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Review of Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account by Gualtiero Piccinini - Gualtiero Piccinini, Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2015), 313 pp., $65.00 (cloth).

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Oron Shagrir
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 84 , Issue 3 , July 2017 , pp. 604 - 612
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