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LANGUAGE OF THOUGHT IN CONTEXT OF COMPUTATIONAL THEORY OF MIND
Sinitsa Andrei Stepanovich
L'vov State University of Physical Culture, Ukraine
Abstract. The author analyzes the content of the notion "language of thought", one of the crucial points in explaining the functioning of mind within J. Fodor and S. Pinker’s computational theory, states that N. Khomskii’s innate knowledge doctrine and universal grammar influenced the development of this theory, and contrasts J. Fodor’s version of computationalism and S. Pinker’s one, as far as the former is anti-reductionistic, while the latter is evolutionistic.
Key words and phrases: язык мысли, модулярность сознания, грамматический ген, компьютационализм, философия сознания, language of thought, modularity of mind, grammar gene, computationalism, philosophy of mind
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