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Explore a series of articles that examine and elaborate on many Philosophical inquiries through books. Daniel Burnston of The Brain breaks down abstract topics and offers insights and reflections into a number of Philosophy books. Founded in 2005, The Brains blog is a leading forum for research in the philosophy and science of mind.
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2M ago
The Physical Signature of Computation is the most “robust” mapping view that’s ever hit the market. It is impressive in its detail and the careful attention paid to its characterization of both the physical system and the formal computational description—a true service to the philosophical literature. The book promises a ..read more
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2M ago
Anderson and Piccinini (2024) offer a foundational approach to understanding physical computation. The book’s primary aim is to defend the notion of physical computation against trivialization. Critics argue that ascribing computation lacks a factual basis, which, if true, would render computational explanations ineffective by stripping them of explanatory power. Piccinini ..read more
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2M ago
The Physical Signature of Computation is an impressive book. Anderson and Piccinini have given us one of the most thoroughly articulated account of physical computation to date. At the center of their discussion is pancomputationalism, and in particular an especially strong version—known as unlimited pancomputationalism—which holds that every physical system ..read more
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2M ago
This week the Brains Blog is hosting a symposium on Neal Anderson and Gualtiero Piccinini’s new book The Physical Signature of Computation: A Robust Mapping Account (Oxford University Press; eBook available here). Today’s post from Anderson and Piccinini provides introductory remarks and an overview of the content of the book ..read more
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5M ago
This post applies the reason-responsive consequentialist view of rational inquiry to shed light on bounded rationality, the Standard Picture, and the epistemology of inquiry ..read more
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5M ago
This post gives three arguments for the reason-responsive consequentialist view of rational inquiry ..read more
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5M ago
This post introduces bounded rationality by contrasting it with a received Standard Picture of rationality ..read more
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5M ago
This post begins a five-part series introducing David Thorstad's book, Inquiry under bounds ..read more
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7M ago
Commentary from Tina Röck on today’s post from Mazviita Chirimuuta on The Brain Abstracted (MIT Press). One way to read this book is to consider it a discussion of the limitations in our ability to understand hyper-complex, dynamic objects like the brain. In her more metaphysical chapters (2 and 8 ..read more
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7M ago
Post 5 of 5 from Mazviita Chirimuuta on The Brain Abstracted (Open Access: MIT Press). The last of this series of posts summarises the conclusions regarding philosophy of science more generally that emerge from this study of simplification in neuroscience. The question of realism may have already occurred to you ..read more