Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology

by Terence Horgan and John Tienson

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Human cognition is soft. It is too flexible, too rich and too open-ended to be captured by hard (precise, exceptionless) rules of the sort that can constitute a computer programme. In Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology, Horgan and Tienson articulate and defend a new view of cognition. In place of the classical paradigm that takes the mind to be a computer (or a group of linked computers), they propose that the mind is best understood as a dynamical system realized in a neural network.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0262082489

ISBN13:9780262082488

Release Date:May 1996

Publisher:MIT Press (MA)

Length:207 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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