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Re: Fodor, Folk Psychology, and the Language of Thought hypothesis, obligatory link to Paul Churchland's retort :) "Eliminative Materialism and the Proposition
by wfn 12y ago
Re: Fodor, Folk Psychology, and the Language of Thought hypothesis, obligatory link to Paul Churchland's retort :)
"Eliminative Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes": http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Churchland-Eliminative-Materialism-and-Propositional-Attitudes.pdf http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Chu...
Basically, a critique of the approach of formalizing thought processes as (first predicate, or multipredicate, or whatever kind of) logical computation (of symbols.) It's a good read even if one thinks that the overall debate is pretty fruitless.
- cessor 12y agoThanks, I'll give it a read! I don't have a definite stance on the topic but I am aware that a lot of people are making a lot of points on this - indeed - very philosophical topic. I often lean back and enjoy the discourse, it is very good entertainment :) I am far away from pointing it out as fruitless but I can definitely understand why many cog-sci folk would thinks so (often depending on their background, really). I particularly liked what Tim van Gelder wrote on dynamicism, although I don't agree with it and he appears to have a poor view on the connectionist perspective.
- wfn 12y agoHmm, maybe it's high time I gave an honest re-read of http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/ - last time I glanced at it, it gave many sparks and inspiration to delve deeper into things. And lots of good pointers. So I guess I can recommend doing the same thing. :)