Pavia, September 14 - 17, 1998

Index Chairmen Program committee Scientific secretary Aims of the workshop Topics Program Workshop site Workshop modalities		SYMBOLISM AND CONNECTIONISM PARADIGMS Antonio Chella Robotics Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering University of Palermo Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo - Italy e-mail: chella@unipa.it Lorenzo Magnani, panel co-ordinator Computational Philosophy Laboratory Department of Philosophy - University of Pavia - I-27100 Pavia - Italy e-mail: lorenzo@philos.unipv.it HOT POINTS What cognitive phenomena are most difficult for connectionists to explain? What cognitive phenomena are most naturally explained in connectionist terms? Is symbolic deduction a central kind of human thinking? How do people make deductions? Is nondeductive reasoning done in accord with the laws of probability? What areas of knowledge do you have that are easily described in terms of symbolic rules? Concepts reduced to rules, concepts reduced to networks. Symbolic and connectionist mechanisms of analogy. Planning, decision, explanation, learning, language, in front of the symbolic/connectionist dichotomy.
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