Given the fundamental role that concepts play in theories of cognition, philosophers and cognitive scientists have a common interest in concepts. Nonetheless, there is a great deal …
P Smolensky - Artificial Intelligence Review, 1987 - Springer
Connectionist AI systems are large networks of extremely simple numerical processors, massively interconnected and running in parallel. There has been great progress in the …
JA Fodor, ZW Pylyshyn - Cognition, 1988 - Elsevier
This paper explores differences between Connectionist proposals for cognitive architecture and the sorts of models that have traditionally been assumed in cognitive science. We claim …
The performance of symbolic inference tasks has long been a challenge to connectionists. In this paper, we present an extended survey of this area. Existing connectionist inference …
Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions. Cognitive …
Conceptual engineering means to provide a method to assess and improve our concepts working as cognitive devices. But conceptual engineering still lacks an account of what …