A priori entailment and conceptual analysis: Making room for type-C physicalism 1 |
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Authors: | Gualtiero Piccinini |
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Institution: | University of Missouri , St Louis |
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Abstract: | According to pancomputationalism, everything is a computing system. In this paper, I distinguish between different varieties of pancomputationalism. I find that although some varieties are more plausible than others, only the strongest variety is relevant to the philosophy of mind, but only the most trivial varieties are true. As a side effect of this exercise, I offer a clarified distinction between computational modelling and computational explanation. |
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