The Systematicity Arguments
This book addresses a part of a problem. The problem is to determine the architecture of cognition, that is, the basic structures and mechanisms underlying cognitive processing. This is a multidimensional problem insofar as there appear to be many distinc
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STUDIES IN BRAIN AND MIND SERIES EDITORS: John W. Bickle, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Kenneth J. Sufka, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi
THE SYSTEMATICITY ARGUMENTS
by
Kenneth Aizawa Centenary College of Louisiana, USA.
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Title: THE SYSTEMA TICITY ARGUMENTS Author: Kenneth Aizawa ISBN 978-1-4020-7284-0 ISBN 978-1-4615-0275-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-0275-3 A c.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
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For my parents, with much love.
CONTENTS Preface .......................................................,................................................... Xl Acknowledgments ......................................................................................... xv l. The Structure of Cognitive Representations .............................................. 1 1.1 Some Theories of Cognitive Architecture ........................................... I 1.2 An Outline for the Book ... '" .......... ', .................................................. 13 2. Some History and Philosophy of Science ................................................ 19 2.1 Copernican and Ptolemaic Astronomy .............................................. 21 2.2 Darwinian Evolution and Creationism .............................................. 25 2.3 What these Arguments have in Common .......................................... 27 2.4 Some Broader Implications of our Explanatory Standards ............... 36 2.5 Taking Stock ..................................................................................... 39 3. The Productivity of Thought .................................................................... 43 3.1 The Productivity Argument .............................................................. 44 4. The Systematicity ofInference ................................................................. 57 4.1 What is the Systematicity of Inference? ............................................ 57 4.2 The Case Against the Systematicity of Inference .............................. 64 4.3 Explaining the Systematicity of Inference.......................................... 73 4.4 Taking Stock .............................................................................
