PHIL 3030 Lecture Notes - Abductive Reasoning
19 Jul 2013
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Central systems are the basic representation are beliefs , desires and attitudes. They are part of the abductive reasoning, central systems are domain general , isotropic and quinean. the concept of modularity has played a role in debates in philosophy , epistemology and additional areas of philosophy. When talking about modularity, one name inparticular comes to mind. According to fodor there are canonical and common characeristics . Canonical are that of , domain spefcifcity , mandatory operation, limited central accessibility, fast processing and informational encapsulation. While common characteristics are fixed neural archtechture , specific breakdown patterns and innate. Given that the mind is modular in the massive modularity thesis , we can see that planning , problem soving and belief fixation are in the high level cognition functions. If the idea of massive modularity is that the brain is a domain specific processing when humans perform mental tasks in large quantities .
