COMPUTERS.
I offer an explication of the notion of computer, grounded in the practices of computability theorists and computer scientists. I begin by explaining what distinguishes computers from calculators. Then, I offer a systematic taxonomy of kinds of computer, including hard-wired versus programmable, gen...
| Publicado en: | Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 89; no. 1; pp. 32 - 74 |
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