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Mindreading: Mental State Ascription and Cognitive Architecture
Author(s) -
Hernandez Cruz Joseph L.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0017.00079
Subject(s) - ascription , connectionism , cognitive architecture , philosophy of mind , cognitive science , psychology , computational theory of mind , cognition , theory of mind , folk psychology , cognitive psychology , epistemology , mental representation , philosophy , metaphysics , neuroscience
The debate between the theory‐theory and simulation has largely ignored issues of cognitive architecture. In the philosophy of psychology, cognition as symbol manipulation is the orthodoxy. The challenge from connectionism, however, has attracted vigorous and renewed interest. In this paper I adopt connectionism as the antecedent of a conditional: If connectionism is the correct account of cognitive archi‐tecture, then the simulation theory should be preferred over the theory‐theory. I use both developmental evidence and constraints on explanation in psychology to support this claim.