Associative Engines: Connectionism, Concepts, and Representational Change (A Bradford Book)

by Andy Clark

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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.

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...

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  • ISBN10 0262513773
  • ISBN13 9780262513777
  • Publish Date 1 January 2003 (first published 21 September 1993)
  • Publish Status Inactive
  • Out of Print 22 January 2025
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher MIT Press Ltd
  • Imprint Bradford Books