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Há 5 dias · Medieval faculty psychology here is primarily studied in an Aristotlelian scheme through Avicenna and the contemporary modularity theory of Jerry Fodor. This direct comparison confirms a considerable similarity between the two theories, giving us some insight into the dominant ways of thinking about the brain in both periods.
Há 2 dias · Jerry Fodor’s Modularity of Mind (1983): Fodor argues for the modular nature of cognitive functions, suggesting that different cognitive processes, including language, are managed by distinct and specialized brain modules.
Há 3 dias · Animal consciousness, or animal awareness, is the quality or state of self-awareness within an animal, or of being aware of an external object or something within itself. [2] [3] In humans, consciousness has been defined as: sentience, awareness, subjectivity, qualia, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood ...
Há 2 dias · The concepts of cognitive penetrability, and impenetrability, were initially introduced within the framework of a computational theory of the mind by Pylyshyn (1980, 1984) and Jerry Fodor . In this context, they were utilized to delineate the boundaries of a computationalist explanation for how the brain represents and manipulates the contents of propositional attitudes.
Há 3 dias · Similarly, the philosopher Jerry Fodor has argued that so-called input systems—those systems responsible for perception and language processing—are innate, domain-specific modules (Fodor [1983]). But perhaps the most recent and most radical assault on the twin assumptions of anti-nativism and non-modularity has come from the newly emerging, interdisciplinary field of evolutionary psychology.
Há 1 dia · There are various ways that contemporary philosophers have tried to describe beliefs, including as representations of ways that the world could be (Jerry Fodor), as dispositions to act as if certain things are true (Roderick Chisholm), as interpretive schemes for making sense of someone's actions (Daniel Dennett and Donald Davidson), or as mental states that fill a particular function (Hilary ...
Há 4 dias · In 2004, J. Fodor insisted that a characteristic doctrine of twentieth century philosophy of mind/language was absolutely false. He called the doctrine “Concept Pragmatism,” according to which to have the concept C is to be able to distinguish Cs from non-Cs and/or to recognize the validity of certain C-involving inferences.
