This broad-ranging volume includes a series of articles that were originally published as a special issue of Cognition produced to celebrate the 50th volume of the journal.This broad-ranging volume in
Connections and Symbols provides the first systematic analysis of the explosive newfield of Connectionism that is challenging the basic tenets of cognitive science.
In the early 1960s, the bold project of the emerging field of cognition was to putthe human mind under the scrutiny of rational inquiry, through the conjoined efforts of philosophy,linguistics, comput