Connections
and Symbols

The book that carried the connectionism debate into general circulation. First MIT Press edition 1988, copyright Elsevier Science Publishers; this copy is the SECOND PRINTING, 1989. ISBN 0-262-66064-4. It is a reprint of Cognition: International Journal of Cognitive Science, Volume 28 (1988) — a whole special issue of a journal reissued as a book, which is why it sits oddly between the monographs and the readers here. Edited by STEVEN PINKER and JACQUES MEHLER, it collects the case against connectionist models of language and mind, including the Fodor and Pylyshyn critique.