Coelho Mollo, Dimitri (2019) Against Computational Perspectivalism. [Preprint]

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Computational perspectivalism has been recently proposed as an alternative to mainstream accounts of physical computation, and especially to the teleologically-based mechanistic view. It takes physical computation to be partly dependent on explanatory perspectives, and eschews appeal to teleology in helping individuate computational systems. I assess several varieties of computational perspectivalism, showing that they either collapse into existing non-perspectival views; or end up with unsatisfactory or implausible accounts of physical computation. Computational perspectivalism fails therefore to be a compelling alternative to perspective-independent theories of computation in physical systems. I conclude that a teleologically-based, non-perspectival mechanistic account of physical computation is to be preferred.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Coelho Mollo, Dimitri dimitricmollo@gmail.com 0000-0002-0464-3535
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Computation Specific Sciences > Computer Science General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Operationalism/Instrumentalism
Depositing User:	Dimitri Coelho Mollo
Date Deposited:	16 Aug 2019 12:00
Last Modified:	16 Aug 2019 12:00
Item ID:	16336
Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axz036
DOI or Unique Handle:	10.1093/bjps/axz036
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Computation Specific Sciences > Computer Science General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Operationalism/Instrumentalism
Date:	August 2019
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16336

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