The Systematicity Arguments

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. Language: English