Christopher D. Green (1998) Statistical Analyses do not Solve Connectionism's Problem
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Psycoloquy 9(15): Statistical Analyses do not Solve Connectionism's Problem
STATISTICAL ANALYSES DO NOT SOLVE CONNECTIONISM'S PROBLEM
Reply to Medler & Dawson on Connectionist-Explanation
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
Canada
http://www.yorku.ca/faculty/academic/christo
christo@yorku.ca
Abstract
Medler & Dawson (1998) claim (1) that I am just a closet
implementationalist, (2) that I have ignored a range of statistical
analyses that answer my challenge to connectionism, and (3) that
only connectionist networks can produce explanatory models of
cognition. I reply that I am not an implementationalist, that the
statistical analyses to which they refer do not solve the problem I
have posed, and that the question of whether a theory is
explanatory is independent of the question of how it was generated.
Keywords
artificial intelligence, cognition, computer modelling,
connectionism, epistemology, explanation, methodology, neural nets,
philosophy of science, theory.
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