Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology

Andy Clark is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology program at Washington State University, St Louis, Missouri. He is the author of Microcognition (MIT Press 1989) and Associative Engines (MIT Press 1993).Peter Millican is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Computer Studies at the University of Leeds.

• Introduction ; 1. Learning and Conceptual Change: The View from the Neurons ; 2. Remarks on the Paradigms of Connectionism ; 3. Remarks on the Impact of Connectionism on our Thinking about Concepts ; 4. Causation in the Philosophy of Mind ; 5. Altered States and Virtual Beliefs ; 6. The Relation between Philosophical and Psychological Theories of Concepts ; 7. How Simple is the Simple Account? ; 8. Modularity and Logical Cognitivism ; 9. Folk Learning and Naive Physics ; 10. Why Concept Learning is a Good Idea ; 11. Analogy-Making, Fluid Concepts, and Brain Mechanisms ; 12. Encoding Psychological Knowledge ; 13. Does Belief Exist?

A fascinating series of essays on computation by contributors in various fields.