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The computational baby, the classical bathwater, and the middle way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2003

Gerard O'Brien  and
Jon Opie
Gerard O'Brien
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005 gerard.obrien@adelaide.edu.aujon.opie@adelaide.edu.au http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/philosophy/gobrien.htm http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/philosophy/jopie.htm
Jon Opie
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005 gerard.obrien@adelaide.edu.aujon.opie@adelaide.edu.au http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/philosophy/gobrien.htm http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/philosophy/jopie.htm
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Abstract

We are sympathetic with the broad aims of Perruchet & Vinter's “mentalistic” framework. But it is implausible to claim, as they do, that human cognition can be understood without recourse to unconsciously represented information. In our view, this strategy forsakes the only available mechanistic understanding of intelligent behaviour. Our purpose here is to plot a course midway between the classical unconscious and Perruchet &Vinter's own noncomputational associationism.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , June 2002 , pp. 348 - 349
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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