The semantic view of computation is the claim that semantic properties play an essential role in the individuation of physical computing systems such as laptops and brains. The main …
The aim of this paper is to begin developing a version of Gualtiero Piccinini's mechanistic account of computation that does not need to appeal to any notion of proper (or teleological) …
M Villalobos, J Dewhurst - Adaptive Behavior, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Post-cognitive approaches to cognitive science, such as enactivism and autopoietic theory, are typically assumed to involve the rejection of computationalism. We will argue that this …
A single physical process may often be described equally well as computing several different mathematical functions—none of which is explanatorily privileged. How, then …
JI Fuentes - Philosophical Psychology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A distinguishing feature of neural computation and information processing is that it fits models that describe the most efficient strategies for performing different cognitive …
N Fresco - Levels of Reality in Science and Philosophy: Re …, 2022 - Springer
Computational explanations in the cognitive sciences span multiple levels of analysis. The indeterminacy of computation complicates the endeavour of answering the question 'What …
This paper will argue that there is no such thing as miscomputation, contrary to the received view in philosophy of computation and (possibly) computer science. There are just hardware …
L Kersten, J Dewhurst, G Deane - … of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2017 - escholarship.org
Recently, some authors have begun to raise questions about thepotential unity of 4E (enactive, embedded, embodied, extended) cognition as a distinct research programme …
J Dewhurst, A Isaac - 2020 - philsci-archive.pitt.edu
Mechanistic explanation involves the attribution of functions to both mechanisms and their component parts, and function attribution plays a central role in the individuation of …