CONNECTIONISM AND
NEUROPHILOSOPHY
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Reading on Connectionism
For a clear brief statement of the key property of connectionist representations
see:
Tim van Gelder, 'Distributed
vs Local Representation' (Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
For a general introduction to connectionism, see:
James Garson, 'Connectionism',
in the Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Slightly more technical introductions:
'Artificial Neural
Networks: an introduction' (with a good glossary of terms)
or
Istvan Berkeley, 'What
is Connectionism?'
Two good recent short surveys of theoretical issues:
Patricia Churchland and Rick Grush, 'Computation
and the Brain', from the MIT Encyclopedia
of the Cognitive Sciences
Andy Clark and Chris Eliasmith, 'Philosophical
Issues in Brain Theory and Connectionism'
On connectionism and consciousness:
Gerard O'Brien and Jon Opie, draft of A connectionist
theory of phenomenal experience,
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
22 (1999) pp.127-148.
[Be careful before downloading or printing it: this is a long paper and a
big file. If you look at the print version, you can scan through various
short commentaries on this target article (eg by Dennett), and then look
at O'Brien and Opie's reply.
For more of O'Brien and Opie's picture of consciousness, and how it all fits
together, see their 'The Disunity
of Consciousness',
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
76 (1998) pp.378-395.
Connectionism, mental representation, and economics:
Barry Smith, ‘Hayek
and Connectionism’ (1997)
NEUROPHILOSOPHY
'No More Folk Tales': my review of the Churchlands' collection of essays
On the Contrary:
http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/Churchlands.htm
A
Review Essay: Recent Literature on Cognitive Science . (Critical Essay
focussing on Paul Churchland's work)
PAUL C. L. TANG. The Social Science Journal,
Oct 1999 v36 i4 p675
'THE NEURONAL PLATONIST',
Michael Gazzaniga in conversation with Shaun Gallagher,
from Journal
of Consciousness Studies, 5, No. 5–6, 1998, pp. 706–17
[discussing
both brain plasticity and self-creation]
NEUROSCIENCE HISTORY
Historical Museum
of Neurosurgery
Cortex
History from PBS
Milestones in Neuroscience
Research (references, dates, timeline)
NEUROSCIENCE
Brainmuseum: comparative mammalian brain
collection
Brain and Mind: electronic
neuroscience magazine
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Last updated 27 July 2000.