The Architecture of Cognition: Rethinking Fodor and Pylyshyn's Systematicity Challenge

by Paco Calvo and John Symons

Philosophers and cognitive scientists reassess systematicity in the post-connectionist era, offering perspectives from ecological psychology, embodied and distributed cognition, enactivism, and other methodologies.

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262027232
• ISBN13: 9780262027236
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher