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广东省哲学社会科学规划项目(GD16XZX03)
文章回顾了认知考古学家马拉福瑞斯的共时的物质能动性论题,并尝试构想了一种历时的物质 能 动性论题。前者基于可供性概念,主张技能活动源于环境可供性的引导,而非人类的意图和规划;后者基 于元可塑性概念,主张人类心灵与文化环境在演化和发育过程中是相互塑造的,外部环境具有对认知 演 化和发育的能动性。通过对能动性条 件 的 界 定,文章论证了物质能动性的共时版本并不成立,它 承 诺 的 物质能动性更多是旨在破除人类中心论的修辞策略,而历时版本承诺的物质能动性则有可能在字面意义 上是成立的。物质能动性论的历时版本不仅打破了心物二元的笛卡尔式图景,还进一步打破了基因完全 决定的达尔文式图景,展现了一种更具动态性和建构性的世界观。
Thesynchronic materialagencythesisproposedbythecognitivearchaeologist Malaphroishasbeenre- viewed,whichbasedontheconceptofaffordancearguesthatskillactivitiesoriginatefromtheguidanceofenviron- mentalaffordanceratherthanhumanintentionandplanning.Onthecontrary,akindofdiachronicmaterialagency thesishasbeenproposed,whichbasedontheconceptofmetaplasticitymaintainsthathumanmindandculturalenvi- ronmentaremutuallyshapedandtheexternalenvironmentfunctionsastheagentintheprocessofevolutionanddevel- opment.Bydefiningtheconditionsofagency,thesynchronicthesis,whosepromisedmaterialagencyaimsmoreata rhetoricalstrategytodenyanthropocentrism,hasbeenprovedinvalid.Whilethediachronicthesisislikelytobevalid literally,whichnotonlydeniestheCartesianpictureofmind-matterduality,butalsofurtherreversestheDarwinian pictureoftheorganismbeingfullydeterminedbygenes,presentingamoredynamicandconstructiveworldview.
夏永红,李建会.可供性与元可塑性:再探物质能动性论题[J].长沙理工大学学报(社会科学版),2021,36(4):44-52.XIAYong-hong, LIJian-hui.AffordancesandMetaplasticity:RevisitingtheMaterialAgencyThesi[J]. Journal of Changsha University of Science & Technology Social Science,2021,36(4):44-52.