Computationalism – B.A. Gonczarek

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A short history of thinking as symbol processing

Posted: on February, 2019June, 2021by Bartosz Gonczarek

What is this tradition of explaining thinking by representing the brain as a computer, an object grounded in the mathematical logic?

From Computer Metaphor to Computational Modeling: The Evolution of Computationalism

Posted: on July, 2018May, 2020by admin

Computational modeling is deservedly successful in cognitive (neuro)science. Its successes are related to deep conceptual connections between cognition and computation. Computationalism is not only here to stay despite outdated formulations that rely on mechanistic account of physical computation.

Classical computationalism and the many problems of cognitive relevance

Posted: on September, 2010May, 2020by admin

A defence of the classical computational account of reasoning against a range of highly influential objections, some of them being not really objections but rather hard research issues.