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Download or read book Philosophy and Computer Science written by Timothy Colburn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).