The Systematicity Arguments
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This text addresses one section of arguments about the structure of cognitive representations, specifically the productivity and systematicity arguments developed by Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn. Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana) evaluates the logic of the arguments, suggesting that while empirical studies are useful, a careful understanding of the premises and reasoning of the theoretical arguments is necessary towards guiding the application of relevant results. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
PrefaceAcknowledgments1The Structure of Cognitive Representations11.1Some Theories of Cognitive Architecture11.2An Outline for the Book132Some History and Philosophy of Science192.1Copernican and Ptolemaic Astronomy212.2Darwinian Evolution and Creationism252.3What these Arguments have in Common272.4Some Broader Implications of our Explanatory Standards362.5Taking Stock393The Productivity of Thought433.1The Productivity Argument444The Systematicity of Inference574.1What is the Systematicity of Inference?574.2The Case Against the Systematicity of Inference644.3Explaining the Systematicity of Inference734.4Taking Stock875The Systematicity of Cognitive Representations915.1What is the Systematicity of Cognitive Representations?915.2Pure Atomistic Accounts of the Systematicity of Cognitive Representations995.3Classical Accounts of the Systematicity of Cognitive Representations1035.4Taking Stock1126The Compositionality of Representations1176.1What is the Semantic Relatedness of Thought?1186.2Accounts of the Semantic Relatedness of Thought1246.3A Second Argument1266.4Other Co-occurrence Explananda?1326.5What is Fodor and Pylyshyn's "Real" Argument?1356.6The Tracking Argument and the Arguments from Psychological Processes1376.7Taking Stock1467The Systematicity Arguments Applied to Connectionism1517.1Chalmers's Active-Passive Transformation Model1527.2Hadley and Hayward's Model of Strong Semantic Systematicity1607.3Taking Stock1738Functional Combinatorialism1758.1Godel numerals1778.2Smolensky's Tensor Product Theory1878.3Taking Stock1969An Alternative Cognitive Architecture20710Taking the Brain Seriously22510.1The Fundamental Neuropsychological Inference22710.2More History of Science22910.3The Inductive Risks of Neuropsychology23310.4Parallel Distributed Processing23610.5The Risk of Taking the Brain Seriously24011Putting Matters in Perspective243References249Index253
