This edited volume explores the intersection between philosophy and computing. It features work presented at the 2016 annual meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. The 23 contributions to this volume neatly represent a cross section of 40 papers, four keynote addresses, and eight symposia as they cut across six distinct research agendas.

The volume begins with foundational studies in computation and information, epistemology and philosophy of science, and logic. The contributions next examine research into computational aspects of cognition and philosophy of mind. This leads to a look at moral dimensions of man-machine interaction as well as issues of trust, privacy, and justice. This multi-disciplinary or, better yet, a-disciplinary investigation reveals the fruitfulness of erasing distinctions among and boundaries between established academic disciplines. This should come as no surprise. The computational turn itself is a-disciplinary and no former discipline, whether scientific, artistic, or humanistic, has remained unchanged. Rigorous reflection on the nature of these changes opens the door to inquiry into the nature of the world, what constitutes our knowledge of it, and our understanding of our place in it. These investigations are only just beginning. The contributions to this volume make this clear: many encourage further research and end with open questions.

Autorentext

Matteo Vincenzo d'Alfonso is professor for History of Philosophy at the University of Ferrara. He works on German Idealism, mainly on the relationships between practical and theoretical reason in the philosphies of Kant, Fichte and Schopenhauer. Among his publications Vom Wissen zur Weisheit. Fichtes Wissenschaftslehre 2011, Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York 2005 and Schopenhauers Kollegnachschriften der Metaphysik- und Psychologievorlesungen E. G. Schulzes (Göttigen 1810-11), Ergon, Würzbürg 2009.

Don Berkich is associate professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and currently serves as president of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. Inspired by the diverse interdisciplinary interests of his colleagues in IACAP, his research centers on artificial agency and computability and complexity constraints on cognition. **

Inhalt

Introduction.- Part I: Computation and Information.- Chapter 1. Computation in Physical Systems: A Normative Mapping Account (Paul Schweizer).- Chapter 2. The Notion of 'Information': Enlightening or Forming? (Stefan Gruner and Francois Oberholzer).- Part II: Logic.- Chapter 3. Modal -Logic: Automata, Neo-Logicism, and Set-theoretic Realism (Hasen Khudairi).- Chapter 4. What Arrow's Information Paradox Says (To Philosophers) (Mario Piazza and Marco Pedicini).- Part III: Epistemology and Science.- Chapter 5. Antimodularity: Pragmatic Consequences of Computational Complexity on Scientific Explanation (Luca Rivelli).- Chapter 6. The End of Reductionism (Russ Abbott).- Chapter 7. Politics and Epistemology of Big Data: A Critical Assessment (Teresa Numerico).- Part IV: Cognition and Mind.- Chapter 8. Telepresence and the Role of the Senses (Ingvar Tjostheim and Wolfgang Leister).- Chapter 9. Ontologies, Mental Disorders and Prototype (M. Cristina Amoretti, Marcello Frixione, Antonio Lieto and Greta Adamo).- Chapter 10. Why-Questions and Levels of Analysis in Large-Scale Simulations of the Brain (Edoardo Datteri).- Chapter 11. Virtual information in the light of Kant's Practical Reason (Matteo d'Alfonso).- Chapter 12. A Kantian Cognitive Architecture (Richard Evans).- Part V: Moral Dimensions of Human-Machine Interaction.- Chapter 13. Machine Learning and Irresponsible Inference: Morally Assessing the Training Data for Image Recognition Systems (Owen King).- Chapter 14. Robotic Responsibility (Anna Wilks).- Chapter 15. Robots, Ethics, and Intimacy: The Need for Scientific Research (Jason Borenstein and Ronald Arkin).- Chapter 16. Applying a Social-Relational Model to Explore the Curious Case of hitchBOT (Frances Grodzinsky, Marty J. Wolf and Keith Miller).- Chapter 17. Against Human Exceptionalism: Environmental Ethics and Machine Question (Migle Laukyte).- Chapter 18. The Ethics of Choice in Single-Player Video Games (Erica Neely).- Part VI: Trust, Privacy, and Justice.- Chapter 19. Obfuscation and Good Enough Anonymity (Tony Doyle).- Chapter 20. Trust and Security in the Digital Age. Algorithms, Standards, and Risks (Massimo Durante).- Chapter 21. Tolerating Justice: A Normative Stance on the Hard Cases of the Law in the Information Era (Ugo Pagallo).