Computing and Philosophy: Selected Papers from IACAP 2014

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Computing and Philosophy: Selected Papers from IACAP 2014 (Synthese Library) by Vincent C. Müller
English | 2015 | ISBN: 3319232908 | 282 pages | PDF | 3,4 MB

This volume offers very selected papers from the 2014 conference of the “International Association for Computing and Philosophy” (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.