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Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence :: Philosophy of Connectionism :: The Connectionist/Classical Debate

6.3a Connectionism and Compositionality [55]
6.3b Representation in Connectionism [41]
6.3c Connectionism and Eliminativism [20]
6.3d The Connectionist/Classical Debate [34]
6.3e Subsymbolic Computation [10]
6.3f Philosophy of Connectionism, Misc. [75]
6.3g Philosophy of Connectionism, Foundational Empirical Issues [22]

See also:

2.1a The Language of Thought
6.2a Symbols and Symbol Systems
6.5a Computationalism in Cognitive Science

Adams, Frederick R.; Aizawa, Kenneth & Fuller, Gary (1992). Rules in programming languages and networks. In J. Dinsmore (ed.), The Symbolic and Connectionist Paradigms: Closing the Gap. Lawrence Erlbaum. (Cited by 3 | Google | More links | Annotation)

Aizawa, Kenneth (1994). Representations without rules, connectionism, and the syntactic argument. Synthese 101 (3):465-92. (Cited by 10 | Google)

Aydede, Murat (1995). Connectionism and the language of thought. CSLI Technical Report. (Cited by 4 | Google)

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Bringsjord, Selmer (1991). Is the connectionist-logicist debate one of ai's wonderful red herrings? Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Artificial Intelligence 3:319-49. (Cited by 16 | Google | More links | Annotation)

Broadbent, D. (1985). A question of levels: Comment on McClelland and rumelhart. Journal of Experimental Psychology 114:189-92. (Cited by 29 | Google | Annotation)

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Christensen, Wayne D. & Tomassi, Luca (2006). Neuroscience in context: The new flagship of the cognitive sciences. Biological Theory 1 (1). (Google | More links)

Corbi, Josep E. (1993). Classical and connectionist models: Levels of description. Synthese 95 (2):141-68. (Google)

Davies, Martin (1991). Concepts, connectionism, and the language of thought. In W Ramsey, Stephen P. Stich & D. Rumelhart (eds.), Philosophy and Connectionist Theory. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (Cited by 40 | Google)

Dawson, Michael R. W.; Medler, D. A. & Berkeley, Istvan S. N. (1997). PDP networks can provide models that are not mere implementations of classical theories. Philosophical Psychology 10 (1):25-40. (Cited by 17 | Google)

Dennett, Daniel C. (1991). Mother nature versus the walking encyclopedia. In William Ramsey, Stephen P. Stich & D. Rumelhart (eds.), Philosophy and Connectionist Theory. Lawrence Erlbaum. (Cited by 23 | Google | More links | Annotation)

Dennett, Daniel C. (1986). The logical geography of computational approaches: A view from the east pole. In Myles Brand & Robert M. Harnish (eds.), The Representation of Knowledge and Belief. University of Arizona Press. (Cited by 21 | Google | Annotation)

DeVries, Willem A. (1993). Who sees with equal eye,... Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd? Philosophical Studies 71 (2):191-200. (Google)

Dinsmore, J. (ed.) (1992). The Symbolic and Connectionist Paradigms: Closing the Gap. Lawrence Erlbaum. (Cited by 18 | Google)

Dyer, Michael G. (1991). Connectionism versus symbolism in high-level cognition. In Terence E. Horgan & John L. Tienson (eds.), Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind. Kluwer. (Cited by 7 | Google)

Eliasmith, Chris (2000). Is the brain analog or digital? Cognitive Science Quarterly 1 (2):147-170. (Google | More links)

Eliasmith, Chris & Clark, Andy (2002). Philosophical issues in brain theory and connectionism. In M. Arbib (ed.), The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. MIT Press. (Google | More links)

Fodor, Jerry A. & Pylyshyn, Zenon W. (1988). Connectionism and cognitive architecture: A critical analysis. Cognition 28:3-71. (Cited by 1483 | Google | More links)

Garson, James W. (1994). Cognition without classical architecture. Synthese 100 (2):291-306. (Cited by 10 | Google)

Garson, James W. (1994). No representations without rules: The prospects for a compromise between paradigms in cognitive science. Mind and Language 9 (1):25-37. (Cited by 7 | Google)

Garson, James W. (1991). What connectionists cannot do: The threat to classical AI. In Terence E. Horgan & John L. Tienson (eds.), Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind. Kluwer. (Cited by 1 | Google | Annotation)

Guarini, Marcello (2001). A defence of connectionism against the "syntactic" argument. Synthese 128 (3):287-317. (Cited by 2 | Google | More links)

Horgan, Terence E. & Tienson, John L. (2006). Cognition needs syntax but not rules. In Robert J. Stainton (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing. (Cited by 1 | Google)

Horgan, Terence E. & Tienson, John L. (1994). Representations don't need rules: Reply to James Garson. Mind and Language 9 (1):1-24. (Cited by 6 | Google)

Horgan, Terence E. & Tienson, John L. (1989). Representation without rules. Philosophical Perspectives 17 (1):147-74. (Google | Annotation)

Horgan, Terence E. & Tienson, John L. (1987). Settling into a new paradigm. Southern Journal of Philosophy Supplement 26:97-113. (Google | Annotation)

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Lormand, Eric (manuscript). Connectionist languages of thought. (Cited by 1 | Google)

Markic, Olga (1999). Connectionism and the language of thought: The cross-context stability of representations. Acta Analytica 22 (22):43-57. (Cited by 1 | Google)

McClelland, J. L. & Rumelhart, D. E. (1985). Levels indeed! A response to Broadbent. Journal of Experimental Psychology 114:193-7. (Google | Annotation)

McLaughlin, Brian P. & Warfield, F. (1994). The allure of connectionism reexamined. Synthese 101 (3):365-400. (Cited by 11 | Google | Annotation)

Rey, Georges (1991). An explanatory budget for connectionism and eliminativism. In Terence E. Horgan & John L. Tienson (eds.), Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind. Kluwer. (Cited by 11 | Google | Annotation)

ter Hark, Michel (1995). Connectionism, behaviourism, and the language of thought. In Cognitive Patterns in Science and Common Sense. Amsterdam: Rodopi. (Google)

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6.3g	Philosophy of Connectionism, Foundational Empirical Issues [22]

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