Logical Reasoning and Expertise: Extolling the Virtues of Connectionist Account of Enthymemes
Abstract
Cognitive scientists used to deem reasoning either as a higher cognitive process based on the manipulation of abstract rules or as a higher cognitive process that is stochastic rather than involving abstract rules. I maintain that these different perspectives are closely intertwined with a theoretical and methodological endorsement of either cognitivism or connectionism. Cognitivism and connectionism represent two prevailing and opposed paradigms in cognitive science. I aim to extoll the virtues of connectionist models of enthymematic reasoning by the following means: (1) via the phenomenon of creative enthymeme, viz. the inference where one cannot even articulate the missing premise, I introduce a connectionist mechanism of pattern recognition as underlying expertise; (2) via Gestalt switch or Gestalt click, I demonstrate how differences in pattern recognition of an expert and a novice can be construed as qualitatively different, and not merely a matter of faster reasoning.
Keywords:
William Bechtel / pattern / expertise / enthymemes / connectionism / cognitivismSource:
Filozofska istraživanja, 2021, 41, 1, 197-211Publisher:
- Croatian Philosophical Soc, Zagreb
Funding / projects:
DOI: 10.21464/fi41112
ISSN: 0351-4706
WoS: 000629650100013
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85103479387
Institution/Community
Filozofija / PhilosophyTY - JOUR AU - Subotić, Vanja PY - 2021 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3311 AB - Cognitive scientists used to deem reasoning either as a higher cognitive process based on the manipulation of abstract rules or as a higher cognitive process that is stochastic rather than involving abstract rules. I maintain that these different perspectives are closely intertwined with a theoretical and methodological endorsement of either cognitivism or connectionism. Cognitivism and connectionism represent two prevailing and opposed paradigms in cognitive science. I aim to extoll the virtues of connectionist models of enthymematic reasoning by the following means: (1) via the phenomenon of creative enthymeme, viz. the inference where one cannot even articulate the missing premise, I introduce a connectionist mechanism of pattern recognition as underlying expertise; (2) via Gestalt switch or Gestalt click, I demonstrate how differences in pattern recognition of an expert and a novice can be construed as qualitatively different, and not merely a matter of faster reasoning. PB - Croatian Philosophical Soc, Zagreb T2 - Filozofska istraživanja T1 - Logical Reasoning and Expertise: Extolling the Virtues of Connectionist Account of Enthymemes EP - 211 IS - 1 SP - 197 VL - 41 DO - 10.21464/fi41112 ER -
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Subotić, V.. (2021). Logical Reasoning and Expertise: Extolling the Virtues of Connectionist Account of Enthymemes. in Filozofska istraživanja Croatian Philosophical Soc, Zagreb., 41(1), 197-211. https://doi.org/10.21464/fi41112
Subotić V. Logical Reasoning and Expertise: Extolling the Virtues of Connectionist Account of Enthymemes. in Filozofska istraživanja. 2021;41(1):197-211. doi:10.21464/fi41112 .
Subotić, Vanja, "Logical Reasoning and Expertise: Extolling the Virtues of Connectionist Account of Enthymemes" in Filozofska istraživanja, 41, no. 1 (2021):197-211, https://doi.org/10.21464/fi41112 . .