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Connectionist Semantics and the Collateral Information Challenge
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Garzoan, Francisco Calvo |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Abstract | Jerry Fodor and Ernest Lepore have launched a powerful attack against Paul Churchland's connectionist theory of semantics - aka State Space Semantics. In one part of their overall attack, they exploit the potentially orthogonal histories of different individuals to introduce what they labeled 'the collateral information problem'. Aarre Laakso and Gary Cottrell have recently put forward a mathematical technique for measuring conceptual similarity across neural networks. Churchland uses Laakso and Cottrell's technique to defend State Space Semantics. In this paper I shall highlight a potential problem for Laakso and Clottrell's technique, and for Churchland's subsequent defence of connectionist semantics that has been ignored in the connectionist literature. I shall argue that a connectionist sympathiser of Churchland could not make use of Laakso and Cottrell's 's neurosimulations to address Fodor and Lepore's collateral information challenge. |
| Starting Page | 77 |
| Ending Page | 94 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-0017.00215 |
| Volume Number | 18 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.um.es/logica/paco_calvo/collateral%20challenge1.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
