This
Guide provides an ambitious state-of-the-art survey of the fundamental themes, problems, arguments and theories constituting the philosophy of computing.
- A complete guide to the philosophy of computing and information.
- Comprises 26 newly-written chapters by leading international experts.
- Provides a complete, critical introduction to the field.
- Each chapter combines careful scholarship with an engaging writing style.
- Includes an exhaustive glossary of technical terms.
- Ideal as a course text, but also of interest to researchers and general readers.
表中的内容
Notes on Contributors.
Preface.
Part I: Four Concepts:.
1. B. Jack Copeland, Computation.
2. Alasdair Urquhart, Complexity.
3. Klaus Mainzer, System: An Introduction to Systems Science.
4. Luciano Floridi, Information.
Part II: Computers in Society:.
5. Deborah G Johnson, Computer Ethics.
6. Charles Ess, Computer-mediated Communication and Human–Computer Interaction.
7. Wesley Cooper, Internet Culture.
8. Dominic Mc Iver Lopes, Digital Art.
Part III: Mind and AI:.
9. James H.Fetzer, The Philosophy of AI and its Critique.
10. Brian P. Mc Laughlin, Computationalism, Connectionism and the Philosophy 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 Philosophical Methodology.
Index.
关于作者
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).
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