TY - CHAP
T1 - Setting the stage
T2 - Computation in cognitive science
AU - Fresco, Nir
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - What is computation? This question may seem, at a first glimpse, trivial and uninteresting. There has already been a long discussion about this subject back in the mid-twentieth century. The discussion produced many extensionally equivalent models of computation, such as Turing machines, lambda calculus, cellular automata, Post machines and recursive functions.
AB - What is computation? This question may seem, at a first glimpse, trivial and uninteresting. There has already been a long discussion about this subject back in the mid-twentieth century. The discussion produced many extensionally equivalent models of computation, such as Turing machines, lambda calculus, cellular automata, Post machines and recursive functions.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019705050&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-41375-9_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-41375-9_1
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85019705050
T3 - Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
SP - 1
EP - 31
BT - Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -