Gualtiero Piccinini

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Curators' Distinguished Professor
216 Middlebush Hall
Faculty
Education

PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

Research

Computation, Epistemology, Language, Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Science

Select Publications

Anderson, N.G., & Piccinini, G. (2024). The physical signature of computation: A robust mapping account. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-physical-signature-of-computation-9780198833642

Piccinini, G. (2022). An egalitarian account of composition and realization. The Monist, 105(2), 276–292. https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onab035

Piccinini, G. (2022). Knowledge as factually grounded belief. American Philosophical Quarterly, 59(4), 403-417. https://doi.org/10.5406/21521123.59.4.06

Piccinini, G. (2022). Situated neural representations: Solving the problems of content. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 16, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2022.846979

Piccinini, G. (2020). Neurocognitive mechanisms: Explaining biological cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198866282.001.0001 (Chinese translation, 2023)

Piccinini, G. (2015). Physical computation: A mechanistic account. Oxford, Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658855.001.0001