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1 online resource (290 pages) |
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HIST and PHIL of Technoscience |
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HIST and PHIL of Technoscience
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction: Philosophy's Relevance in Computing and Information Science; Part I: Philosophy of Computing and Information; 1 The Fourth Revolution in our Self-Understanding; 2 Information Transfer as a Metaphor; 3 With Aristotle towards a Differentiated Concept of Information?; 4 The Influence of Philosophy on the Understanding of Computing and Information; Part II: Complexity and System Theory; 5 The Emergence of Self-Conscious Systems: From Symbolic AI to Embodied Robotics |
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6 Artificial Intelligence as a New Metaphysical ProjectPart III: Ontology; 7 The Relevance of Philosophical Ontology to Information and Computer Science; 8 Ontology, its Origins and its Meaning in Information Science; 9 Smart Questions: Steps towards an Ontology of Questions and Answers; Part IV: Knowledge Representation; 10 Sophisticated Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Requires Philosophy; 11 On Frames and Theory-Elements of Structuralism ; 12 Ontological Complexity and Human Culture; Part V: Action Theory; 13 Knowledge and Action between Abstraction and Concretion |
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14 Action-Directing Construction of Reality in Product Creation Using Social Software: Employing Philosophy to Solve Real-World Problems15 An Action-Theory-Based Treatment of Temporal Individuals; 16 Four Rules for Classifying Social Entities; Part VI: Info-Computationalism; 17 Info-Computationalism and Philosophical Aspects of Research in Information Sciences; 18 Pancomputationalism: Theory or Metaphor?; Part VII: Ethics; 19 The Importance of the Sources of Professional Obligations; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
Over the last four decades computers and the internet have become an intrinsic part of all our lives, but this speed of development has left related philosophical enquiry behind. Featuring the work of computer scientists and philosophers, these essays provide an overview of an exciting new area of philosophy that is still taking shape |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317317562 |
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1317317564 |
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