Overview
- Offers a systematic philosophical and historical analysis of operating systems
- Presents novel research in the history of computing
- Features philosophical analysis grounded in technical aspects
Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 133)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Programming Without Systems
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Formalizing Systems
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Creating Systems
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Evaluating Systems
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Keywords
- Operating Systems
- Evolution of Software and Hardware
- Business Computing
- Ethical Software
- History of Programming Languages
- Coding practices
- OS historical analysis
- OS Philosophical Analysis
- History graphical user interfaces
- Ontology GUI
- Unix system history
- AISB/IACAP Conference Proceedings
- IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
- THE operating system
- Data Validation history
- ALGOL 60
About this book
This book presents a historical and philosophical analysis of programming systems, intended as large computational systems like, for instance, operating systems, programmed to control processes. The introduction to the volume emphasizes the contemporary need of providing a foundational analysis of such systems, rooted in a broader historical and philosophical discussion.
The different chapters are grouped around three major themes. The first concerns the early history of large systems developed against the background of issues related to the growing semantic gap between hardware and code. The second revisits the fundamental issue of complexity of large systems, dealt with by the use of formal methods and the development of `grand designs’ like Unix. Finally, a third part considers several issues related to programming systems in the real world, including chapters on aesthetical, ethical and political issues.
This book will interest researchers from a diversityof backgrounds. It will appeal to historians, philosophers, as well as logicians and computer scientists who want to engage with topics relevant to the history and philosophy of programming and more specifically the role of programming systems in the foundations of computing.
Reviews
“This very interesting book clearly demonstrates, with quite a few examples, that essential computing concepts have been around for quite some time. I highly recommend it.” (H. I. Kilov, Computing Reviews, January 21, 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Giuseppe Primiero is Associate Professor of Logic at the Department of Philosophy, University of Milan (Italy). He is President of the DHST-DLMPST Commission on the History and Philosophy of Computing, Member at Large of the Leadership Committee of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy and since 2016 Secretary General for the Association Computability in Europe. His research areas include logic, philosophy of information and computation.
Liesbeth De Mol is a CNRS researcher based in France. She is the founding president of the DHST/DLMPST Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing, coundil and steering committee member of the Association for Computability in Europe and principal investigator of the ANR research project PROGRAMme on the history and philosophy of computer programs (2018-2022). Her research focuses on the histoircal and epistemological connections between logic, programming and computing.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reflections on Programming Systems
Book Subtitle: Historical and Philosophical Aspects
Editors: Liesbeth De Mol, Giuseppe Primiero
Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97226-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97225-1Published: 21 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97226-8Published: 10 January 2019
Series ISSN: 0921-8599
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 286
Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Operating Systems, History of Computing, History of Science, History of Technology