Philosophy and Computer Science

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M.E. Sharpe, 2000 - 243 pagina's
Colburn (computer science, U. of Minnesota-Duluth) has a doctorate in philosophy and an advanced degree in computer science; he's worked as a philosophy professor, a computer programmer, and a research scientist in artificial intelligence. Here he discusses the philosophical foundations of artificial intelligence; the new encounter of science and philosophy (logic, models of the mind and of reasoning, epistemology); and the philosophy of computer science (touching on math, abstraction, software, and ontology).
 

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Introduction
3
Philosophical Foundations of Artificial
11
AI and the History of Philosophy
19
AI and the Rise of Contemporary Science and Philosophy
41
AI and Logic
53
Models of the Mind
68
Models of Reasoning
87
The Naturalization of Epistemology
105
Computer Science and Mathematics
129
Two Views of Computer Science
153
Abstraction in Computer Science
174
Software Abstraction and Ontology
198
Notes
211
Index
233
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Timothy R. Colburn received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Brown University in 1979, and his M.S. in computer science from Michigan State University in 1981. He has worked as a philosophy professor, a computer programmer, and a research scientist in artificial intelligence. He is currently an associate professor of computer science at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. He can be reached via e-mail at tcolburn@d.umn.edu.

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