INFORMATION AND SUSTAINING MECHANISMS IN FODOR'S THEORY OF CONTENT

According to Fodor's informational approach, mental symbols have content by virtue of standing in certain nomic relations with their referents. These relations are sustained by computational mechanisms which enable the causal route linking mental symbols with the world. Fodor claims, however, t...

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Autor principal:	Aguilera,Bernardo
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad de Talca. Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos 2016
Materias:	Informational approach to content computational theory of mind mental symbols reference asymmetric dependence theory
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-237620160002000022016-12-27INFORMATION AND SUSTAINING MECHANISMS IN FODOR'S THEORY OF CONTENTAguilera,Bernardo Informational approach to content computational theory of mind mental symbols reference asymmetric dependence theory According to Fodor's informational approach, mental symbols have content by virtue of standing in certain nomic relations with their referents. These relations are sustained by computational mechanisms which enable the causal route linking mental symbols with the world. Fodor claims, however, that specifying the structure of those sustaining mechanisms is irrelevant for a theory of content. This paper argues that, on the contrary, without an account of the computational constraints under which those mechanisms operate, Fodor's theory is at best incomplete, and incapable of explaining what makes us the only known computing machine capable of bearing mental symbols so far.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Talca. Instituto de Estudios HumanísticosUniversum (Talca) v.31 n.2 20162016-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-23762016000200002en10.4067/S0718-23762016000200002
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description	According to Fodor's informational approach, mental symbols have content by virtue of standing in certain nomic relations with their referents. These relations are sustained by computational mechanisms which enable the causal route linking mental symbols with the world. Fodor claims, however, that specifying the structure of those sustaining mechanisms is irrelevant for a theory of content. This paper argues that, on the contrary, without an account of the computational constraints under which those mechanisms operate, Fodor's theory is at best incomplete, and incapable of explaining what makes us the only known computing machine capable of bearing mental symbols so far.
author	Aguilera,Bernardo
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title	INFORMATION AND SUSTAINING MECHANISMS IN FODOR'S THEORY OF CONTENT
title_short	INFORMATION AND SUSTAINING MECHANISMS IN FODOR'S THEORY OF CONTENT
title_full	INFORMATION AND SUSTAINING MECHANISMS IN FODOR'S THEORY OF CONTENT
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publisher	Universidad de Talca. Instituto de Estudios Humanísticos
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