PSYC 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jerry Fodor, Jean Piaget, Swiss Army Knife
5 Mar 2018
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Domain specific because talking about different types of reasoning. Flourens (1794-1867): all sensory and volitional faculties exist in the cerebral hemispheres and must be regarded as occupying concurrently the same seat in these structures . Historical roots: origins of domain specificity, early example of domain general view, paul broca (1824-1880) Meeting of the anthropology society in paris (1861) Left frontal lobe is seat of speech . Extreme domain-specificity: modularity: popular scientific press, your brain is not a general-purpose computer with one unified central processor. It is an assemblage of competing subsystems sometimes called modules specialized for particular tasks (s. johnson, 2004) computational process and only those processes: jerry fodor, the modularity of mind (1983) Modules are mental organs that are predisposed to perform specific types of. What i take to be perhaps the most important aspect of modularity (is) something that.
