There has been much discussion recently about the scope and limits of purely symbolic
models of the mind and about the proper role of connectionism in cognitive modeling. This …

In the nineteen eighties, a lot of ink was spent on the question of symbol grounding, largely
triggered by Searle's Chinese Room story (Searle, 1980). Searle's article had the advantage …

Presents an embodied account of symbolic operations, proceeding from the neural
simulation of concrete concepts to how these relate to abstract concepts and symbols. This …

Signs and symbols relate to concepts and can be used to speak about objects, actions, and
their features. Theories of semantic grounding address the question how the latter two …

Symbols should be grounded, as has been argued before. But we insist that they should be
grounded not only in subsymbolic activities, but also in the interaction between the agent …

A foundational principle of modern cognitive science is the physical symbol system
hypothesis, which states simply that human cognition is the product of a physical symbol …

The primary purpose of this article is to reply to the central point of (1988) critique of
connectionism. The direct reply to their critique comprises Section 2 of this paper. In short, I …

Jackendoff (2002) posed four challenges that linguistic combinatoriality and rules of
language present to theories of brain function. The essence of these problems is the …

Abstract Searle's Chinese Room Argument (that rule-based symbol manipulation is not
enough for symbol-understanding) is based on a symptom of the Symbol Grounding …

The philosophy of cognitive science has recently become one of the most exciting and
fastest growing domains of philosophical inquiry and analysis. Until the early 1980s, nearly …