Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology

by Terence Horgan and John Tienson

Book Overview

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...

• 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"