Papers from a conference of the same name, Tucson, February 1986, though many have since been updated. Researchers in philosophy, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience discuss connectionism as a plausible alternative to traditional symbolic or sentence-logic models of cognitive function. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Lynn A. Cooper is Professor of Psychology, University of Arizona.
Peter Culicover is Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University.
The late Robert M. Harnish was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Arizona.
Lynn Nadel is Regents' Professor in the Cognition and Neural Systems Program, Department of Psychology, at the University of Arizona.