Connectionism, Eliminativism, and the Future of Folk Psychology

Ramsey, William; Stich, Stephen; Garon, Joseph

doi:10.1007/978-94-009-1882-5_5

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“…These psychological states, such as beliefs, desires and propositional attitudes more generally, need not, of course, have simple explanations in terms of more basic networks. Indeed, there has been much controversy over the past 20 years or so, starting most notably with the work of Ramsey et al (1990), in the context of exploring the utility of simple networks in understanding the psychological states that we refer to in our folk notions of psychology. Their contention was that for particular types of networks, there exists a difficulty in establishing a correspondence between the 'modularity' of psychological states and the states that networks adopt.…”

Section: Localizing Content In Network Naturallymentioning

confidence: 99%

Polytopes as vehicles of informational content in feedforward neural networks

Azhar

2016

Philosophical Psychology

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Localizing content in neural networks provides a bridge to understanding the way in which the brain stores and processes information. In this paper, I propose the existence of polytopes in the state space of the hidden layer of feedforward neural networks as vehicles of content. I analyze these geometrical structures from an information-theoretic point of view, invoking mutual information to help define the content stored within them. I establish how this proposal addresses the problem of misclassification, and provide a novel solution to the disjunction problem, which hinges on the precise nature of the causal-informational framework for content advocated herein.

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Section: Localizing Content In Network Naturallymentioning

confidence: 99%

Polytopes as vehicles of informational content in feedforward neural networks

Azhar

2016

Philosophical Psychology

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“…This kind of argument is not uncommon, and can be found elsewhere in philosophy (Churchland [1981]; Ramsey, Stich & Garon [1990]), comparative psychology (Shettleworth [2010]), criminal law (Commons & Miller [2011]), and economics (Guala [2012]). To sum up, many have claimed that being part of explicit scientific theories and models in domains like social psychology and comparative psychology does not by itself grant PAAs the status of scientific psychology.…”

Section: )mentioning

confidence: 92%

When does ‘Folk Psychology’ Count as Folk Psychological?

Hochstein

2017

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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It has commonly been argued that certain types of mental descriptions, specifically those characterized in terms of propositional attitudes, are part of a folk psychological understanding of the mind. Recently, however, it has also been argued that this is the case even when such descriptions are employed as part of scientific theories in domains like social psychology and comparative psychology. In this paper, I argue that there is no plausible way to understand the distinction between folk and scientific psychology that can support such claims. Moreover, these sorts of claims can have adverse consequences for the neuroscientific study of the brain by downplaying the value of many psychological theories that provide information neuroscientists need in order to build and test neurological models.

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“…The interesting thing is that such networks can work and engaging in some cognitive activity, like answering a question, has some mental states that are activated and others not. 5 Smolensky 1988, Ramsey et al 1991. 6 Churchland 1992 expand in their detecting ability on their own.…”

Section: A New Account Of the Mentalmentioning

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Is Science Eliminating Ordinary Talk?

Caruana¹

1999

Forum Philosophicum

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Connectionism, Eliminativism, and the Future of Folk Psychology

Cited by 52 publications

References 23 publications

Polytopes as vehicles of informational content in feedforward neural networks

Polytopes as vehicles of informational content in feedforward neural networks

When does ‘Folk Psychology’ Count as Folk Psychological?

Is Science Eliminating Ordinary Talk?

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