Systematicity Arguments

AvKenneth L. Aizawa

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

This is a book-length treatment of the systematicity and productivity arguments. It explores each of the arguments in detail addressing the explanatory standard that is involved in the arguments, what is to be explained in the arguments, how diverse theories have attempted to meet the explanatory challenges of systematicity, and how successful these attempts have been. While not intended to be an introductory work, the book presupposes no familiarity with the leading theories of cognitive architecture or the systematicity and productivity arguments. The theories, the arguments, and their ramifications are explored in detail. The book should therefore be suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and specialists in cognitive science, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of mind.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-10-31
Mått:155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:423 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Brain and Mind
Antal sidor:255
Förlag:Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN:9781402072840

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Recensioner i media

"Aizawa makes an important contribution to the debate over whether a connectionist architecture can explain the systematicity of thought without implementing a classical architecture. His discussion blows away many pockets of unclarity in the literature on this issue." (Brian McLaughlin, Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Structure of Cognitive Representations.- 1.1 Some Theories of Cognitive Architecture.- 1.2 An Outline for the Book.- 2. Some History and Philosophy of Science.- 2.1 Copernican and Ptolemaic Astronomy.- 2.2 Darwinian Evolution and Creationism.- 2.3 What these Arguments have in Common.- 2.4 Some Broader Implications of our Explanatory Standards.- 2.5 Taking Stock.- 3. The Productivity of Thought.- 3.1 The Productivity Argument.- 4. The Systematicity of Inference.- 4.1 What is the Systematicity of Inference?.- 4.2 The Case Against the Systematicity of Inference.- 4.3 Explaining the Systematicity of Inference.- 4.4 Taking Stock.- 5. The Systematicity of Cognitive Representations.- 5.1 What is the Systematicity of Cognitive Representations?.- 5.2 Pure Atomistic Accounts of the Systematicity of Cognitive Representations.- 5.3 Classical Accounts of the Systematicity of Cognitive Representations.- 5.4 Taking Stock.- 6. The Compositionality of Representations.- 6.1 What is the Semantic Relatedness of Thought?.- 6.2 Accounts of the Semantic Relatedness of Thought.- 6.3 A Second Argument.- 6.4 Other Co-occurrence Explananda?.- 6.5 What is Fodor and Pylyshyn’s “Real” Argument?.- 6.6 The Tracking Argument and the Arguments from Psychological Processes.- 6.7 Taking Stock.- 7. The Systematicity Arguments Applied to Connectionism.- 7.1 Chalmers’s Active-Passive Transformation Model.- 7.2 Hadley and Hayward’s Model of Strong Semantic Systematicity.- 7.3 Taking Stock.- 8. Functional Combinatorialism.- 8.1 Gödel numerals.- 8.2 Smolensky’s Tensor Product Theory.- 8.3 Taking Stock.- 9 An Alternative Cognitive Architecture.- 10. Taking the Brain Seriously.- 10.1 The Fundamental Neuropsychological Inference.- 10.2 More History of Science.- 10.3 The Inductive Risks ofNeuropsychology.- 10.4 Parallel Distributed Processing.- 10.5 The Risk of Taking the Brain Seriously.- 11. Putting Matters in Perspective.- References.