David Lobina

David Lobina David J. Lobina is a professor in cognitive psychology at UDIMA, Spain. He specialises in the study of cognition and has a special interest in the relationship between language and thought. He is the author of Recursion (2017) and is currently writing a book about the logical connectives.

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Linguistics Imagine an Organism [long_description] David J. Lobina takes up Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s What is Intelligence?, which argues that advances in AI have resolved longstanding questions about intelligence, language, and cognition. Drawing on research into infant development, linguistics, and cognitive science, Lobina challenges the book’s identification of intelligence with prediction and its parallels between neural networks and the human brain, arguing instead that modern AI and human cognition operate in fundamentally different ways.
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Linguistics Just a Thought [long_description] Inner speech is inner in its inaccessibility to others, but it remains speech, and thus a part of the linguist’s remit. The volume Inner Speech: New Voices, edited by Peter Langland-Hassan and Agustín Vicente, contains papers by philosophers, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists, but linguists are sparse on the ground. This is a mistake, David Lobina argues.
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Linguistics Fodor’s Legacy [long_description] The publication of a new volume on the work of the philosopher and cognitive scientist Jerry Fodor is an opportunity to reflect on his enduring legacy. David Lobina assesses Fodor’s contributions and ideas.
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letter Basic Building Blocks
In response to “Not Only Us”
[short_description] To gain insight into the evolutionary trajectory of complex human traits like language, ought we to decompose what prima facie look like complex human abilities into basic building blocks?
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Linguistics Fiat recursio! [long_description] David Lobina and Mark Brenchley review Tom Wolfe’s The Kingdom of Speech, arguing that most accounts of Chomsky’s concept of recursion are erroneous. By clarifying just what Chomsky meant by the term, they show that Everett’s (and Wolfe’s) critique of Chomsky becomes irrelevant.

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