Connectionism, Competence, and Explanation
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Microfunctionalism: Connectionism and the Scientific Explanation of Mental States*
Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology Program Department of Philosophy Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130 e-mail: [email protected] * What follows is an amended version of material that first appeared in A. Clark, Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed Processing (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989), Ch. 1, 2, and 6. Thanks to MIT Press for permission to ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0007-0882,1464-3537
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/41.2.195