Computation and information

Gualtiero Piccinini; Andrea Scarantino

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Computation and information

Gualtiero Piccinini, Andrea Scarantino

University of Missouri-St. Louis

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Computation and information are closely related. There are several notions of computation and several notions of information, so we need to be careful in sorting out their relations (Piccinini and Scarantino 2011 ).

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315757544.CH03
State	Published - Jun 23 2016

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Theory and Algorithms
Computer Sciences
Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

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