The Philosophy of Psychology
subjects. Whatever you might think about the long-term future of folk psychology, at the present time there is really no other a ...
3 Modularity and nativism In this chapter we consider how the human mind develops, and the general structure of its organisation ...
1 Some background on empiricism and nativism Issues of current interest concerning the extent to which human cognition is innate ...
ticipatory perspective – as if we were alien scientists – we would see that all the basic cognitive capacities are shared by mem ...
from less powerful machines which were organised along modular lines – rather, one would expect these modular systems to have be ...
selective eYcacy of environmental pressures. So one might wonder whether empiricists could not avail themselves of a similar res ...
cognitive development. Nativism is primarily supported, not by thepov- ertyof the stimulus, but by thedegree of convergencein th ...
whereas in learning a language one has to master complex phonetic and syntactic systems, and the rules which assign semantic pro ...
systems which would provide simulations ofgeneral, as opposed to do- main-speciWc, learning. But this hope has not been borne ou ...
explanation of how this organisation is replicated is that there are innate programs controlling the functional development of c ...
these techniques (habituation and dishabituation paradigms) deserve recognition both for their extreme ingenuity and for the ext ...
ties,Wnding the acquisition of new skills and new information diYcult. But they acquire language relatively normally, and the ev ...
Figure 3.1 Some important regions of the human brain (left view of left hemisphere) understand normal speech, comes in a great v ...
hope of understanding them on the hypothesis that the functional or- ganisation of the mind is a hierarchy of modules. 3.3 Brain ...
out to map onto brain areas to the extent that they do. For we were long ago convinced of the falsity of type-identity theories ...
there is encapsulation to the extent that modules are unable to make use of anything other than their own proprietary sources of ...
Figure 3.2 The Mu ̈ller-Lyer illusion Informational encapsulation is a key feature of modules in Fodor’s account of the modulari ...
stimuli in the occipital cortex. These stimuli are then processed by the visual system in the normal way (Kosslyn, 1994). This m ...
5 Input systems versus central systems Characterising their main cognitive functions in an ordinary and un- theoretical way, cen ...
modules provided their domains are diVerent from the domains of input modules, and provided such conceptual modules can take the ...
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