1st Edition
The Symbolic and Connectionist Paradigms Closing the Gap
Edited By John Dinsmore
Copyright 1992
280 Pages
by
Psychology Press
312 Pages
by
Psychology Press
280 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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The modern study of cognition finds itself with two widely endorsed but seemingly incongruous theoretical paradigms. The first of these, inspired by formal logic and the digital computer, sees reasoning in the principled manipulation of structured symbolic representations. The second, inspired by the physiology of the brain, sees reasoning as the behavior that emerges from the direct interactions... Read more
Contents: J. Dinsmore, Thunder in the Gap. D.J. Chalmers, Subsymbolic Computation and the Chinese Room. F. Adams, K. Aizawa, G. Fuller, Rules in Programming Languages and Networks. K. Aizawa, Biology and Sufficiency in Connectionist Theory. J. Schwartz, Who's Afraid of Multiple Realizability?: Functionalism, Reductionism and Connectionism. D.S. Blank, L.A. Meeden, J.B. Marshall, Exploring the Symbolic/Subsymbolic Continuum: A Case Study of RAAM. J. Barnden, Connectionism, Generalization and Propositional Attitudes: A Catalogue of Challenging Issues. C-D. Lee, M. Gasser, Where Do Underlying Representations Come From?: A Connectionist Approach to the Acquisition of Phonological Rules. S.C. Kwasny, K.A. Faisal, Symbolic Paring via Subsymbolic Rules. T.E. Lange, Hybrid Connectionist Models: Temporary Bridges Over the Gap Between the Symbolic and the Subsymbolic.
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Edited by Dinsmore, John
