You can't always get what you want: Evolution and true beliefs

被引:3
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作者
Schloss, Jeffrey P. [1 ]
Murray, Michael J. [2 ]
机构
[1] Westmont Coll, Dept Biol, Santa Barbara, CA 93108 USA
[2] Franklin & Marshall Coll, Dept Philosophy, Lancaster, PA 17604 USA
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10.1017/S0140525X09991476
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
McKay & Dennett (M&D) convincingly argue against many proposals for adaptively functioning misbelief, but the conclusion that true beliefs are generally adaptive does not follow. Adaptive misbeliefs may be few in kind but many in number; maladaptive misbeliefs may routinely elude selective pruning; reproductively neutral misbeliefs may abound; and adaptively grounded beliefs may reliably covary with but not truthfully represent reality.
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