?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Resilience+of+Computationalism&rft.creator=Piccinini%2C+Dr.+Gualtiero&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=Computationalism%E2%80%94the+view+that+cognition+is+computation%E2%80%94has+always+been+controversial.++It+faces+two+types+of+objection.++According+to+insufficiency+objections%2C+computation+is+insufficient+for+some+cognitive+phenomenon+X.++According+to+objections+from+neural+realization%2C+cognitive+processes+are+realized+by+neural+processes%2C+but+neural+processes+have+feature+Y+and+having+Y+is+incompatible+with+being+(or+realizing)+computations.++In+this+paper%2C+I+explain+why+computationalism+has+survived+these+objections.++Insufficiency+objections+are+at+best+partial%3A++for+all+they+establish%2C+computation+may+be+sufficient+for+cognitive+phenomena+other+than+X%2C+may+be+part+of+the+explanation+for+X%2C+or+both.++Objections+from+neural+realization+are+based+either+on+a+false+contrast+between+feature+Y+and+computation+or+on+an+account+of+computation+that+is+too+vague+to+yield+the+desired+conclusion.++To+adjudicate+the+dispute+between+computationalism+and+its+foes%2C+I+will+conclude+that+we+need+a+better+account+of+computation.&rft.date=2010-03-16&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6834%2F1%2FThe_Resilience_of_Computationalism.pdf&rft.identifier=++Piccinini%2C+Dr.+Gualtiero++(2010)+The+Resilience+of+Computationalism.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6834%2F