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168How do connectionist networks compute?Cognitive Processing 7 (1): 30-41. 2006.Although connectionism is advocated by its proponents as an alternative to the classical computational theory of mind, doubts persist about its _computational_ credentials. Our aim is to dispel these doubts by explaining how connectionist networks compute. We first develop a generic account of computation—no easy task, because computation, like almost every other foundational concept in cognitive science, has resisted canonical definition. We opt for a characterisation that does justice to the e…Read more
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49How does mind matter? Solving the content causation problemIn Metzinger Thomas (ed.), Open MIND Philosophy and the Mind Sciences in the 21st Century. Volume 2,, Mit Press. pp. 1137-1150. 2016.Gerard O’Brien.
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45Chris Mortensen, Graham Nerlich, Garrett Cullity and Gerard O'Brien.
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27Gerard O’Brien and Jon Opie.
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24This issue brings together papers by Australasian philosophers on language, thought, and their relationship. Contributors were given complete freedom to treat these topics in any way they saw fit. The results reflect the diverse interests of Australasian philosophers, and, perhaps even more strikingly, the diversity of philosophical methods they employ to pursue these interests.
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21A schizophrenic defense of a vehicle theory of consciousnessIn R. Gennaro (ed.), Disturbed Consciousness: New Essays on Psychopathology and Theories of Consciousness, Mit Press. pp. 265-292. 2015.Gerard O’Brien and Jon Opie.
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17Hegel on Reason and History, A Contemporary InterpretationPhilosophical Review 86 (1): 107-109. 1975.
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7Rehabilitating resemblance reduxIn T. Metzinger (ed.), Open MIND Philosophy and the Mind Sciences in the 21st Century. Volume 2, . 2016.Gerard O’Brien.
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Sustainability: Business strategy trumps reputationBusiness Ethics: The Magazine of Corporate Responsibility. forthcoming.
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