VOLUME 6 (1993), ISSUE 3

Manuscripts:

R. PETER HOBSON
The emotional origins of social understanding

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D. LYNN HOLT
Rationality is hard work: An alternative interpretation of the disruptive effects of thinking about reasons

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WILLIAM O'DONAHUE
The spell of Kuhn on psychology: An exegetical elixir

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KENNETH LIVINGSTON
What Fodor means: Some thoughts on reading Jerry Fodor's A theory of content and other essays

• Abstract: Jerry Fodor's Asymmetric Dependency Theory (ADT) of meaning is discussed in the context of his attempt to avoid holism and the relativism it entails. Questions are raised about the implications of the theory for psychological theories of meaning, and brief suggestions are offered for how to more closely link a theory of meaning to a theory of perception.

Symposium: Connectionism and Compositionality

DAVID J. CHALMERS
Connectionism and compositionality: Where Fodor & Pylyshyn were wrong

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KEITH BUTLER
Connectionism, classical cognitivism, and the relation between cognitive and implementational levels of analysis

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Book Reviews:

GEORGE MANDLER
Review of DANIEL C. DENNETT's Consciousness explained

JAMES FETZER
Review of MERLIN DONALD's Origins of the modern mind: The three stages of evolution of culture and cognition

HOLLY A. TAYLOR
Reviews of WILLIAM FRIEDMAN's About time: Inventing the fourth dimension

REBECCA MUELLER & ARTHUR C. HOUTS
Review of S.S. RAKOVER's Metapsychology: Missing links between behavior, mind, and science

ROBERT C. WELSHON
Review of STEVE FULLER's Philosophy of science and its discontents

CLYDE L. HARDIN
Reviews of JULES DAVIDOFF's Cognition through color

ROBERT L. ARRINGTON
Review of CORA DIAMOND's The realistic spirit: Wittgenstein, philosophy, and the mind