Oron Shagrir is the Schulman Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He graduated in mathematics and cognitive science from the Hebrew University and received his PhD in philosophy and cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on the nature of computation and the role of computational approaches in cognitive neuroscience. He is the editor, with Jack Copeland and Carl Posy, of Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond (MIT 2013), and the author of articles published in Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy of Science, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and other journals.
Chapter 1: Desiderata of a theory of computation Chapter 2: Turing's computability Chapter 3: Preamble to machine computation Chapter 4: Computation as step satisfaction Chapter 5: Computation as implementation Chapter 6: Computation as mechanism Chapter 7: The semantic view of computation Chapter 8: An argument for the semantic view Chapter 9: Computing as modeling
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