Aug 20, 2013 · The philosophy of computer science is concerned with the ontological and methodological issues arising from within the academic discipline of computer science, and from the …

Indeed, the abstract nature of computer science, coupled with its technological ambitions, ensures that many of the conceptual questions that arise in the philosophies of mathematics and technology have …

Mar 16, 2020 · After touching on historical precursors, this article discusses contemporary computational philosophy across a variety of fields: epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, ethics and …

Sep 16, 2005 · In Plato’s Phaedo, Socrates says a recurring dream instructs him to “compose music and work at it” and that he had always interpreted it to mean something like keep doing philosophy …

That abstract vision lay the groundwork for fully concrete symbol-processing machines: our contemporary computers. In computational philosophy, that contemporary computer power is applied …

Apr 30, 2020 · These later drafts were presented to audiences at the INBOTS Project Meeting (Reykjavik 2019), the Computer Science Department Colloquium (Leeds 2019), the European …

Mar 19, 2004 · It has become one of the best-known arguments in recent philosophy. Searle imagines himself alone in a room following a computer program for responding to Chinese characters slipped …

Jun 3, 2002 · Turing rapidly composed a detailed plan for a modern stored-program computer: that is, a computer in which data and instructions are stored and manipulated alike. Turing's ideas led the …

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May 6, 2013 · When philosophers of science write about computer simulation, and make claims about what epistemological or methodological properties “computer simulations” have, they usually mean …