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Dupre, G (2022) Public language, private language, and subsymbolic theories of mind. Mind and Language. ISSN 0268-1064

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Abstract

Language has long been a problem-case for subsymbolic theories of mind. The reason for this is obvious: Language seems essentially symbolic. However, recent work has developed a potential solution to this problem, arguing that linguistic symbols are public objects which augment a fundamentally subsymbolic mind, rather than components of cognitive symbol-processing. I shall argue that this strategy cannot work, on the grounds that human language acquisition consists in projecting linguistic structure onto environmental entities, rather than extracting this structure from them.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution andreproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.© 2022 The Author.Mind & Languagepublished by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Uncontrolled Keywords: bootstrapping; connectionism; developmental linguistics; extended mind; generative linguistics; symbolic cognition
Subjects: J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
J Political Science > JC Political theory
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social, Political and Global Studies
Depositing User: Symplectic
Date Deposited: 17 Mar 2022 11:04
Last Modified: 22 Apr 2022 13:37
URI: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/10716

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