Overview
- Surveys critical emerging issues in the philosophy of computing
- Examines how computation has changed philosophical inquiry
- Explores applied issues related to ethical, social, and political interest
Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 128)
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This book features papers from CEPE-IACAP 2015, a joint international conference focused on the philosophy of computing. Inside, readers will discover essays that explore current issues in epistemology, philosophy of mind, logic, and philosophy of science from the lens of computation. Coverage also examines applied issues related to ethical, social, and political interest.
The contributors first explore how computation has changed philosophical inquiry. Computers are now capable of joining humans in exploring foundational issues. Thus, we can ponder machine-generated explanation, thought, agency, and other quite fascinating concepts.
The papers are also concerned with normative aspects of the computer and information technology revolution. They examine technology-specific analyses of key challenges, from Big Data to autonomous robots to expert systems for infrastructure control and financial services. The virtue of a collection that ranges over philosophical questions, such as this one does, lies in the prospects for a more integrated understanding of issues. These are early days in the partnership between philosophy and information technology. Philosophers and researchers are still sorting out many foundational issues. They will need to deploy all of the tools of philosophy to establish this foundation. This volume admirably showcases those tools in the hands of some excellent scholars.Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
- Philosophy of Computing
- Computer Ethics
- Artificial Agents
- Machine Ethics
- Autonomous Moral Agents
- Computers Epistemology
- Computers philosophy of mind
- Computers philosophy of science
- Computers political unrest
- Machine agency
- Machine thought
- Machine generated explanation
- Robots Big Data
- engineering ethics
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“The volume is wide-ranging and rich, and contains much that cannot be covered in a single review. It should have something of interest to anyone working on contemporary philosophy of computers and computation.” (Colin Klein,Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, May, 2018)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Thomas M. Powers is the founding director of the Center for Science, Ethics, and Public Policy at the University of Delaware. He holds appointments as Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Delaware Biotechnology Institute. His research concerns ethics in science and engineering, the philosophy of technology, and environmental ethics, and his publications range from topics in artificial intelligence and robotic ethics to the ethical aspects of design. Powers received a B.A. in philosophy (College of William and Mary) and a Ph.D. in philosophy (University of Texas at Austin). He has been a DAAD-Fulbright dissertation-year fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, a National Science Foundation fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia, and a visiting researcher (2015) at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire d'Informatique – Équipe: Agents Cognitifs et A
pprentissage Symbolique Automatique.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophy and Computing
Book Subtitle: Essays in Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Logic, and Ethics
Editors: Thomas M. Powers
Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61043-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61042-9Published: 06 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86989-6Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61043-6Published: 26 October 2017
Series ISSN: 0921-8599
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 242
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Computers and Society, Big Data/Analytics, Engineering Ethics, Artificial Intelligence