?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Real+Algorithms%3A+A+Defense+of+Cognitivism&rft.creator=Bolender%2C+John&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=John+Searle+dismisses+the+attempt+to+understand+thought+as+a+form+of+computation%2C+on+the+grounds+that+it+is+not+scientific.++Science+is+concerned+with+intrinsic+properties%2C+i.e.+those+features+which+are+not+observer+relative%2C+e.g.+science+is+concerned+with+mass+but+not+with+beauty.++Computation%2C+according+to+Searle%2C+presupposes+the+property+of+following+an+algorithm%2C+but+algorithmicity+is+normative%2C+by+reason+of+appealing+to+function%2C+and+hence+not+intrinsic.++I+argue+that+Searle's+critique+presupposes+the+folk+notion+of+function%2C+which+is+indeed+normative.++But+this+folk+notion+can+be+replaced+by+a+purely+descriptive+analogue%2C+thereby+showing+that+algorithmicity+can+be+construed+as+intrinsic+after+all.&rft.publisher=Aristotelian+University+of+Thessaloniki&rft.contributor=Andriopoulos%2C+D.+Z.&rft.contributor=Avgelis%2C+N.&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4022%2F1%2FBolender1998.pdf&rft.identifier=++Bolender%2C+John++(1998)+Real+Algorithms%3A+A+Defense+of+Cognitivism.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4022%2F