La notion de l’explosion de la coopération et ses implications chez Kim Sterelny
The concept of cooperation is often used in the field of ethics and of politics to illustrate and understand the alignment of associative behaviors between human beings. In connection with this concept, our research will concern the first question to know if Kim Sterelny (2003) manages to produce a theoretical model allowing him to explain the origins and mechanisms of the human cooperation. Our research also concerns the second question of knowing if he manages to use this model to counter the massive modularity thesis. As such, this work will deal successively with the subjects of the problem of cooperation, of the theory of group selection, of the ecological trigger of hominid cooperation, of the notions of coalition, of enforcement and of commitment and finally of the massive modularity thesis. By the examination of these subjects, we wish to demonstrate that Sterelny manages only to supply a likely sketch of the origins and of the development of the human cooperation and that his criticism of the massive modularity thesis does not manage to counter the latter.
Kim Sterelny Thought in a hostile world: the evolution of human cognition Cooperation Evolutionary psychology Philosophy of biology Massive modularity