The Language of Thought
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The Language of Thought is a seminal philosophical and cognitive science work by Jerry Fodor that argues for an innate, mental "language" underlying human thought and reasoning.
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book
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cognitive science book → philosophy book → |
| approach |
computational-representational view of mind
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naturalistic explanation of cognition → |
| arguesAgainst |
associationist theories of mind
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holistic theories of meaning → radical behaviorism → |
| arguesFor |
innate cognitive structures
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modularity of certain mental processes → |
| author |
Jerry A. Fodor
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Jerry Fodor → |
| claims |
natural languages are not the medium of thought
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psychological laws are defined over mental representations → thoughts are tokenings of internal symbols → |
| field |
cognitive science
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philosophy of mind → philosophy of psychology → |
| genre |
analytic philosophy
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| hasConcept |
mentalese
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| hasImpactOnDebate |
connectionism vs. classical AI
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nativism vs. empiricism → structure of cognitive architecture → |
| influenced |
artificial intelligence
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cognitive science → computational models of cognition → debates on mental representation → debates on nativism → philosophy of language → |
| influencedBy |
Noam Chomsky
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Turing-style computation → cognitive psychology → formal logic → generative grammar → |
| mainTopic |
cognitive architecture
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cognitive science → innateness of thought → language of thought hypothesis → mental representation → philosophy of mind → |
| proposes |
mental representations have a combinatorial syntax
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mental representations have a compositional semantics → there is an internal mental language → thinking is a computational process over mental representations → thought has a language-like representational system → |
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English
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| supportsTheory |
computational theory of mind
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representational theory of mind → |
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The Language of Thought
("language of thought hypothesis")
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MIT Press
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