Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science

This volume introduces central issues in cognitive science by means of debates on key questions. The debates are written by renowned experts in the field. The debates cover the middle ground as well as the extremes Addresses topics such as the amount of innate knowledge, bounded rationality and the role of perception in action. Provides valuable overview of the field in a clear and easily comprehensible form.

Robert J. Stainton is Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He has published some 40 articles on various topics in linguistics and philosophy, and has authored or edited eight previous books, including Philosophical Perspectives on Language (1996), Knowledge and Mind (2000) and is co-editor of Philosophy and Linguistics (1999).

Acknowledgments

vii

Notes on Contributors

viii

Preface

xiii

JUST HOW MODULAR IS THE MIND?

1

(56)

1 The Case for Massively Modular Models of Mind

Peter Carruthers

3

(19)

2 Is the Mind Really Modular?

Jesse J. Prinz

22

(15)

3 Is the Human Mind Massively Modular?

Richard Samuels

37

(20)

HOW MUCH KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE IS INNATE?

57

(56)

4 Irrational Nativist Exuberance

Barbara C. Scholz and Geoffrey K. Pullum

59

(22)

5 The Case for Linguistic Nativism

Robert J. Matthews

81

(16)

6 On the Innateness of Language

James McGilvray

97

(16)

HAS COGNITIVE SCIENCE SHOWN THAT HUMAN BEINGS ARE COGNITIVELY BOUNDED, OR IRRATIONAL?

113

(32)

7 Bounded and Rational

Gerd Gigerenzer

115

(19)

8 Bounded Rationality and the Enlightenment Picture of Cognitive Virtue

David Matheson

134

(11)

ARE RULES AND REPRESENTATIONS NECESSARY TO EXPLAIN SYSTEMATICITY?

145

(42)

9 Cognition Needs Syntax but not Rules

Terence Horgan and John Tienson

147

(12)

10 Phenomena and Mechanisms: Putting the Symbolic, Connectionist, and Dynamical Systems Debate in Broader Perspective

Adele Abrahamsen and William Bechtel

159

(28)

CAN CONSCIOUSNESS AND QUALIA BE REDUCED?

187

(30)

11 Consciousness and Qualia Can Be Reduced

William G. Lycan

189

(13)

12 Consciousness and Qualia Cannot Be Reduced

Brie Gertler

202

(15)

DOES COGNITIVE SCIENCE NEED EXTERNAL CONTENT AT ALL?

217

(40)

13 Locating Meaning in the Mind (Where It Belongs)

Ray Jackendoff

219

(18)

14 The Intentional Inexistence of Language — But Not Cars

Georges Rey

237

(20)

IS THE AIM OF PERCEPTION TO PROVIDE ACCURATE REPRESENTATIONS?

257

(32)

15 Is the Aim of Perception to Provide Accurate Representations?

Kirk Ludwig

259

(16)

16 Is the Aim of Perception to Provide Accurate Representations? A Case for the "No" Side

Christopher Viger

275

(14)

CAN MENTAL STATES, KNOWLEDGE IN PARTICULAR, BE DIVIDED INTO A NARROW COMPONENT AND A BROAD COMPONENT?

289

(37)

17 Can Cognition be Factorized into Internal and External Components?

Timothy Williamson

291

(16)

18 The Internal and External Components of Cognition

Ralph Wedgwood

307

(19)

Index

326

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