Associative Engines Connectionism, Concepts, and Representational Change
| Author/creator | Clark, Andy Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge : MIT Press |
| Description | 268 p. ill 09.100 x 06.100 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation Connectionist approaches, Andy Clark argues, are driving cognitive science toward aradical reconception of its explanatory endeavor. At the heart of this reconception lies a shifttoward a new and more deeply developmental vision of the mind -- a vision that has importantimplications for the philosophical and psychological understanding of the nature of concepts, ofmental causation, and of representational change.Combining philosophicalargument, empirical results, and interdisciplinary speculations, Clark charts a fundamental shiftfrom a static, inner-code-oriented conception of the subject matter of cognitive science to a moredynamic, developmentally rich, process-oriented view. Clark argues that this shift makes itself feltin two main ways. First, structured representations are seen as the products of temporally extendedcognitive activity and not as the representational bedrock (an innate symbol system or language ofthought) upon which all learning is based. Second, the relation between thoughts (as described byfolk psychology) and inner computational states is loosened as a result of the fragmented anddistributed nature of the connectionist representation of concepts.Other issuesClark 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780262513777 |
| ISBN | 0262513773 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780262513777 |
| Stock number | 0262513773 00015994 |
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