Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Jerry A. Fodor, Anon (Par) and Immanuel Kant
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 2. Categories of Understanding
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Kant deduced the categories from our judgements, and then as preconditions of experience [Kant, by Houlgate]
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Kant says we can describe the categories of thought, but Hegel claims to deduce them [Kant, by Meillassoux]
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Categories are concepts that prescribe laws a priori to appearances [Kant]
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Four groups of categories of concept: Quantity, Quality, Relation and Modality [Kant]
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The categories are objectively valid, because they make experience possible [Kant]
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 3. Modularity of Mind
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Mental modules are specialised, automatic, and isolated [Fodor, by Okasha]
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Modules have encapsulation, inaccessibility, private concepts, innateness [Fodor]
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Something must take an overview of the modules [Fodor]
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Obvious modules are language and commonsense explanation [Fodor]
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Modules make the world manageable [Fodor]
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Babies talk in consistent patterns [Fodor]
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Blindness doesn't destroy spatial concepts [Fodor]
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Rationality rises above modules [Fodor]
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Modules analyse stimuli, they don't tell you what to do [Fodor]
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Modules have in-built specialist information [Fodor]
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought
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Mentalese doesn't require a theory of meaning [Fodor]
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Language is ambiguous, but thought isn't [Fodor]
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Mentalese may also incorporate some natural language [Fodor]
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Ambiguities in English are the classic reason for claiming that we don't think in English [Fodor]
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Since the language of thought is the same for all, it must be something like logical form [Fodor, by Devlin]
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Belief and desire are structured states, which need mentalese [Fodor]
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We must have expressive power BEFORE we learn language [Fodor]
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 5. Mental Files
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Mental representations name things in the world, but also files in our memory [Fodor]
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We think in file names [Fodor]
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18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 6. Artificial Thought / a. Artificial Intelligence
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Is thought a syntactic computation using representations? [Fodor, by Rey]
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Frame Problem: how to eliminate most beliefs as irrelevant, without searching them? [Fodor]
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