Tim van Gelder Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Tim van Gelder is professor of
philosophy at the
University of Melbourne. Van Gelder is one of the foremost proponents of
dynamicism or
dynamic cognition in
cognitive science. This is a theory of cognition that proposes that
dynamical systems theory provides a better model (or metaphor) for human cognition than the 'computational' model. So for example, he tries to show that the
Watt governor is a better metaphorical description of the way humans think than, say, a
Turing style computer. Dynamicism is closely associated with
connectionism. Both approaches are suspicious of
representationalism, with dynamicism being even more suspicious than connectionism in this respect. Some dynamicists argue that representations are simply not necessary to model cognition.
Further reading
van Gelder, T. J. (1999) 'Dynamic approaches to cognition'. In R. Wilson & F. Keil ed., The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 244-6.
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