What is computation?

DOI10.1007/BF00413693MaRDI QIDQ1293030zbMATHOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors B. Jack Copeland

Publication date 15 August 2000

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00413693

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmcomputationcomputational functionalismmachine architecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Turing machines and related notions (03D10)

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