ABSTRACT
Not unlike behaviorism in the 1960s, cognitive science has dominated psychology in the 1980s. Due to the emergence of the ecological approach to perception (Gibson, 1986/1979) however, as well as the revival of connectionist, or parallel distributed processing approaches (Rumelhart & McClelland, 1986), the cognitive view of mind is no longer the only game in town. I therefore investigate what the survival chances for the cognitive-science mind are, starting with Pylyshyn's (1984) optimistic view in this respect. After a brief discussion of his familiar research program, I signal some of the shortcomings of this approach and discuss whether modifications could keep the paradigm on a winning track.
