Against neuroclassicism: On the perils of armchair neuroscience

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dc.citation.firstpage329
dc.citation.issueNumber3
dc.citation.journalTitleMind & Language
dc.citation.lastpage355
dc.citation.volumeNumber37
dc.contributor.authorMorgan, Alex
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-16T15:37:33Z
dc.date.available2022-06-16T15:37:33Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractNeuroclassicism is the view that cognition is explained by “classical” computing mechanisms in the nervous system that exhibit a clear demarcation between processing machinery and read–write memory. The psychologist C. R. Gallistel has mounted a sophisticated defense of neuroclassicism by drawing from ethology and computability theory to argue that animal brains necessarily contain read–write memory mechanisms. This argument threatens to undermine the “connectionist” orthodoxy in contemporary neuroscience, which does not seem to recognize any such mechanisms. In this paper I argue that the neuroclassicist critique rests on a misunderstanding of how computability theory constrains theorizing about natural computing mechanisms.
dc.identifier.citationMorgan, Alex. "Against neuroclassicism: On the perils of armchair neuroscience." <i>Mind & Language,</i> 37, no. 3 (2022) Wiley: 329-355. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12304.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12304
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/112465
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.titleAgainst neuroclassicism: On the perils of armchair neuroscience
dc.typeJournal article
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