Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. 1. The Cultural Functions of Computation 1
4. Part one. Computationalism and Cognition
5. 2. Chomsky’s Computationalism 31
6. 3. Genealogies of Philosophical Functionalism 59
7. Part two. Computationalism and Language
8. 4. Computationalist Linguistics 83
9. 5. Linguistic Computationalism 104
10. Part three. Cultural Computationalism
11. 6. Computation, Globalization, and Cultural Striation 129
12. 7. Computationalism, Striation, and Cultural Authority 155
13. Part four. Computationalist Politics
14. 8. Computationalism and Political Individualism 181
15. 9. Computationalism and Political Authority 197
16. Epilogue. Computers without Computationalism 221
17. Notes 227
18. References 233
19. Acknowledgments 251
20. Index 253