The architecture of cognition : rethinking Fodor and Pylyshyn's systematicity challenge / edited by Paco Calvo and John Symons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calvo, Paco, editor.

Symons, John, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition.

Human information processing.

Connectionism.

Fodor, Jerry A--Influence.

Fodor, Jerry A.

Pylyshyn, Zenon W., 1937-2022--Influence.

Pylyshyn, Zenon W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (483 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1988, Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn challenged connectionist theorists to explain the systematicity of cognition. In a highly influential critical analysis of connectionism, they argued that connectionist explanations, at best, can only inform us about details of the neural substrate; explanations at the cognitive level must be classical insofar as adult human cognition is essentially systematic. This volume reassesses Fodor and Pylyshyn's 'systematicity challenge' for a post-connectionist era, covering the most important recent developments in the systematicity debate.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

I

1 Systematicity: An Overview

2 Can an ICS Architecture Meet the Systematicity and Productivity Challenges?

3 Tough Times to Be Talking Systematicity

II

4 PDP and Symbol Manipulation: What's Been Learned Since 1986?

5 Systematicity in the Lexicon: On Having Your Cake and Eating It Too

6 Getting Real about Systematicity

7 Systematicity and the Need for Encapsulated Representations

8 How Limited Systematicity Emerges: A Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Approach

9 A Category Theory Explanation for Systematicity: Universal Constructions

III

10 Systematicity and Architectural Pluralism

11 Systematicity Laws and Explanatory Structures in the Extended Mind

12 Systematicity and Conceptual Pluralism

13 Neo-Empiricism and the Structure of Thoughts

IV

14 Systematicity and Interaction Dominance

15 From Systematicity to Interactive Regularities: Grounding Cognition at the Sensorimotor Level

16 The Emergence of Systematicity in Minimally Cognitive Agents

17 Order and Disorders in the Form of Thought: The Dynamics of Systematicity

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-02723-2

OCLC:

877987820