Brian Boyd’s Evolutionary Account of Art: Fiction or Future?

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• 作者：Jan Verpooten (1) (2)
  
• 刊名：Biological Theory
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：June 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：6
• 期：2
• 页码：176-183
• 全文大小：145KB
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• 作者单位：Jan Verpooten (1) (2)
  
  1. Research Centre for Marketing and Consumer Science, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
  2. Ethology Research Group, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
  

文摘

There has been a recent surge of evolutionary explanations of art. In this article I evaluate one currently influential example, Brian Boyd’s recent book On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (2009). The book offers a stimulating collection of findings, ideas, and hypotheses borrowed from a wide range of research disciplines (philosophy of art and art criticism, anthropology, evolutionary and developmental psychology, neurobiology, ethology, etc.), brought together under the umbrella of evolution. However, in so doing Boyd lumps together issues that need to be separated, most importantly, organic and cultural evolution. In addition, he fails to consider alternative explanations to art as adaptation such as exaptation and constraint. Moreover, the neurobiological literature suggests current evidence of biological adaptation for most of the arts is weak at best. Given these considerations, I conclude by proposing to regard the arts instead as culturally evolved practices building on pre-existing biological traits.