Notes on Contributors ........................................ viii
Preface ........................................................ xi
Part I: Four Concepts ......................................... 1
1. Computation ................................................. 3
B. Jack Copeland
2. Complexity ................................................. 18
Alasdair Urquhart
3. System: An Introduction to Systems Science ................. 28
Klaus Mainzer
4. Information ................................................ 40
Luciano Floridi
Part II: Computers in Society ................................. 63
5. Computer Ethics ............................................ 65
Deborah G. Johnson
6. Computer-mediated Communication and Human-Computer
Interaction ................................................ 76
Charles Ess
7. Internet Culture ........................................... 92
Wesley Cooper
8. Digital Art ............................................... 106
Dominic McIver Lopes
Part III: Mind and AI ......................................... 117
9. The Philosophy of АI and its Critique ..................... 119
James H. Fetzer
10. Computationaiism, Connectionism, and the Philosophy
of Mind ................................................... 135
Brian P. McLaughlin
Part IV: Real and Virtual Worlds ............................. 153
11. Ontology .................................................. 155
Barry Smith
12. Virtual Reality ........................................... 167
Derek Stanovsky
13. The Physics of Information ................................ 178
Eric Steinhart
14. Cybernetics ............................................... 186
Roberto Cordeschi
15. Artificial Life ........................................... 197
Mark A. Bedau
Part V: Language and Knowledge ................................ 213
16. Information and Content ................................... 215
Jonathan Cohen
17. Knowledge ................................................. 228
Fred Adams
18. The Philosophy of Computer Languages ...................... 237
Graham White
19. Hypertext ................................................. 248
Thierry Bardini
Part VI: Logic and Probability ............................... 261
20. Logic ..................................................... 263
G. Aldo Antonelli
21. Probability in Artificial Intelligence .................... 276
Donald Gillies
22. Game Theory: Nash Equilibrium ............................. 289
Cristina Bicchieri
Part VII: Science and Technology .............................. 305
23. Computing in the Philosophy of Science .................... 307
Paul Thagard
24. Methodology of Computer Science ........................... 318
Timothy Colburn
25. Philosophy of Information Technology ...................... 327
Carl Mitcham
26. Computational Modeling as a Philosophical Methodology ..... 337
Patrick Grim
Index ......................................................... 350
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