Includes bibliographies and index.

In 1988, Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn challenged connectionist theorists to explain the systematicity of cognition. In a highly influential critical analysis of connectionism, they argued that connectionist explanations, at best, can only inform us about details of the neural substrate; explanations at the cognitive level must be classical insofar as adult human cognition is essentially systematic. This volume reassesses Fodor and Pylyshyn's 'systematicity challenge' for a post-connectionist era, covering the most important recent developments in the systematicity debate.

Preface -- I -- 1 Systematicity: An Overview -- 2 Can an ICS Architecture Meet the Systematicity and Productivity Challenges? -- 3 Tough Times to Be Talking Systematicity -- II -- 4 PDP and Symbol Manipulation: What's Been Learned Since 1986? -- 5 Systematicity in the Lexicon: On Having Your Cake and Eating It Too -- 6 Getting Real about Systematicity -- 7 Systematicity and the Need for Encapsulated Representations -- 8 How Limited Systematicity Emerges: A Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Approach -- 9 A Category Theory Explanation for Systematicity: Universal Constructions -- III -- 10 Systematicity and Architectural Pluralism -- 11 Systematicity Laws and Explanatory Structures in the Extended Mind -- 12 Systematicity and Conceptual Pluralism -- 13 Neo-Empiricism and the Structure of Thoughts -- IV -- 14 Systematicity and Interaction Dominance -- 15 From Systematicity to Interactive Regularities: Grounding Cognition at the Sensorimotor Level -- 16 The Emergence of Systematicity in Minimally Cognitive Agents -- 17 Order and Disorders in the Form of Thought: The Dynamics of Systematicity -- Contributors -- Index.

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