Abstract

Controversies have focused on the thesis that perceptual and linguistic decoding processes are modular, much more than on the alleged nonmodularity of thought; defend the view that thought processes might be modular too; articulate a modular view of human thought with the naturalistic view of human culture that (the author has) been developing under the label "epidemiology of representations"; show how, contrary to the received view, organisms endowed with truly modular minds might engender truly diverse cultures.