Gualtiero Piccinini (St. Louis University of Missouri)

Gebundenes Buch

Physical Computation

A Mechanistic Account

Beschreibung

Computation permeates our world, but a satisfactory philosophical theory of what it is has been lacking. Gualtiero Piccinini presents a mechanistic account of what makes a physical system a computing system. He argues that computation does not entail representation or information-processing, although information-processing entails computation.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780199658855
• ISBN-10: 0199658854
• Artikelnr.: 47865154