Current Issues in Computing and Philosophy
1st Edition
Published on 15. June 2008
216 pages
978-1-60750-343-9 (ISBN)
Description
The theme of this volume is the multi-faceted 'computational turn' that is occurring through the interaction of the disciplines of philosophy and computing. In computer and information sciences, there are significant conceptual and methodological questions that require reflection and analysis. Moreover, digital, information and communication technologies have had tremendous impact on society, which raises further philosophical questions. This book tries to facilitate the task to continuously work to ensure that its diversity of perspectives and methods proves a source of strength and collaboration rather than a source of instability and disintegration. The first three contributions explore the phenomenon of virtual worlds. The next four focus on robots and artificial agents. Then a group of chapters discusses the relation between human mentality and information processing in computers and the final section covers a broad range of issues at the interface of computers and society.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
Netherlands
Publishing group
IOS Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
1,77 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-60750-343-9 (9781607503439)
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Adam Briggle | Philip A.E. Brey
Current Issues in Computing and Philosophy
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06/2008
1st Edition
IOS Press,US
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Content
- Title page
- Introduction
- Contents
- Me, My Avatar, and I: Exploring Virtual Worlds
- Meta Ethics for the Metaverse: The Ethics of Virtual Worlds
- On the Ecological/Representational Structure of Virtual Environments
- The Dynamic Representation of Reality and of Ourself between Real and Virtual Worlds
- Living with the Golem: Robots and Autonomous Agents
- Can a Robot Intentionally Conduct Mutual Communication with Human Beings?
- On the Ethical Quandaries of a Practicing Roboticist: A First-Hand Look
- How Just Could a Robot War Be?
- Limits to the Autonomy of Agents
- Mind and World: Knowing, Thinking, and Representing
- Formalising the 'No Information without Data-Representation' Principle
- The Computer as Cognitive Artifact and Simulator of Worlds
- The Panic Room: On Synthetic Emotions
- Representation in Digital Systems
- Information, Knowledge and Confirmation Holism
- Phenomenal Consciousness: Sensorimotor Contingencies and the Constitution of Objects
- Computing in Society: Designing, Learning, and Searching
- Towards an Intelligent Tutoring System for Propositional Proof Construction
- Toward Aligning Computer Programming with Clear Thinking via the Reason Programming Language
- Ethics and the Practice of Software Design
- How to Explain the Underrepresentation of Women in Computer Science Studies
- How the Web Is Changing the Way We Trust
- Author Index
