[Read now] The Mind Doesn't Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology
❀ Jerry A. Fodor ❀
| #1418411 in Books | 2001-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.25 x5.38l,.36 | File Name: 0262561468 | 144 pages
||40 of 41 people found the following review helpful.| Good-bye evolutionary psych?|By David H Miller|This book is an attack by an "insider" on the contemporary disciplines of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology. Fodor does not deny that there are some valid aspects to these two disciplines. Rather, he rejects their extravagant claims to have successfully explained "The Way the Mind Works," to quote the title of|.com |Criticism from within always stings more sharply. When one of computational psychology's peppiest cheerleaders questions the enthusiasm of his fellows, we can expect some juicy, if civil, dialogue ahead. Jerry Fodor does just this in The Mind Doesn't
In this engaging book, Jerry Fodor argues against the widely held view that mental processes are largely computations, that the architecture of cognition is massively modular, and that the explanation of our innate mental structure is basically Darwinian. Although Fodor has praised the computational theory of mind as the best theory of cognition that we have got, he considers it to be only a fragment of the truth. In fact, he claims, cognitive scientists do not reall...
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