Nadine Fresco
Biographic Data
| ID | 508668 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadine Fresco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadine |
| FAMILY NAME | Fresco |
| SIGNATURE | FRESCO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7182-9727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mapping content: Why cognitive maps are non-conceptual mental states
Cognitive maps play a crucial role in mammalian navigation. They provide the organism with information about its own location and the locations of landmarks within known environments. Cognitive maps have yet to receive ample attention in philosophy. In this article, we argue that cognitive maps should not be understood along the lines of conceptual mental states, such as beliefs and desires. They are more plausibly understood to be non-conceptual…
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation
One type of computational indeterminacy arises from partitioning a system’s physical state space into state types that correspond to the abstract state types underlying the computation concerned. The mechanistic individuative strategy posits that computation can be uniquely identified through either narrow physical properties exclusively or wide, proximal properties. The semantic strategy posits that computation should be uniquely identified thro…
Some Proper Functions are Distal
Why Perceptual Experiences cannot be Probabilistic
Perceptual Confidence is the thesis that perceptual experiences can be probabilistic. This thesis has been defended and criticised based on a variety of phenomenological, epistemological, and explanatory arguments. One gap in these arguments is that they neglect the question of whether perceptual experiences satisfy the formal conditions that define the notion of probability to which Perceptual Confidence is committed. Here, we focus on this unde…
How can caching explain automaticity
Information in Explaining Cognition: How to Evaluate It
The claims that “The brain processes information” or “Cognition is information processing” are accepted as truisms in cognitive science. However, it is unclear how to evaluate such claims absent a specification of “information” as it is used by neurocognitive theories. The aim of this article is, thus, to identify the key features of information that information-based neurocognitive theories posit. A systematic identification of these features ca…
Long-arm functional individuation of computation
A single physical process may often be described equally well as computing several different mathematical functions—none of which is explanatorily privileged. How, then, should the computational identity of a physical system be determined? Some computational mechanists hold that computation is individuated only by either narrow physical or functional properties. Even if some individuative role is attributed to environmental factors, it is rather …
The indeterminacy of computation
Do the dynamics of a physical system determine what function the system computes? Except in special cases, the answer is no: it is often indeterminate what function a given physical system computes. Accordingly, care should be taken when the question ‘What does a particular neuronal system do?’ is answered by hypothesising that the system computes a particular function. The phenomenon of the indeterminacy of computation has important implications…
Mechanistic Computational Individuation without Biting the Bullet
Is the mathematical function being computed by a given physical system determined by the system’s dynamics? This question is at the heart of the indeterminacy of computation phenomenon (Fresco et al. [unpublished]). A paradigmatic example is a conventional electrical AND-gate that is often said to compute conjunction, but it can just as well be used to compute disjunction. Despite the pervasiveness of this phenomenon in physical computational sys…
Colette Guillaumin: 1934-2017
Ethics of the software vulnerabilities and exploits market
In this article we establish three claims: (1) When the target software is proprietary, in the absence of other overriding ethical considerations, the identification of a vulnerability and the development, sale, and purchase of non-zero-day exploits are ethically justified; (2) when the target software is Free/Libre/Open Source, the buying and selling of vulnerabilities can be ethically justified only in a very narrow situation, while the sale an…
Information and Veridicality: Information Processing and the Bar-Hillel/Carnap Paradox
Floridi’s Theory of Strongly Semantic Information posits the Veridicality Thesis (i.e., information is true). One motivation is that it can serve as a foundation for information-based epistemology being an alternative to the tripartite theory of knowledge. However, the Veridicality thesis is false, if ‘information’ is to play an explanatory role in human cognition. Another motivation is avoiding the so-called Bar-Hillel/Carnap paradox (i.e., any …
On malfunctioning software
The instructional information processing account of digital computation
Instructional Information Processing: Replies Considered
Information Processing as an Account of Concrete Digital Computation
Miscomputation
François Jacob: 1920-2013
Fabrication d'un antisemite
Présentation
Présentation
Parcours du Ressentiment: Pseudo-Histoire et Theorie sur Mesure Dans Le "Revisionnisme" Francais
Le fait est la, qu'on le refuse, qu'on le proclame ou qu'on en prenne acte: le genocide perpetre par les nazis contre les juifs pendant la deuxieme guerre mondiale pese d'un poids tout 'a fait particulier sur le monde occidental contemporain. Le fait est la': depuis qu'il a eu lieu, cet evenement a faconne ou transformed de maniere notable l'identite d'un tries grand nombre d'individus, mais aussi celle de groupes sociaux de natures et de dimensi…
Parcours du ressentiment
Par hasard dans une petite ville allemande
L’homme dans tous ses états
On malfunctioning software
The indeterminacy of computation
Do the dynamics of a physical system determine what function the system computes? Except in special cases, the answer is no: it is often indeterminate what function a given physical system computes. Accordingly, care should be taken when the question ‘What does a particular neuronal system do?’ is answered by hypothesising that the system computes a particular function. The phenomenon of the indeterminacy of computation has important implications…
Mechanistic Computational Individuation without Biting the Bullet
Is the mathematical function being computed by a given physical system determined by the system’s dynamics? This question is at the heart of the indeterminacy of computation phenomenon (Fresco et al. [unpublished]). A paradigmatic example is a conventional electrical AND-gate that is often said to compute conjunction, but it can just as well be used to compute disjunction. Despite the pervasiveness of this phenomenon in physical computational sys…
Long-arm functional individuation of computation
A single physical process may often be described equally well as computing several different mathematical functions—none of which is explanatorily privileged. How, then, should the computational identity of a physical system be determined? Some computational mechanists hold that computation is individuated only by either narrow physical or functional properties. Even if some individuative role is attributed to environmental factors, it is rather …
Teleofunction in the Service of Computational Individuation
One type of computational indeterminacy arises from partitioning a system’s physical state space into state types that correspond to the abstract state types underlying the computation concerned. The mechanistic individuative strategy posits that computation can be uniquely identified through either narrow physical properties exclusively or wide, proximal properties. The semantic strategy posits that computation should be uniquely identified thro…
Ethics of the software vulnerabilities and exploits market
In this article we establish three claims: (1) When the target software is proprietary, in the absence of other overriding ethical considerations, the identification of a vulnerability and the development, sale, and purchase of non-zero-day exploits are ethically justified; (2) when the target software is Free/Libre/Open Source, the buying and selling of vulnerabilities can be ethically justified only in a very narrow situation, while the sale an…
Information and Veridicality: Information Processing and the Bar-Hillel/Carnap Paradox
Floridi’s Theory of Strongly Semantic Information posits the Veridicality Thesis (i.e., information is true). One motivation is that it can serve as a foundation for information-based epistemology being an alternative to the tripartite theory of knowledge. However, the Veridicality thesis is false, if ‘information’ is to play an explanatory role in human cognition. Another motivation is avoiding the so-called Bar-Hillel/Carnap paradox (i.e., any …
Parcours du Ressentiment: Pseudo-Histoire et Theorie sur Mesure Dans Le "Revisionnisme" Francais
Le fait est la, qu'on le refuse, qu'on le proclame ou qu'on en prenne acte: le genocide perpetre par les nazis contre les juifs pendant la deuxieme guerre mondiale pese d'un poids tout 'a fait particulier sur le monde occidental contemporain. Le fait est la': depuis qu'il a eu lieu, cet evenement a faconne ou transformed de maniere notable l'identite d'un tries grand nombre d'individus, mais aussi celle de groupes sociaux de natures et de dimensi…
Reactions to prenatal diagnosis: An analysis of 87 interviews
Prenatal diagnosis, which enables certain fetal anomalies to be detected in utero, is becoming increasingly common among the growing number of women who, through choice or circumstance, experience pregnancy late in their childbearing life. Based on interviews with 62 women and 25 of their male partners, psychological responses to amniocentesis are discussed with respect to the medicalization of pregnancy, differences in reactions of women and men…
Aux beaux temps de la craniologie
How history is being ‘revised’
Les enfantements artificiels
L’homme dans tous ses états
L’air du temps
Par hasard dans une petite ville allemande
Parcours du ressentiment
Parcours du Ressentiment: Pseudo-Histoire et Theorie sur Mesure Dans Le "Revisionnisme" Francais
Le fait est la, qu'on le refuse, qu'on le proclame ou qu'on en prenne acte: le genocide perpetre par les nazis contre les juifs pendant la deuxieme guerre mondiale pese d'un poids tout 'a fait particulier sur le monde occidental contemporain. Le fait est la': depuis qu'il a eu lieu, cet evenement a faconne ou transformed de maniere notable l'identite d'un tries grand nombre d'individus, mais aussi celle de groupes sociaux de natures et de dimensi…
Présentation
Présentation
Fabrication d'un antisemite
Instructional Information Processing: Replies Considered
Information Processing as an Account of Concrete Digital Computation
Miscomputation
François Jacob: 1920-2013
The instructional information processing account of digital computation
On malfunctioning software
Ethics of the software vulnerabilities and exploits market
In this article we establish three claims: (1) When the target software is proprietary, in the absence of other overriding ethical considerations, the identification of a vulnerability and the development, sale, and purchase of non-zero-day exploits are ethically justified; (2) when the target software is Free/Libre/Open Source, the buying and selling of vulnerabilities can be ethically justified only in a very narrow situation, while the sale an…
Information and Veridicality: Information Processing and the Bar-Hillel/Carnap Paradox
Floridi’s Theory of Strongly Semantic Information posits the Veridicality Thesis (i.e., information is true). One motivation is that it can serve as a foundation for information-based epistemology being an alternative to the tripartite theory of knowledge. However, the Veridicality thesis is false, if ‘information’ is to play an explanatory role in human cognition. Another motivation is avoiding the so-called Bar-Hillel/Carnap paradox (i.e., any …
Colette Guillaumin: 1934-2017
Long-arm functional individuation of computation
A single physical process may often be described equally well as computing several different mathematical functions—none of which is explanatorily privileged. How, then, should the computational identity of a physical system be determined? Some computational mechanists hold that computation is individuated only by either narrow physical or functional properties. Even if some individuative role is attributed to environmental factors, it is rather …
The indeterminacy of computation
Do the dynamics of a physical system determine what function the system computes? Except in special cases, the answer is no: it is often indeterminate what function a given physical system computes. Accordingly, care should be taken when the question ‘What does a particular neuronal system do?’ is answered by hypothesising that the system computes a particular function. The phenomenon of the indeterminacy of computation has important implications…
Mechanistic Computational Individuation without Biting the Bullet
Is the mathematical function being computed by a given physical system determined by the system’s dynamics? This question is at the heart of the indeterminacy of computation phenomenon (Fresco et al. [unpublished]). A paradigmatic example is a conventional electrical AND-gate that is often said to compute conjunction, but it can just as well be used to compute disjunction. Despite the pervasiveness of this phenomenon in physical computational sys…
Information in Explaining Cognition: How to Evaluate It
The claims that “The brain processes information” or “Cognition is information processing” are accepted as truisms in cognitive science. However, it is unclear how to evaluate such claims absent a specification of “information” as it is used by neurocognitive theories. The aim of this article is, thus, to identify the key features of information that information-based neurocognitive theories posit. A systematic identification of these features ca…
Computer Science (18 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Cognitive science (8 works) · Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (8 works) · Philosophy of science (8 works) · Algorithm (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Computation (5 works)