ABSTRACT
The modularity of the human mind is a hotly debated issue in philosophy of psychology and cognitive science. Massive modularity hypothesis (MMH) is a specific claim about the functional decomposition of the human mind: the idea that the human mind is a massive modular, instead of a general-purpose, device. One of the central ideas behind modularity is that modules are innate. Domain specificity is either an important feature in a bundle of characteristics, or domain specificity is seen as a necessary condition for something to be a module. The arguments in favor of MMH can be understood as belonging to two groups. First, some arguments are presented for massive modularity. Second, proponents of modularity argue that one specific capacity is modular and that this capacity is clearly a part of central cognition. Sometimes modularity of a capacity is meant to mean that a system contains exclusively modular subcomponents, which are linked in a specific way.
