1st Edition
Philosophy and Connectionist Theory
336 Pages
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Psychology Press
348 Pages
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Psychology Press
336 Pages
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Psychology Press
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The philosophy of cognitive science has recently become one of the most exciting and fastest growing domains of philosophical inquiry and analysis. Until the early 1980s, nearly all of the models developed treated cognitive processes -- like problem solving, language comprehension, memory, and higher visual processing -- as rule-governed symbol manipulation. However, this situation has changed... Read more
Contents: D.E. Rumelhart, Series Foreword. Preface. Part I:Connectionism and Other Styles of Cognitive Modeling. M.A. Boden, Horses of a Different Color? D.C. Dennett, Mother Nature Versus the Walking Encyclopedia: A Western Drama. Part II:Representation in Connectionist Models. T. van Gelder, What is the "D" in "PDP"? A Survey of the Concept of Distribution. J. Haugeland, Representational Genera. R. Cummins, The Role of Representation in Connectionist Explanations of Cognitive Capacities. A. Clark, In Defense of Explicit Rules. T. Goschke, D. Koppelberg, The Concept of Representation and the Representation of Concepts in Connectionist Models. G. Hatfield, Representation in Perception and Cognition: Connectionist Affordances. Part III:Philosophical Implications of Connectionism. W. Ramsey, S.P. Stich, J. Garon, Connectionism, Eliminativism and the Future of Folk Psychology. M. Davies, Concepts, Connectionism, and the Language of Thought. W. Lycan, Homuncular Functionalism Meets PDP. W. Ramsey, S.P. Stich, Connectionism and Three Levels of Nativism.
Biography
Stephen P. Stich, William Ramsey, David E. Rumelhart
"...contains a number of interesting and surprising conclusions supported by clear and cogent argumentation....will be of interest not only to those interested in connectionism, but to those who take an interest in the language of thought hypothesis and what it is for a system to have knowledge of a rule."
—Mind & Language
