Review of Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account by Gualtiero Piccinini - Gualtiero Piccinini, Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2015), 313 pp., $65.00 (cloth) [Book Review]

Philosophy of Science 84 (3):604-612 (2017)
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