Coelho Mollo, Dimitri (2019) Against Computational Perspectivalism. [Preprint]
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Abstract
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 | ||||||
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Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Computation Specific Sciences > Computer Science General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Operationalism/Instrumentalism |
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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 |
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Date: | August 2019 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16336 |
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