The Commitment to LOT
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9687378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | VÍCTOR M VERDEJO (0000-0002-7872-0206, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 313-341 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217316000408 |
| OpenAlex | W2492588476 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 71 |
I argue that acceptance of realist intentional explanations of cognitive behaviour inescapably lead to a commitment to the language of thought (LOT) and that this is, therefore, a widely held commitment of philosophers of mind. In the course of the discussion, I offer a succinct and precise statement of the hypothesis and analyze a representative series of examples of pro-LOT argumentation. After examining two cases of resistance to this line of reasoning, I show, by way of conclusion, that the commitment to LOT is an empirically substantial one in spite of the flexibility and incomplete character of the hypothesis
Argumentation theory · Character (mathematics) · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Economics · Epistemology · Flexibility (engineering) · Management · Resistance (ecology) · Statement (logic) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Social Psychology
A neurocomputational perspective
Knowledge (Explicit, Implicit and Tacit)
Seeing and Visualizing
Radical Embodied Cognitive Science
The Architecture of the Mind
Lot 2
Physical Computation
The Mind Doesn't Work That Way
Parallel Distributed Processing
Connectionism and cognitive architecture
On the proper treatment of connectionism
Mental representation
There is No Question of Physicalism
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science
The future of philosophy
Interrelations
Mind and cognition
Psychosemantics
The connectionism/classicism battle to win souls
A Study of Concepts
Reasoning based on categorisation for interpreting and acting
Interaction without reduction
Thinking With Maps
A Not "Merely Empirical" Argument for a Language of Thought
LOT, CTM, and the Elephant in the Room
The systematicity challenge to anti-representational dynamicism
Systematicity redux
The mundane mental language
Syntax in A Dynamic Brain
Knowledge of Rules, Causal Systematicity, and the Language of Thought
Studies in the Logic of Explanation
The Languages of Thought
Cognitive Maps and the Language of Thought
What Is Cognitive Science
Computationalism in the Philosophy of Mind
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |