Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology

The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume II
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-823875-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

This is the second of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing; it celebrates his intellectual legacy within the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. A distinguished international cast of contributors focus on the relationship beteen a scientific, computational image of the mind and a common-sense picture of the mind as an inner arena populated by concepts, beliefs, intentions, and qualia. Topics covered include the causal potency of folk-psychological states, the connectionist reconception of learning and concept formation, the understanding of the notion of computation itself, and the relation between philosophical and psychological theories of concepts.

Also available in paperback is the companion volume, Machines and Thought, edited by Peter Millican and Andy Clark, which focuses on Turing's main innovations in artificial intelligence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, Andy

Millican, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Philosophische Psychologie, Logotherapie, Existenzanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Paul M. Churchland: Learning and Conceptual Change: The View from the Neurons

- 2: Mario Compiani: Remarks on the Paradigms of Connectionism

- 3: Joop Schopman and Aziz Shawky: Remarks on the Impact of Connectionism on our Thinking about Concepts

- 4: Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit: Causation in the Philosophy of Mind

- 5: Jon Oberlander and Peter Dayan: Altered States and Virtual Beliefs

- 6: Christopher Peacocke: The Relation between Philosophical and Psychological Theories of Concepts

- 7: Michael Morris: How Simple is the Simple Account?

- 8: Beatrice de Gelder: Modularity and Logical Cognitivism

- 9: Murray Shanahan: Folk Learning and Naive Physics

- 10: Chris Thornton: Why Concept Learning is a Good Idea

- 11: Douglas R. Hofstadter: Analogy-Making, Fluid Concepts, and Brain Mechanisms

- 12: Ian Pratt: Encoding Psychological Knowledge

- 13: L. Jonathan Cohen: Does Belief Exist?

Über Autor(innen)

Andy Clark is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology Project at Washington University, St Louis Missouri. Peter Millican is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Computer Studies at the University of Leeds.