… This chapter explores the epistemic roles played by connectionist models of cognition, …
connectionist models explain. The question of what sorts of explanations connectionist models …

… In (highly distributed Smolensky-style) connectionist models, there are often no neat
recurrent physical states which cod£ for the real world entities which the system is dealing with. …

… SUMMARY: Connectionist models of cognition are said to provide better … important
theories of explanation, we discuss several currently popular connectionist approaches to the …

… connectionist model because there is only one body of nodes, and it is their joint action which
makes up the explanation… .tmtion which is envisioned as the explanation. If this "picture" is …

… How are relations of the kind described above translated to a connectionist model and how
does it work? First of all, there is a primitive high-level description language which allows …

… Abstracts Connectionist models provide a promising alternative to the … of connectionist
models and their relation to symbol processing remains controversial. Connectionist models can …

… Connectionist models have come to play an important role in … Connectionism is a body oftools
and ideas that can be used … Thus, for example, the explanation for the patterns of category…

… of connectionism as an alternative paradigm for AI, it must be demonstrated that connectionist
models … However, there is insufficient space in this paper to explain this model at depth, for …

… connectionist model, the autoassociator, will be examined. … The designers of the models
and their interpreters discussed … of connectionist modelling to over-interpret models that serve …

… to abandon compelling constraints on explanation. We can always respond to a … explanation.
But we should not repeat the mistake of the deductive-nomological model of explanation …