creators_name: Harnad, Stevan
type: journalp
datestamp: 2001-06-18
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:40
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title: Against Computational Hermeneutics
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: computationalism, artificial intelligence, symbol manipulation, symbol grounding, subjective states, functionalism
abstract: Critique of Computationalism as merely projecting hermeneutics
                               (i.e., meaning originating from the mind of an external interpreter) onto
                               otherwise intrinsically meaningless symbols.
date: 1990
date_type: published
publication: Social Epistemology
volume: 4
pagerange: 167-172
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Harnad, Stevan  (1990) Against Computational Hermeneutics.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1576/1/harnad90.dietrich.crit.html