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Full Idea
The most important thing that has happened in cognitive science was Turing's invention of the notion of mechanical rationality (because some inferences are rational in virtue of the syntax of their sentences).
Gist of Idea
Turing invented the idea of mechanical rationality (just based on syntax)
Source
Jerry A. Fodor (In a Critical Condition [2000], Ch.17)
Book Ref
Fodor,Jerry A.: 'In Critical Condition' [MIT 2000], p.204
| 23344 | Reason itself must be compounded from some of our impressions [Epictetus] |
| 23247 | The need to act produces consciousness, and practical reason is the root of all reason [Fichte] |
| 22035 | The structure of reason is a social and historical achievement [Hegel, by Pinkard] |
| 3812 | Rationality is the way we coordinate our intentionality [Searle] |
| 3806 | Rationality is built into the intentionality of the mind, and its means of expression [Searle] |
| 2505 | Turing invented the idea of mechanical rationality (just based on syntax) [Fodor] |
| 2463 | A standard naturalist view is realist, externalist, and computationalist, and believes in rationality [Fodor] |
| 1584 | Modern science, by aiming for clarity about the external world, has abandoned rationality in the human world [Roochnik] |
| 3125 | Psychology studies the way rationality links desires and beliefs to causality [Segal] |