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Published in Pacific philosophical quarterly • Feb 28, 2008
Authors:
Gualtiero Piccinini

Abstract

Abstract: I offer an explication of the notion of computer, grounded in the practices of computability theorists and computer scientists. I begin by explaining what distinguishes computers from calculators. Then, I offer a systematic taxonomy of kinds of computer, including hard‐wired versus program...

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