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Situated Neural Representations: Solving the Problems of Content by Piccinini, Gualtiero

“…Situated approaches to cognition maintain that cognition is embodied, embedded, enactive, and affective (and extended, but that is not relevant here). Situated…”
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Computational modelling vs. Computational explanation: Is everything a Turing Machine, and does it matter to the philosophy of mind? by Piccinini, Gualtiero

“…According to pancomputationalism, everything is a computing system. In this paper, I distinguish between different varieties of pancomputationalism. I find…”
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INFORMATION WITHOUT TRUTH by SCARANTINO, ANDREA, PICCININI, GUALTIERO

“…According to the Veridicality Thesis, information requires truth. On this view, smoke carries information about there being a fire only if there is a fire, the…”
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The First Computational Theory of Mind and Brain: A Close Look at McCulloch and Pitts's "Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" by Piccinini, Gualtiero

“…Despite its significance in neuroscience and computation, McCulloch and Pitts's celebrated 1943 paper has received little historical and philosophical…”
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The cognitive neuroscience revolution by Boone, Worth, Piccinini, Gualtiero

“…We outline a framework of multilevel neurocognitive mechanisms that incorporates representation and computation. We argue that paradigmatic explanations in…”
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Get the Latest Upgrade: Functionalism 6.3.1 by Corey Maley, Gualtiero Piccinini

“…Functionalism is a popular solution to the mind–body problem. It has a number of versions. We outline some of the major releases of functionalism, listing some…”
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Integrating psychology and neuroscience: functional analyses as mechanism sketches by Piccinini, Gualtiero, Craver, Carl

“…We sketch a framework for building a unified science of cognition. This unification is achieved by showing how functional analyses of cognitive capacities can…”
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An Egalitarian Account of Composition and Realization by Piccinini, Gualtiero

“…Abstract I argue that wholes are neither identical to nor (completely) distinct from their parts. Instead, wholes are invariants under some transformations in…”
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Neural Computation and the Computational Theory of Cognition by Piccinini, Gualtiero, Bahar, Sonya

“…We begin by distinguishing computationalism from a number of other theses that are sometimes conflated with it. We also distinguish between several important…”
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Computation and Representation in Cognitive Neuroscience by Piccinini, Gualtiero

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Mechanistic Abstraction by Boone, Worth, Piccinini, Gualtiero

“…We provide an explicit taxonomy of legitimate kinds of abstraction within constitutive explanation. We argue that abstraction is an inherent aspect of adequate…”
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Computing Mechanisms by Piccinini, Gualtiero

“…This paper offers an account of what it is for a physical system to be a computing mechanism—a system that performs computations. A computing mechanism is a…”
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Information processing, computation, and cognition by Piccinini, Gualtiero, Scarantino, Andrea

“…Computation and information processing are among the most fundamental notions in cognitive science. They are also among the most imprecisely discussed. Many…”
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Neural Representations Observed by Thomson, Eric, Piccinini, Gualtiero

“…The historical debate on representation in cognitive science and neuroscience construes representations as theoretical posits and discusses the degree to which…”
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Computation without Representation by Piccinini, Gualtiero

“…The received view is that computational states are individuated at least in part by their semantic properties. I offer an alternative, according to which…”
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Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Intentionality by Morgan, Alex, Piccinini, Gualtiero

“…We situate the debate on intentionality within the rise of cognitive neuroscience and argue that cognitive neuroscience can explain intentionality. We discuss…”
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The Physical Church–Turing Thesis: Modest or Bold? by Piccinini, Gualtiero

“…This article defends a modest version of the Physical Church-Turing thesis (CT). Following an established recent trend, I distinguish between what I call…”
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Foundations of computational neuroscience by Piccinini, Gualtiero, Shagrir, Oron

“…Highlights • Neural systems process information by performing computations. • Neural computation and information processing operate at many levels of…”
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Quantum-like behavior without quantum physics III: Logic and memory by Selesnick, Stephen, Piccinini, Gualtiero

“…We employ some of the machinery developed in previous work to investigate the inferential and memory functions of quantum-like neural networks. We set up a…”
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Functions Must Be Performed at Appropriate Rates in Appropriate Situations by Garson, Justin, Piccinini, Gualtiero

“…We sketch a novel and improved version of Boorse's biostatistical theory of functions. Roughly, our theory maintains that (i) functions are non-negligible…”
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