Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology

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.

• 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.