| Number | 394 |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Drawer | 7 |
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| Entry Date | 11/19/1999 |
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| Authors | Kugler, P. N., Turvey, M. T., & Shaw, R. E. |
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| Publication | The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2, 303-306. |
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| Abstract | Criticizes Z. W. Pylshyn's (see PA, Vol 66:5002) suggestion that the model source for the explanatory concepts of cognitive science is the science of formal symbol-manipulating machines. The authors argue that Pylshyn fails to provide any "nontrivial" distinction between the popular model of cognition and any prototypic behaviorist model. Comments focus on dissipative structures as consequences of conditions on natural law and the explanation of "cognitive" phenomena in the nonprivileged vocabulary of physical theory. |
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