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Associative Engines: Connectionism, Concepts, and Representational Change - Couverture souple

Clark, Andy

 
9780262513777: Associative Engines: Connectionism, Concepts, and Representational Change
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0262513773 ISBN 13 : 9780262513777
Editeur : MIT Press, 2003

Synopsis

Connectionist approaches, Andy Clark argues, are driving cognitive science toward a radical reconception of its explanatory endeavor. At the heart of this reconception lies a shift toward a new and more deeply developmental vision of the mind - a vision that has important implications for the philosophical and psychological understanding of the nature of concepts, of mental causation, and of representational change. Combining philosophical argument, empirical results, and interdisciplinary speculations, Clark charts a fundamental shift from a static, inner-code-oriented conception of the subject matter of cognitive science to a more dynamic, developmentally rich, process-oriented view. Clark argues that this shift makes itself felt in two main ways. First, structured representations are seen as the products of temporally extended cognitive activity and not as the representational bedrock (an innate symbol system or language of thought) upon which all learning is based. Second, the relation between thoughts (as described by folk psychology) and inner computational states is loosened as a result of the fragmented and distributed nature of the connectionist representation of concepts. Other issues Clark raises include the nature of innate knowledge, the conceptual commitments of folk psychology, and the use and abuse of higher-level analyses of connectionist networks. Andy Clark is Reader in Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex, in England. He's the author of Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed Processing.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andy Clark is Doctor of Philosophy at the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex.

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Éditeur
MIT Press
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262513773
ISBN 13 
9780262513777
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
270
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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