Computing and Philosophy

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Computing and Philosophy is written by Vincent C. Müller and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319232916 (ISBN 10) and 9783319232911 (ISBN 13).

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.