Connectionism and artificial intelligence: history and philosophical interpretation
Kenneth Aizawa · Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence · 1992
Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus have tried to place connectionism and artificial intelligence in a broader historical and intellectual context. This history associates connectionism with neuroscience, conceptual holism, and non-rationalism, and artificial intelligence with conceptual atomism, rationalism, and formal logic. The present paper argues that the Dreyfus account of connectionism and artificial intelligence is both historically and philosophically misleading.