Conceptual Spaces
The Geometry of Thought
$70.85
- Paperback
318 pages
- Release Date
30 January 2004
Summary
Within cognitive science, two approaches currently dominate the problem of modeling representations. The symbolic approach views cognition as computation involving symbolic manipulation. Connectionism, a special case of associationism, models associations using artificial neuron networks. Peter Gärdenfors offers his theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and connectionist approaches.
Symbolic representation is particularly weak at modeling concept learni…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262572194 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262572192 |
| Author: | Peter Gärdenfors |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 318 |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2004 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 14mm |
| Series: | A Bradford Book |
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“This is a fearless book that casts a wide net around key issues in cognitive science. It offers the kind of coherent, unified view that the field badly needs.” - Steven Sloman, Associate Professor, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University”
About The Author
Peter Gärdenfors
Peter Gärdenfors is Professor of Cognitive Science at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought (MIT Press) and other books.
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