Beyond the universal Turing machine
B. Jack Copeland, Richard Sylvan · Australasian Journal of Philosophy · 1999
We describe an emerging field, that of nonclassical computability and nonclassical computing machinery. According to the nonclassicist, the set of well-defined computations is not exhausted by the computations that can be carried out by a Turing machine. We provide an overview of the field and a philosophical defence of its foundations.