Connectionism in Context

Andy Clark

ISBN 10: 3540197168 / ISBN 13: 9783540197164

Published by Springer, Springer Feb 1992, 1992

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -1. Introduction.- Architecture and Properties l.- A Copernican Revolution.- Distributed Representations and Context Dependence.- The Nature of Thought.- 2. Action, Connectionism and Enaction: A Developmental Perspective.- Background.- Symbols, Connectionism and Innate Knowledge.- System Scale and the Control of Action.- Development, Emergence and Enaction.- Conclusion.- 3. Connectionism and Why Fodor and Pylyshyn Are Wrong.- The Case Against Connectionism.- What's Wrong with this Argument.- What's Wrong with this Defence .- On Behalf of Neural Networks.- 4. Connectionism, Classical Cognitive Science and Experimental Psychology.- Classicism Versus Connectionism.- The Psychological Data.- Theory.- Modelling.- Conclusions.- 5. Connecting Object to Symbol in Modelling Cognition.- Symbol Systems.- The Symbolic Theory of Mind.- The Symbol Grounding Problem.- Neural Nets.- Transducers and Analogue Transformations.- Robotic Capacities: Discrimination and Identification.- Philosophical Objections to Bottom-Up Grounding of Concrete and Abstract Categories.- Categorical Perception and Category-Learning.- Neural Net and CP.- Analogue Constraints on Symbols.- 6 Active Symbols and Internal Models: Towards a Cognitive Connectionism.- Criticisms of Connectionism.- The Active Symbol.- Higher-Level Processes.- Summary and Concluding Remarks.- 7. Thinking Persons and Cognitive Science.- Extending Content.- The Credentials of Cognition.- Consciousness and What It Is Like.- Conceptualized Content and the Structure of Thinking.- Inference and Causal Systernaticity.- Reconstructing the Mind.- 8. A Brief History of Connectionism and Its Psychological Implications.- Connectionist Assumptions in Earlier Psychologies.- Comparisons of Old and New Connectionism.- Conclusions.- 9. Connectionismand Artificial Intelligence as Cognitive Models.- Artificial Intelligence.- Connectionism.- Classical AI and Connectionism.- 10. The Neural Dynamics of Conversational Coherence.- Previous Research.- A Neurally Inspired Model of Coherence.- Some Experimental Results.- How Associative Is Conversation .- Final on the Purpose of Conversation.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 192 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Connectionism in Context
• Publisher: Springer, Springer Feb 1992
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540197168
• ISBN 13: 9783540197164
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 242W x 170H x 11D millimeters 242 millimeters width by 170 millimeters height by 11 millimeters depth
• Weight: 339 grams

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Synopsis

Connectionism in Context aims to broaden and extend the debate concerning the significance of connectionist models. The volume collects together a variety of perspectives by experimental and developmental psychologists, philosophers and active AI researchers. These contributions relate con- nectionist ideas to historical psychlogical debates, e.g., over behaviourism and associationism, to develop- mental and philosophical issues. The result is a volume which addresses both familiar, but central, topics such as the relation between connectionism and classical AI, and less familiar, but highly challenging topics, such as connectionism,associationism and behaviourism, the dis- tinction between perception and cognition, the role of en- vironmental structure, and the potential value ofconnec- tionism as a means of "symbol grounding". The nine essays have been written with an interdisciplinary audience in mind and avoid both technical jargon and heavy mathematics.