Summary The Computational Theory of Mind says that the mind is a computing system. It
has a long history going back to the idea that thought is a kind of computation. Its modern …

Relative to digital computation, analogue computation has been neglected in the
philosophical literature. To the extent that attention has been paid to analogue computation …

In The Physical Signature of Computation, Neal Anderson and Gualtiero Piccinini articulate
and defend the robust mapping account--the most systematic, rigorous, and comprehensive …

The mechanistic account of computation offers one promising and influential theory of
computational implementation. The aim of this paper is to shore up its conceptual …

Cognitive representations are typically analyzed in terms of content, vehicle, and format.
Although current work on formats appeals to intuitions about external representations, such …

I examine the classical idea of 'algorithm'as a sequential, step-by-step, deterministic
procedure (ie, the idea of 'algorithm'that was already in use by the 1930s), with respect to …

Current orthodoxy takes representation to be essential to computation. However, a
philosophical account of computation that does not appeal to representation would be …

The relationship between brains and computers is often taken to be merely metaphorical.
However, genuine computational systems can be implemented in virtually any media; thus …

ABSTRACT A distinguishing feature of neural computation and information processing is
that it fits models that describe the most efficient strategies for performing different cognitive …

We show that the so-called Multiple-Computations Theorem in cognitive science and
philosophy of mind challenges Landauer's Principle in physics. Since the orthodox wisdom …