Computing and Philosophy [electronic resource] : Selected Papers from IACAP 2014 /
Müller, Vincent C.editor.
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.
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Editorial -- Part I philosophy of computing -- Chapter 1 Çem Bozsahin. What's a computational constraint? -- Chapter 2 Joe Dewhurst. Computing Mechanisms and Autopoietic Systems -- Chapter 3 Vincenzo Fano, Pierluigi Graziani, Roberto Macrelli and Gino Tarozzi. Are Gandy Machines really local? -- Chapter 4 Doukas Kapantais. A refutation of the Church-Turing thesis according to some interpretation of what the thesis says -- Chapter 5 Paul Schweizer. In What Sense Does the Brain Compute? -- Part II philosophy of computer science & discovery -- Chapter 6 Mark Addis, Peter Sozou, Peter C R Lane and Fernand Gobet. Computational Scientific Discovery and Cognitive Science Theories -- Chapter 7 Nicola Angius and Petros Stefaneas. Discovering Empirical Theories of Modular Software Systems. An Algebraic Approach -- Chapter 8 Selmer Bringsjord, John Licato, Daniel Arista, Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu and Paul Bello. Introducing the Doxastically Centered Approach to Formalizing Relevance Bonds in Conditionals -- Chapter 9 Orly Stettiner. From Silico to Vitro: Computational Models of Complex Biological Systems Reveal Real-world Emergent Phenomena -- Part III philosophy of cognition & intelligence -- Chapter 10 Douglas Campbell. Why We Shouldn't Reason Classically, and the Implications for Artificial Intelligence -- Chapter 11 Stefano Franchi. Cognition as Higher Order Regulation -- Chapter 12 Marcello Guarini. Eliminativisms, Languages of Thought, & the Philosophy of Computational Cognitive Modeling -- Chapter 13 Marcin Miłkowski. A Mechanistic Account of Computational Explanation in Cognitive Science and Computational Neuroscience -- Chapter 14 Alex Tillas. Internal supervision & clustering: A new lesson from 'old' findings? -- Part IV computing & society -- Chapter 15 Vasileios Galanos. Floridi/Flusser: Parallel Lives in Hyper/Posthistory -- Chapter 16 Paul Bello. Machine Ethics and Modal Psychology -- Chapter 17 Marty J. Wolf and Nir Fresco. My Liver Is Broken, Can You Print Me a New One? -- Chapter 18 Marty J. Wolf, Frances Grodzinsky and Keith W. Miller. Robots, Ethics and Software - FOSS vs. Proprietary Licenses.
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.
Philosophy of mind.
Artificial intelligence.
Consciousness.
Philosophy of Mind.
Artificial Intelligence.
Cognitive Psychology.