Philosophy of Computing Themes from IACAP 2019

This book features a unique selection of works presented at the 2019 annual international conference of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP). Every contribution has been peer-reviewed, revised, and extended. The included chapters are thematically diverse; topics include...

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Other Authors: Lundgren, Björn (Editor), Nuñez Hernández, Nancy Abigail (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Philosophical Studies Series
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Ethical themes on artificial intelligence and robotics
  • 1. Our Technology Fetish, John Weckert
  • 2. AI-Driven Behavior Change and the Parameters of Ethical Permissibility, Fiona
  • McEvoy
  • 3. Self-driving Cars: An Ethical Overview, Björn Lundgren
  • 4. Machiavellian Machines: Glitching AI, Steve T. McKinlay
  • 5. Artificial Intelligence, Transparency, and Public Decision-Making - Why we should
  • opt for explaining AI assistants, Karl de Fine Licht and Jenny de Fine Licht
  • 6. Predictive Fairness, Anders Herlitz
  • 7. Misdirection in Robot Teams: Methods and Ethical Considerations, Ronald Arkin
  • 8. Creating Moral Ideals in AI through Buddhist Principles, Angelica Fleury
  • 9. Kantian one day, Consequentialistthe next: Moral emotions as mediators between
  • ethical frameworks for robots, Alan Wagner, Jason Borenstein and Ronald Arkin
  • 10. The Aristotelian Robot, Eduardo Mendieta and Alan Wagner
  • Distributed computation and epistemic logic
  • 1. “You will never know”: The topology of surprise, Alexandru Baltag
  • 2. Distributed computing, epistemic logic and topology, Sergio Rajsbaum
  • 3. Distributed Computing with Bounded Rational Agents, Armando Castañeda
  • 4. Topological Models of Group Knowledge, Aldo Iván Ramírez-Abarca
  • 5. Logic and Computation of Social Behavior, Sonja Smets
  • 6. Stratified evidence logic, David Fernández-Duque
  • 7. Reliability-based preference dynamics, Fernando Velázquez-Quesada
  • 8. A Dynamic Logic for Learning Theory, Ana Lucia Vargas-Sandoval
  • 9. Engineering distributed systems: how efficient is a computational model?, Alice
  • Martin and Mathieu Magnaudet
  • 10. Some phenomenological considerations in computational modeling of analogy,
  • Eduardo García-Mendiola
  • 11. Underdetermination after Computation, Don Berkich
  • Philosophy of science and computation
  • 1. Epistemology of Computer Simulations, Juan M. Duran
  • 11. Castigation by Robot: Should Robots be Allowed to Punish Us?, Himavath Jois and
  • Alan Wagner
  • 12. Ethics and New Epistemology of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, Ricardo Vigueras
  • 2. Inappropriate Notions of 'Theory' and their Practical Consequences in the Discipline
  • of Software 'Engineering', Stefan Gruner
  • 3. Mathematical Explanation and the Problem of Counterpossibles, Erlantz Etxeberria
  • 4. Meta-Abduction. Inference to the Best Prediction, Christian J. Feldbacher Escamilla
  • 5. Causal judgments and model implementation, Tomasz Wysocki
  • 6. The Epiphenomenal Puzzle and the Formal Conception of Computational Dynamics,
  • Mauricio Eduardo Bieletto Bueno
  • 7. On the Conciliation of Traditional and Computer-Assisted Proofs, Lourdes Del
  • Carmen González Huesca and Favio Ezequiel Miranda Perea
  • 8. How Artificial is Data?, Robin Hill
  • 9. On Computer Simulations, with particular Regard to their Application in
  • Contemporary Astrophysics: some SciencePhilosophical Considerations, Stefan
  • Gruner and Matthias Bartelmann
  • 10. Lighthill's Anti Formalist Falsification of AI in Philosophical Context, Steven Meyer
  • 11. Implementing algorithmic and computational design in philosophical pedagogy,
  • Rocco Gangle
  • 12. Is there anything special about the type of defectiveness involved in Big Data?: Some
  • reflections on ignorance and Astrophysics, Maria Del Rosario Martinez Ordaz
  • 13. The birth of Evil Genius, Mauricio Algalan-Meneses
  • Computation and cognition
  • 1. Integrating computation into the mechanistic hierarchy in the cognitive and neural
  • science, Oron Shagrir and Lotem ElberDorozko
  • 2. Types, Tokens and Turing Tests, Paul Schweizer
  • 3. Fixed-parameter tractability of cognitive capacities and the usefulness of deductive
  • reasoning, Nancy Abigail Nuñez Hernández
  • 4. Boundedly Rational Concept Formation, David Abel and Mark Ho
  • 5.Inferential Knowledge and Knowledge Representation, Yves Bouchard
  • 6. Logic and Heuristics in Cognitive Psychology and Computational Sciences: Friends
  • or Enemies?, Karen Gonzalez-Fernandez