title: Fodor, functions, physics, and fantasyland: Is AI a Mickey Mouse discipline?
creator: Green, Christopher D.
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Philosophy of Science
description: It is widely held that the methods of AI are the appropriate methods for cognitive science. Fodor, however, has argued that AI bears the same relation to psychology as Disneyland does to physics. This claim is examined in light of the widespread but paradoxical acceptance of the Turing Test--a behavioral criterion of intelligence--among advocates of cognitivism. It is argued that, given the recalcitrance of certain deep conceptual problems in psychology, and disagreements concerning psychology's basic vocabulary, it is unlikely that AI will prove to be very psychologically enlightening until after some consensus on ontological issues in psychology is achieved. 
date: 1996
type: Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/1341/1/ffphf.htm
identifier:   Green, Christopher D.  (1996) Fodor, functions, physics, and fantasyland: Is AI a Mickey Mouse discipline?  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/1341/