In Critical Condition: Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind

Cover + Back......Page 1
Preface......Page 3
1 Review of John McDowell 's Mind and World......Page 5
2 Special Sciences: Still Autonomous after All TheseYears (A Reply to Jaegwon Kim 's "MultipleRealization and the Metaphysics of Reduction ")......Page 11
PART II - Concepts......Page 27
3 Review of Christopher Peacocke's A Study of Concepts......Page 28
4 There Are No Recognitional Concepts- Not EvenRED......Page 36
5 There Are No RecognitionaCl oncept-s Not EvenRED, Part 2: The Plot Thickens......Page 49
6 Do We Think in Mentalese ? Remarks on SomeArguments of Peter Carruthers......Page 63
7 Review of A. W. Moore's Points of View......Page 75
PART III - Cognitive Architecture......Page 81
8 Review of Paul Churchland's s TheE ngineo f Reaso,nThe Seat of the Soul......Page 82
9 Connectionism and the Problem of Systematicity :Why Smolensky's Solution Doesn't Work......Page 89
10 Connectionism and the Problemo f Systematicity(Continued): Why Smolensky's Sqlution Still Doesn'tWork......Page 110
11 There and Back Again: A Reviewo f AnnetteKarmilof-fS mithsBeyond Modularity......Page 123
12 Review of Jeff Elman et al., Rethinking Innateness......Page 139
13 Review of Steven Mithen's The Prehistory of the Mind......Page 148
PART IV - Philosophical Darwinism......Page 156
14 Review of Richard Dawkins 's Climbing MountImprobable......Page 157
15 Deconstructing Dennet'st Darwin......Page 164
16 Is Science Biologically Possible? Comments on SomeArguments of Patricia Church land and of AlvinPlantinga......Page 181
17 Review of Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works andHenry Plotkin 's Evolution in Mind......Page 195
References......Page 207
Index......Page 209