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  • The Architecture of Cognition: Rethinking Fodor and Pylyshyn's Systematicity Challenge
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  • Paco Calvo
  • 2014
  • Published by: The MIT Press
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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. More than twenty-five years later, however, conflicting explanations of cognition do not divide along classicist-connectionist lines, but oppose cognitivism (both classicist and connectionist) with a range of other methodologies, including distributed and embodied cognition, ecological psychology, enactivism, adaptive behavior, and biologically based neural network theory. This volume reassesses Fodor and Pylyshyn's "systematicity challenge" for a post-connectionist era. The contributors consider such questions as how post-connectionist approaches meet Fodor and Pylyshyn's conceptual challenges; whether there is empirical evidence for or against the systematicity of thought; and how the systematicity of human thought relates to behavior. The chapters offer a representative sample and an overview of the most important recent developments in the systematicity debate.<B>Contributors</B>Ken Aizawa, William Bechtel, Gideon Borensztajn, Paco Calvo, Anthony Chemero, Jonathan D. Cohen, Alicia Coram, Jeffrey L. Elman, Stefan L. Frank, Antoni Gomila, Seth A. Herd, Trent Kriete, Christian J. Lebiere, Lorena Lobo, Edouard Machery, Gary Marcus, Emma Martín, Fernando Martínez-Manrique, Brian P. McLaughlin, Randall C. O'Reilly, Alex A. Petrov, Steven Phillips, William Ramsey, Michael Silberstein, John Symons, David Travieso, William H. Wilson, Willem Zuidema

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. I
  1. 1. Systematicity: An Overview
  2. John Symons and Paco Calvo
  3. pp. 3-30
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  1. 2. Can an ICS Architecture Meet the Systematicity and Productivity Challenges?
  2. Brian P. McLaughlin
  3. pp. 31-76
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  1. 3. Tough Times to Be Talking Systematicity
  2. Ken Aizawa
  3. pp. 77-100
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  1. II
  1. 4. PDP and Symbol Manipulation: What’s Been Learned Since 1986?
  2. Gary Marcus
  3. pp. 103-114
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  1. 5. Systematicity in the Lexicon: On Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
  2. Jeffrey L. Elman
  3. pp. 115-146
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  1. 6. Getting Real about Systematicity
  2. Stefan L. Frank
  3. pp. 147-164
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  1. 7. Systematicity and the Need for Encapsulated Representations
  2. Gideon Borensztajn, Willem Zuidema, and William Bechtel
  3. pp. 165-190
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  1. 8. How Limited Systematicity Emerges: A Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Approach
  2. Randall C. O ’ Reilly, Alex A. Petrov, Jonathan D. Cohen, Christian J. Lebiere, Seth A. Herd, and Trent Kriete
  3. pp. 191-226
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  1. 9. A Category Theory Explanation for Systematicity: Universal Constructions
  2. Steven Phillips and William H. Wilson
  3. pp. 227-250
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  1. III
  1. 10. Systematicity and Architectural Pluralism
  2. William Ramsey
  3. pp. 253-276
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  1. 11. Systematicity Laws and Explanatory Structures in the Extended Mind
  2. Alicia Coram
  3. pp. 277-304
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  1. 12. Systematicity and Conceptual Pluralism
  2. Fernando Mart í nez-Manrique
  3. pp. 305-334
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  1. 13. Neo-Empiricism and the Structure of Thoughts
  2. Edouard Machery
  3. pp. 335-350
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  1. IV
  1. 14. Systematicity and Interaction Dominance
  2. Anthony Chemero
  3. pp. 353-370
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  1. 15. From Systematicity to Interactive Regularities: Grounding Cognition at the Sensorimotor Level
  2. David Travieso, Antoni Gomila, and Lorena Lobo
  3. pp. 371-396
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  1. 16. The Emergence of Systematicity in Minimally Cognitive Agents
  2. Paco Calvo, Emma Martín, and John Symons
  3. pp. 397-434
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  1. 17. Order and Disorders in the Form of Thought: The Dynamics of Systematicity
  2. Michael Silberstein
  3. pp. 435-452
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 453-456
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 457-470
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