B Jack Copeland
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1292647 |
|---|---|
| NOME | B Jack Copeland |
| PRENOMES | B Jack |
| SOBRENOME | Copeland |
| ASSINATURA | COPELAND B J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Canterbury |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1973-5018 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Ryle's war
Biographical articles on Gilbert Ryle—one of the 20th century’s greatest philosophers, remembered especially for his iconoclastic contributions to the philosophy of mind—tend to pass over his wartime years in silence, content with the meagre phrase ‘seconded to intelligence’. Yet those dark years were an important time in Ryle’s life and philosophical development. The investigation presented in this article extends from the time of his last philo…
Turing and Von Neumann
This article provides a detailed analysis of the transfer of a key cluster of ideas from mathematical logic to computing. We demonstrate the impact of certain of Turing’s logico-philosophical concepts from the mid-1930s on the emergence of the modern electronic computer—and so, in consequence, Turing’s impact on the direction of modern philosophy, via the computational turn. We explain why both Turing and von Neumann saw the problem of developing…
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…
Prior, translational semantics, and the Barcan formula
The revolution in semantics in the late 1960s and 1970s overturned an earlier competing paradigm, ‘translational’ semantics. I revive and defend Prior’s translational semantics for modals and tense-modals. I also show how to extend Prior’s propositional modal semantics to quantificational modal logic, and use the resulting semantics to formalize Prior’s own counterexample to the Barcan Formula
Criminality, Interpersonal Proximity and the Stop-Snitching Code
A number of studies have examined the relationship between the ‘code of the street’ and the concept of snitching (that is, informing the police). With some notable exceptions, these studies have generally focused on the pervasiveness of a ‘stop-snitching code’ or ‘code of silence’ among street offenders. In this study we seek to broaden understanding of the stop-snitching code by exploring perceptions of active, former, and non-offenders living i…
Deviant encodings and Turing’s analysis of computability
Meredith, Prior, and the History of Possible Worlds Semantics
Wittgenstein's deflationary account of reference
The Broad Conception of Computation
A myth has arisen concerning Turing's article of 1936, namely that Turing set forth a fundamental principle concerning the limits of what can be computed by machine-a myth that has passed into cognitive science and the philosophy of minds to wide and pernicious effect. This supposed principle, sometimes incorrectly termed the Church-Turing thesis, is the claim that the class of functions that can be computed by machines is identical to the class …
On Alan Turing's anticipation of connectionism
It is not widely realised that Turing was probably the first person to consider building computing machines out of simple, neuron-like elements connected together into networks in a largely random manner. Turing called his networks ‘unorganised machines’. By the application of what he described as ‘appropriate interference, mimicking education’ an unorganised machine can be trained to perform any task that a Turing machine can carry out, provided…
What is computation
The curious case of the Chinese gym
What is computation
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…
On Alan Turing's anticipation of connectionism
It is not widely realised that Turing was probably the first person to consider building computing machines out of simple, neuron-like elements connected together into networks in a largely random manner. Turing called his networks ‘unorganised machines’. By the application of what he described as ‘appropriate interference, mimicking education’ an unorganised machine can be trained to perform any task that a Turing machine can carry out, provided…
Deviant encodings and Turing’s analysis of computability
The Broad Conception of Computation
A myth has arisen concerning Turing's article of 1936, namely that Turing set forth a fundamental principle concerning the limits of what can be computed by machine-a myth that has passed into cognitive science and the philosophy of minds to wide and pernicious effect. This supposed principle, sometimes incorrectly termed the Church-Turing thesis, is the claim that the class of functions that can be computed by machines is identical to the class …
The curious case of the Chinese gym
Meredith, Prior, and the History of Possible Worlds Semantics
The curious case of the Chinese gym
On Alan Turing's anticipation of connectionism
It is not widely realised that Turing was probably the first person to consider building computing machines out of simple, neuron-like elements connected together into networks in a largely random manner. Turing called his networks ‘unorganised machines’. By the application of what he described as ‘appropriate interference, mimicking education’ an unorganised machine can be trained to perform any task that a Turing machine can carry out, provided…
What is computation
The Broad Conception of Computation
A myth has arisen concerning Turing's article of 1936, namely that Turing set forth a fundamental principle concerning the limits of what can be computed by machine-a myth that has passed into cognitive science and the philosophy of minds to wide and pernicious effect. This supposed principle, sometimes incorrectly termed the Church-Turing thesis, is the claim that the class of functions that can be computed by machines is identical to the class …
Wittgenstein's deflationary account of reference
Meredith, Prior, and the History of Possible Worlds Semantics
Deviant encodings and Turing’s analysis of computability
Criminality, Interpersonal Proximity and the Stop-Snitching Code
A number of studies have examined the relationship between the ‘code of the street’ and the concept of snitching (that is, informing the police). With some notable exceptions, these studies have generally focused on the pervasiveness of a ‘stop-snitching code’ or ‘code of silence’ among street offenders. In this study we seek to broaden understanding of the stop-snitching code by exploring perceptions of active, former, and non-offenders living i…
Prior, translational semantics, and the Barcan formula
The revolution in semantics in the late 1960s and 1970s overturned an earlier competing paradigm, ‘translational’ semantics. I revive and defend Prior’s translational semantics for modals and tense-modals. I also show how to extend Prior’s propositional modal semantics to quantificational modal logic, and use the resulting semantics to formalize Prior’s own counterexample to the Barcan Formula
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…
Turing and Von Neumann
This article provides a detailed analysis of the transfer of a key cluster of ideas from mathematical logic to computing. We demonstrate the impact of certain of Turing’s logico-philosophical concepts from the mid-1930s on the emergence of the modern electronic computer—and so, in consequence, Turing’s impact on the direction of modern philosophy, via the computational turn. We explain why both Turing and von Neumann saw the problem of developing…
Ryle's war
Biographical articles on Gilbert Ryle—one of the 20th century’s greatest philosophers, remembered especially for his iconoclastic contributions to the philosophy of mind—tend to pass over his wartime years in silence, content with the meagre phrase ‘seconded to intelligence’. Yet those dark years were an important time in Ryle’s life and philosophical development. The investigation presented in this article extends from the time of his last philo…
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