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Computation vs. Information Processing [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 5/7/2008 7:16 AM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Logic as contingent [Read Article]
Posted by Eric Thomson at 4/8/2008 12:36 AM | View Comments (26) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Minds and Computers Book [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 1/16/2008 7:34 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Computation from a Mechanistic Perspective [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 1/12/2008 8:14 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (2)
Two-State, Three-Symbol Turing Machine is Universal [Read Article]
Posted by Corey Maley at 10/24/2007 11:47 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
What Exactly Is a Computer? [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 10/3/2007 7:52 PM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Richard Stallman and Free Software [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 9/9/2007 3:01 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Multiple realization of quantum computation? [Read Article]
Posted by marcin milkowski at 8/10/2007 12:34 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Computing Mechanisms [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 8/10/2007 9:46 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Connectionist Computation [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 7/14/2007 1:49 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (1)
Peter Smith on "Church's Thesis After 70 Years" [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 7/10/2007 10:18 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
'Pancomputationalism': Origins of a Neologism [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 6/26/2007 10:03 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Mueller on Digital States [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 6/26/2007 9:55 AM | View Comments (10) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Who was first with the computer metaphor? [Read Article]
Posted by marcin milkowski at 6/6/2007 7:20 AM | View Comments (14) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Wolfram Offers Prize for Proof of Universality of (2,3) Turing Machine [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 5/16/2007 10:16 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Are Quantum Computers About to Hit the Market? [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 2/15/2007 2:39 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Do Universal Turing Machines Execute Programs? [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 2/11/2007 9:56 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Church-Turing Fallacy [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 12/29/2006 5:54 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Synthese Issue on Neuroscience [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 10/29/2006 9:16 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Computation without Representation [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 9/22/2006 3:35 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Philosophy of Neuroscience [Read Article]
Posted by carl craver at 9/6/2006 10:12 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Real Numbers and Hypercomputation [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 9/3/2006 5:42 AM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Physical Church-Turing Thesis [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 9/3/2006 5:34 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Online Lectures by Davis, Kripke, and McCarthy [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 9/2/2006 8:24 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Competence, Computation, and Mechanistic Levels [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 8/23/2006 10:14 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Turing, von Neumann, and the Computer [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 8/12/2006 3:29 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Computational Explanation in Neuroscience [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 8/3/2006 1:37 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Godel's Theorems [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 8/1/2006 8:48 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
News [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 7/25/2006 4:13 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Computation, Representation, and Teleology [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 7/15/2006 10:43 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
New Directions in DNA Computing [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 7/15/2006 8:55 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Workshop on Computation [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 6/20/2006 5:49 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Randomness and Computation [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 6/12/2006 6:54 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Dinner with John McCarthy [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 6/12/2006 6:48 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Origins and Nature of Computation [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 6/12/2006 6:38 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Myths About Turing [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 3/14/2006 5:05 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Dining Philosophers [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 2/15/2006 3:42 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Did I Commit the Church-Turing Fallacy? [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 1/5/2006 8:36 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Classical Computation and Hypercomputation at the 2006 Eastern APA [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 1/2/2006 11:54 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Why care about the Church-Turing thesis? [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 12/25/2005 1:08 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Physical Church-Turing Thesis: Modest of Bold? [Read Article]
Posted by gualtiero piccinini at 12/25/2005 12:58 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
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