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Culture, Cognition, and Connectionism:

Culture, Cognition, and Connectionism:


Towards an Hermeneutic Anthropology of Mind — Ph.D. thesis

Chapter One: Theories of Culture, Concepts of Mind

Anthropology, cognition-grounded anthropology versus cognitive anthropology; conceptions of mind, models of mind; cognitive-grounded anthropology and AI; Metaphor; and, dissertation outline.

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Towards an Hermeneutic Anthropology of Mind — Ph.D. thesis

 

Chapter One: Theories of Culture, Concepts of Mind

Anthropology, cognition-grounded anthropology versus cognitive anthropology; conceptions of mind, models of mind; cognitive-grounded anthropology and AI; Metaphor; and, dissertation outline.

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Chapter Two: The Computational Metaphor  

Technological (computer) animism; computer metaphors for mind; metaphorical conflation; computers and the formalist tradition; and, model conflation.

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Chapter Three: Formalist Anthropology 

Formalism in anthropology; cognition-grounded anthropology; development of cognitive anthropology; the formalist model of mind; limitations; formalist cognitive anthropology lives!

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Chapter Four: Challenges to Formalism and the Hermeneutic Alternative

Complexity; representation; the hermeneutic alternative; Dilthy; Geertz; Vygotsky; Lakoff; and hermeneutic models of mind.

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Chapter Five: Connectionism as an Hermeneutic Model of Mind

Connections and neural networks; distributed representation; landscapes, learning and complementary representation; additional aspects of neural networks; constraint windows; extending the landscape metaphor (vTAO); and, model of mind.

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Chapter Six: Un-defining Mind and Culture  

Processing limitations; organization; learning; mind? and culture?

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Chapter Seven: Neo-Hermeneutic Anthropology, Directions for Additional Research          

Culture is memory, memory is culture; let the description fit the problem; and future research projects.

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