Computing and philosophy: selected papers from IACAP 2014
This volume offers very selected papers from the 2014 conference of the ℓ́ℓInternational Association for Computing and Philosophyℓ́ℓ (IACAP) - a conference tradition of 28 years. The theme of the papers is the two-way relation between computing technologies and philosophical questions: Computing technologies both raise new philosophical questions, and shed light on traditional philosophical problems. The chapters cover: 1) philosophy of computing, 2) philosophy of computer science & discovery, 3)…
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- Full title :Computing and philosophy : selected papers from IACAP 2014 / Vincent C. Müller, editor.
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This volume offers very selected papers from the 2014 conference of the ℓ́ℓInternational Association for Computing and Philosophyℓ́ℓ (IACAP) - a conference tradition of 28 years. The theme of the papers is the two-way relation between computing technologies and philosophical questions: Computing technologies both raise new philosophical questions, and shed light on traditional philosophical problems. The chapters cover: 1) philosophy of computing, 2) philosophy of computer science & discovery, 3) philosophy of cognition & intelligence, 4) computing & society, and 5) ethics of computation.
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- Publication Date:2016
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- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:Cham [Germany]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783319232911, 3319232916, 3319232908, 9783319232904
- DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-23291-1
- oclc:ocn932463998
- LC Classification:QA76.167
- Dewey Decimal:004.01
Table of Contents
4.6 An Explanatory ConjectureAppendix; References; 5 In What Sense Does the Brain Compute?; 5.1 Engineered Implementation; 5.2 Natural Computation?; 5.3 Three Different Senses; 5.4 Critique of Senses (1) and (2); 5.5 Computation Is Non-intrinsic; 5.6 Computational Ascriptions Are Normative, Not Causal; 5.7 Error and Malfunction; 5.8 Computation Versus Explanation; 5.9 The Brain as Cognitive Computer; References; Part II Philosophy of Computer Science & Discovery; 6 Computational Scientific Discovery and Cognitive ScienceTheories; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Scientific Discovery.
6.3 Theories in Behavioural and Cognitive Science6.4 A Computational System for Theory Discovery in Cognitive Science; 6.5 Example of Theory Discovery; 6.6 Discussion; References; 7 Discovering Empirical Theories of Modular Software Systems. An Algebraic Approach; 7.1 Introduction: The Need of Empirical Theories of Software Systems; 7.2 Discovering Empirical Theories of Software Systems; 7.3 Modular Semantic Theories and Empirical Structuralism; 7.4 Using Institutions to Build Modular Semantic Theories; 7.5 Concluding Remarks; References.
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