Physical Computation

A Mechanistic Account

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

AvGualtiero Piccinini,St. Louis) Piccinini, Gualtiero (University of Missouri

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Gualtiero Piccinini articulates and defends a mechanistic account of concrete, or physical, computation. A physical system is a computing system just in case it is a mechanism one of whose functions is to manipulate vehicles based solely on differences between different portions of the vehicles according to a rule defined over the vehicles. The Nature of Computation discusses previous accounts of computation and argues that the mechanistic account is better. Many kinds of computation are explicated, such as digital vs. analog, serial vs. parallel, neural network computation, program-controlled computation, and more. Piccinini argues that computation does not entail representation or information processing although information processing entails computation. Pancomputationalism, according to which every physical system is computational, is rejected. A modest version of the physical Church-Turing thesis, according to which any function that is physically computable is computable by Turing machines, is defended.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-07-12
Mått156 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt464 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198801160

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Gualtiero Piccinini is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Shortly after his appointment to the position in 2005, he founded Brains, which later became a group blog in the philosophy of mind and related sciences. He received early tenure and promotion in 2010 and early promotion to full professor in 2014. Between 2001 and 2014 he was department chair. In 2014, he received the Herbert A. Simon Award from the International Association for Computing and Philosophy for his research in the philosophy of computation.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1: Towards an Account of Physical Computation2: Mapping Accounts3: Semantic Accounts4: Pancomputationalism5: From Functional Analysis to Mechanistic Explanation6: The Ontology of Functional Mechanisms7: The Mechanistic Account8: Primitive Components of Computing Mechanisms9: Complex Components of Computing Mechanisms10: Digital Calculators11: Digital Computers12: Analog Computers13: Parallel Computers and Neural Networks14: Information Processing15: The Bold Physical Church-Turing Thesis16: The Modest Physical Church-Turing ThesisEpilogue: The Nature of ComputationAppendix: ComputabilityBibliographyIndex

the mechanistic account of physical computation is the best that we currently have . . . Physical Computation is eminently readable and well presented, with a clear structure and helpful introduction . . . It provides a thorough . . . introduction to the philosophical issues associated with computation in the physical sense and would serve as a good basis for a postgraduate or upper-level undergraduate course on the subject. Piccinini delivers a comprehensive summary of previous work on physical computation, alongside the definitive presentation of his mechanistic account, and I have no doubt that this book will become a valuable resource for future work on the topic.

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