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Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 426–431.
Published: 01 July 2018
... at computationally modeling a system does not necessarily imply it is best explained as performing computations (23, 69–71). If we are to assess whether a computational explanation is appropriate, we need a physical analogue to the mathematical notion of an “effective procedure” that motivated Church and Turing...
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Published: 01 April 2018
Figure 2. The relevant message r is computed by first restricting the irrelevant literal meaning p to the contextual presupposition q ; this restriction p ↾ q is then completed by the subject matter S.
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How Is Perception Tractable?
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 239–292.
Published: 01 April 2023
... are thereby computationally intractable, then the traditional view of a unified mind postperception is incompatible with the computational theory of mind, the view that mental processes are computational processes. 6 It would follow that either central cognition too must break down into parts...
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Exploring by Believing
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (3): 339–383.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... Then, the optimal policy is to always play the arm with the highest Gittins index. This is a computationally expensive procedure (relative to approximations such as Upper Confidence Bound [UCB; see Auer 2003] and ε -greedy Q-learning) that relies on forward induction (Mahajan and Teneketzis 2008). Crucially...
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The Perception-Cognition Border: A Case for Architectural Division
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 323–393.
Published: 01 July 2020
...). According to DRH, perceptual processes are constrained to compute over a bounded range of dimensions, while cognitive processes are not. This view allows that perception is cognitively penetrable, but places strict limits on the varieties of penetration that can occur. The article argues that DRH enjoys...
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Nelkin on the Lottery Paradox
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The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (3): 395–404.
Published: 01 July 2003
... that I have a computer program that chooses a background
color for my computer screen by randomly selecting a number between
one and one million each time I turn on my computer. Associated with
one of the numbers is a red screen. Associated with 999,999 numbers is a
blue screen...
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Conjoining Meanings: Semantics without Truth Values
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 171–175.
Published: 01 January 2021
... is a plea against meaning externalism. The main claim is that meanings are mental algorithms to access and compose concepts. But the algorithms have restricted computational capabilities imposing constraints on the meanings expressible in natural language. These constraints should be the main topic...
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Views into the Chinese Room: New Essays on Searle and Artificial Intelligence
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (2): 277–282.
Published: 01 April 2005
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mit Searle to a form of computationalism. Searle would, however, reiterate his
claim that no mere computational processes, which, he claims, are causally
inert, would ever suffice for language understanding (see 57); such processes
would have to be implemented in some way. There is probably...
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The Iconic-Symbolic Spectrum
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (4): 579–627.
Published: 01 October 2023
... selection. 82 And we can now see that there is no tension in the idea that a symbolic rule might be biologically, culturally, or computationally determined. The arbitrariness of symbolic representation does not imply contingency, only semantic simplicity. Parallel considerations sometimes extend...
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Probability and Conditionals: Belief Revision and Rational Decision
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 277–281.
Published: 01 April 2000
... focus on probability and the logic of conditionals, and
the relationship between them; they draw their inspiration from Adams’s
seminal work on the subject. As a computer scientist, I was struck by just
how much the topics discussed play a major role in much recent work in
computer science...
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The Oxford Handbook of Free Will
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (2): 279–283.
Published: 01 April 2004
... intuition pump
involving a pair of chess-playing computers, with pseudo-random processes
that give variety to their play. The authors invite us to agree that there is surely
an important sense in which the computer on a given occasion is considering
different possible moves that are open to it—even...
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Algorithm and Parameters: Solving the Generality Problem for Reliabilism
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (4): 463–509.
Published: 01 October 2019
... and hence the justificatory status of the belief. Instead, the relevant psychological process type in the maple tree case is some species of visual object recognition for natural items . If gist perception as of an outdoor scene factors into the computation, then that's part of the complete...
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“Ought” Implies “Can” but Does Not Imply “Must”: An Asymmetry between Becoming Infeasible and Becoming Overridden
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 487–514.
Published: 01 October 2018
... card, you must visit a website and enter (by 5 p.m.) either code 1, to get a dishwasher, or code 2, to get a computer. Although your father has asked you to get the dishwasher because he needs it, your son more urgently needs the computer, so you have promised your son that you will get the computer...
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Reasons as Defaults
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (2): 286–289.
Published: 01 April 2015
... metaphors, and we have no systematic account of how reasons combine to determine what agents ought to do. The primary aim of his book is to correct this. Horty seeks to both represent and explain the interaction of reasons with the resources of default logic, developed by computer scientists (being...
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Absent Qualia and the Mind-Body Problem
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (2): 139–168.
Published: 01 April 2006
... consequences could
have been produced in another way by ersatz pain. Consider, for exam-
ple, a computer that works by electricity. There could be a second com-
puter computationally identical to the fi rst that works hydraulically. The
former computer lacks fl uid—it is an absent fl uid device...
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Survival of the Virtuous: How We Became a Moral Animal
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The Philosophical Review (2025) 134 (1): 96–100.
Published: 01 January 2025
... (which uses computer simulations to study the costs and benefits of different cooperative strategies). For those unfamiliar with the literature on the biological origins of morality, these sections will be a useful overview. He points out some of the protomoral tendencies of our primate ancestors...
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Applying Mathematics by Otávio Bueno and Steven French
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 670–674.
Published: 01 October 2020
.... A physicist might unwittingly fasten upon one of these equational sets and attempt to apply it to real-world phenomena. It might further happen that she will obtain fairly successful predictions on a computer due to round-off error (which sometimes supplies an unwitting surrogate for friction). What do we...
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Rational Rules: Towards a Theory of Moral Learning
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The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (3): 399–403.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and characterizing it as a computational analysis in David Marr’s sense; and by outlining some basic features and illustrations of statistical learning theory, along with five key requirements of a successful statistical learning account (3–24). He then discusses the nature of various moral representations (e.g...
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When Transmission Fails
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 497–529.
Published: 01 October 2010
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The term ‘transmission’ is not unique to philosophical discourse: reli-
gious and cultural traditions are often transmitted from one generation
to the next; diseases from one person to another; and various kinds of
information from one computer to another. To understand the general
concept...
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Beyond Spacetime: The Foundations of Quantum Gravity
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 106–111.
Published: 01 January 2024
... variables and observables may differ from those in the initial definition of the same theory (and that enter the computation of the same collective quantities). Such approximate, coarse-grained description, alongside other forms of truncation, is thus not just a technical tool that physicists have to adopt...
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