Philosophy and connectionist theory / edited by William Ramsey, Stephen P. Stich, David E. Rumelhart.

Contributor Ramsey, William M., 1960-

Imprint:Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1991.

Descriptionxiii, 320 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:I. CONNECTIONISM AND OTHER STYLES OF COGNITIVEV MODELING: 1. Horses of a different color? / Margaret A. Boden -- 2. Mother Nature versus the walking encyclopedia: a western drama / Daniel C. Dennett -- II. REPRESENTATION IN CONNECTIONIST MODELS: 3. What is the "D" in "PDP"? A survey of the concept of distribution / Tim van Gelder -- 4. Representational genera / John Haugeland -- 5. The role of representation in connectionist explanations of cognitive capacities / Robert Cummins -- 6. In defense of explicit rules / Andy Clark -- 7. The concept of representation and the representation of concepts in connectionist models / Thomas Goschke, Dirk Koppelberg -- 8. Representation in perception and cognition: connectionist affordances / Gary Hatfield -- III. PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CONNECTIONISM: 9. Connectionism, eliminativism, and future of folk psychology / William Ramsey, Stephen P. Stich, Joseph Garon -- 10. Concepts, connectionism, and the language of thought / Martin Davies -- 11. Homuncular functionalism meets PDP / William Lycan -- 12. Connectionism and three levels of nativism / William Ramsey, Stephen P. Stich.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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