Volume 28, Issue 3, September 2018

In this issue (11 articles)

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   A Computational Conundrum: “What is a Computer?” A Historical Overview

   Istvan S. N. Berkeley Pages 375-383

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   What is a Computer? A Survey

   William J. Rapaport Pages 385-426

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   The Role of Observers in Computations

   Peter Leupold Pages 427-444

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   Computers in Abstraction/Representation Theory

   Samuel C. Fletcher Pages 445-463

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   Virtual Machines and Real Implementations

   Tyler Millhouse Pages 465-489

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   Does Kripke’s Argument Against Functionalism Undermine the Standard View of What Computers Are?

   Jeff Buechner Pages 491-513

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   From Computer Metaphor to Computational Modeling: The Evolution of Computationalism

   Marcin Miłkowski Pages 515-541

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   Computers Aren’t Syntax All the Way Down or Content All the Way Up

   Cem Bozşahin Pages 543-567

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   Computing Mechanisms Without Proper Functions

   Joe Dewhurst Pages 569-588

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    Super Artifacts: Personal Devices as Intrinsically Multifunctional, Meta-representational Artifacts with a Highly Variable Structure

    Marco Fasoli Pages 589-604

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    The Swapping Constraint

    Henry Ian Schiller Pages 605-622