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Connectionism Rules, OK?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Kim Sterelny
Affiliation:
Victoria University of Wellington

Extract

Those familiar with Paul Churchland's earlier work will expect A Neuro-computational Perspective to be lively, provocative and interesting. They will not be disappointed. Churchland is best known for his sceptical view of belief-desire psychology. He suspects this theory is hopelessly false. This welcome collection of his essays includes this work but also his papers on the subjective aspects of the mind and his more recent adventures in philosophy of science. Three themes unify the collection: an anti-sententialist view of cognition, an emphasis on the plasticity of the human mind and a strong endorsement of connectionist models of human cognitive processes.

Type
Critical Notices/Études critiques
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1993

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