...: the “standard view” and the “alternative view”. The chapter also discusses the scope of computationalism and the possible restrictions on the domains in which the economy principles of language apply. Chomsky N Computational efficiency principles of PCE Faculty of language FL Hominid set Last resort Least...

... the degree to which different E-approaches move away from the cognitivist commitments to representationalism, computationalism and mechanistic explanation. Against this backdrop, it becomes clear in which ways REC’s proposal is not just radically revisionary but revolutionary in spirit. The chapter also sets...

... of thoughts and the minds that have them, but it is not without problems. This book focuses on these problems and the attempts at resolving them by explaining the computational nature of the central system instead of holding the self-defeating position that computationalism stops at the modules. Fodor Jerry...