A defence of informational structural realism.
Abstract This is the revised version of an invited keynote lecture delivered at the 1st Australian Computing and Philosophy Conference (CAP@AU; the Australian National University in Canberra, 31 October–2 November, 2003). The paper is divided into two parts. The first part defends an informational...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 161; no. 2; pp. 219 - 254 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2008
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