Computing and Philosophy: Selected Papers from IACAP 2014

✍ Scribed by Vincent C. Müller (ed.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 279
• Series: Synthese Library 375
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
What Is a Computational Constraint?....Pages 3-16
Computing Mechanisms and Autopoietic Systems....Pages 17-26
Are Gandy Machines Really Local?....Pages 27-44
A Refutation of the Church-Turing Thesis According to Some Interpretation of What the Thesis Says....Pages 45-62
In What Sense Does the Brain Compute?....Pages 63-79
Front Matter....Pages 81-81
Computational Scientific Discovery and Cognitive Science Theories....Pages 83-97
Discovering Empirical Theories of Modular Software Systems. An Algebraic Approach....Pages 99-115
Introducing the Doxastically Centered Approach to Formalizing Relevance Bonds in Conditionals....Pages 117-131
From Silico to Vitro: Computational Models of Complex Biological Systems Reveal Real-World Emergent Phenomena....Pages 133-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Why We Shouldn’t Reason Classically, and the Implications for Artificial Intelligence....Pages 151-165
Cognition as Higher-Order Regulation....Pages 167-178
Eliminativisms, Languages of Thought, & the Philosophy of Computational Cognitive Modeling....Pages 179-190
A Mechanistic Account of Computational Explanation in Cognitive Science and Computational Neuroscience....Pages 191-205
Internal Supervision & Clustering: A New Lesson from ‘Old’ Findings?....Pages 207-225
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Floridi/Flusser: Parallel Lives in Hyper/Posthistory....Pages 229-243
Machine Ethics and Modal Psychology....Pages 245-258
My Liver Is Broken, Can You Print Me a New One?....Pages 259-269
Robots, Ethics and Software – FOSS vs. Proprietary Licenses....Pages 271-282

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Mind; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Cognitive Psychology