Floridi The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75676-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Philosophy Guides

This Guide provides an ambitious state-of-the-art survey ofthe fundamental themes, problems, arguments and theoriesconstituting the philosophy of computing.
* * A complete guide to the philosophy of computing andinformation.
* Comprises 26 newly-written chapters by leading internationalexperts.
* Provides a complete, critical introduction to the field.
* Each chapter combines careful scholarship with an engagingwriting style.
* Includes an exhaustive glossary of technical terms.
* Ideal as a course text, but also of interest to researchers andgeneral readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Floridi, Luciano

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.
Preface.
Part I: Four Concepts:.
1. B. Jack Copeland, Computation.
2. Alasdair Urquhart, Complexity.
3. Klaus Mainzer, System: An Introduction to SystemsScience.
4. Luciano Floridi, Information.
Part II: Computers in Society:.
5. Deborah G Johnson, Computer Ethics.
6. Charles Ess, Computer-mediated Communication andHuman-Computer Interaction.
7. Wesley Cooper, Internet Culture.
8. Dominic McIver Lopes, Digital Art.
Part III: Mind and AI:.
9. James H.Fetzer, The Philosophy of AI and its Critique.
10. Brian P. McLaughlin, Computationalism, Connectionism and thePhilosophy of Mind.
Part IV: Real and Virtual Worlds:.
11. Barry Smith, Ontology.
12. Derek Stanovsky, Virtual Reality.
13. Eric Steinhart, The Physics of Information.
14. Roberto Cordeschi, Cybernetics.
15. Mark A. Bedau, Artificial Life.
Part V: Language and Knowledge:.
16.Jonathan Cohen, Information and Content.
17. Fred Adams, Knowledge.
18. Graham White, The Philosophy of Computer Languages.
19. Thierry Bardini, Hypertext.
Part VI: Logic and Probability:.
20. G. Aldo Antonelli, Logic.
21. Donald Gillies, Probability in Artificial Intelligence.
22. Cristina Bicchieri, Game Theory: Nash Equilibrium.
Part VII: Science and Technology:.
23. Paul Thagard, Computing in the Philosophy of Science.
24. Timothy Colburn, Methodology of Computer Science.
25. Carl Mitcham, Philosophy of Information Technology.
26. Patrick Grim, Computational Modeling as a PhilosophicalMethodology.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Luciano Floridi is Associate Professor of Logic and Epistemology at the University of Bari and Markle Foundation Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he is a member of the Faculty of Philosophy and of the Sub-Faculty of Computing. He is the author of Sextus Empiricus: The Recovery and Transmission of Pyrrhonism (2002), Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction (1999), Internet: An Epistemological Essay (1997), and Scepticism and the Foundation of Epistemology: A Study in the Metalogical Fallacies (1996).