creators_name: Sperber, Dan creators_name: Wilson, Deirdre editors_name: Harnad, Stevan type: journalp datestamp: 2002-01-08 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:52 metadata_visibility: show title: Fodor's Frame Problem and Relevance Theory (reply to Chiappe & Kukla) ispublished: pub subjects: cog-psy subjects: ling-prag subjects: phil-mind full_text_status: public keywords: dan sperber, cognition, communication, culture, frame problem, jerry fodor, philosophy of mind, pragmatics, relevance, relevance theory" abstract: Chiappe and Kukla argue that relevance theory fails to solve the frame problem as defined by Fodor. They are right. They are wrong, however, to take Fodor’s frame problem too seriously. Fodor’s concerns, on the other hand, even though they are wrongly framed, are worth addressing. We argue that Relevance thoery helps address them. date: 1996-09 date_type: published publication: Behavioral and Brain Sciences volume: 19 number: 3 publisher: Cambridge University Press pagerange: 530-532 refereed: TRUE referencetext: Fodor, J.A. (1987). Modules, frames, fridgeons, sleeping dogs and the music of the spheres. In The robot's dilemma: The frame problem in artificial intelligence. ed. Z. Pylyshyn. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. Hayes, P.J. (1987). What the frame problem is and isn't. In The robot's dilemma: The frame problem in artificial intelligence. Ed. Z. Pylyshyn. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. McCarthy, J. & Hayes, P.J. (1969). Some philosophical problems from the standpoint of artificial intelligence. In Machine intelligence 4. Eds B. Meltzer & D. Michie, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Pylyshyn, Z. (ed) (1987). The robot's dilemma: The frame problem in artificial intelligence. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. Sperber, D. (1994). The modularity of thought and the epidemiology of representations. In L. A. Hirschfeld & S. A. Gelman (eds), Mapping the Mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture, New York: Cambridge University Press. Sperber, D. & Wilson, D. (1986). Relevance: Communication and cognition. Oxford: Blackwell. Sperber, D. & Wilson, D. (1987). Precis of Relevance: Communication and cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10, 697-754. Tooby, J. & Cosmides L. (1992). The psychological foundations of culture. In J. Barkow, L. Cosmides & J. Tooby (eds.) The adapted mind: Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture. New-York: Oxford University Press. citation: Sperber, Dan and Wilson, Deirdre (1996) Fodor's Frame Problem and Relevance Theory (reply to Chiappe & Kukla). [Journal (Paginated)] document_url: http://cogprints.org/2004/1/frame.htm