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