Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Juliet Floyd

   Pages 1-35

3. Correction to: Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing

   • Juliet Floyd, Alisa Bokulich

   Pages C1-C1

4. Logic and Mathematics to Philosophy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Turing, the Mathematician

      • Daniele Mundici, Wilfried Sieg

      Pages 39-62

   3. Turing, Gödel and the “Bright Abyss”

      • Juliette Kennedy

      Pages 63-91

   4. Justified True Belief: Plato, Gettier, and Turing

      • Rohit Parikh, Adriana Renero

      Pages 93-102

   5. Turing on “Common Sense”: Cambridge Resonances

      • Juliet Floyd

      Pages 103-149

5. The Universal Machine: From Music to Morphogenesis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Universality Is Ubiquitous

      • Martin Davis

      Pages 153-158

   3. The Early History of Voice Encryption

      • Craig Bauer

      Pages 159-187

   4. Turing and the History of Computer Music

      • B. Jack Copeland, Jason Long

      Pages 189-218Open Access

   5. Exploring the Frontiers of Computation: Measurement Based Quantum Computers and the Mechanistic View of Computation

      • Armond Duwell

      Pages 219-232

   6. Embodying Computation at Higher Types

      • S. Barry Cooper

      Pages 233-262

6. Human, Machine, and Mind

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263

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   2. On Computing Machinery and Intelligence

      • Patrick Henry Winston

      Pages 265-278

   3. From Ockham to Turing – and Back Again

      • Michael Rescorla

      Pages 279-304

   4. Turing and Free Will: A New Take on an Old Debate

      • Diane Proudfoot

      Pages 305-321Open Access

   5. Turing on the Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence

      • Susan G. Sterrett

      Pages 323-338

   6. Is There a Church-Turing Thesis for Social Algorithms?

      • Rohit Parikh

      Pages 339-357

Chapters “Turing and Free Will: A New Take on an Old Debate” and “Turing and the History of Computer Music” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

• Alan Turing
• Alonzo Church
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computability and Philosophy
• Cryptography
• Enigma Machine
• Knowledge in Social Algorithms
• Kurt Gödel
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Measurement Based Quantum Computers
• Morphogenesis
• Philosophical Aspects of Turing’s Work
• Social Algorithms
• Turing's Concept of "Universal Machine"
• Voice Encryption

“The book provides, probably for the first time, not only all the elements necessary for assessing the full importance of Turing’s legacy but also fundamental lines of thought for connecting his work with new research perspectives. It will be an indispensable reference for understanding and developing all the concepts and ideas introduced by Turing.” (Jean-Marc Ginoux, Isis, Vol. 110 (4), 2019)

• Department of Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, USA

  Juliet Floyd, Alisa Bokulich

Juliet Floyd is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University and researches the interplay between logic, mathematics, and philosophy in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  She has written extensively on Wittgenstein, Gödel and Turing and also published articles on Kant, aesthetics, and eighteenth century philosophy.  She is currently Associate Senior Editor in Twentieth Century philosophy at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and has co-edited (with S. Shieh) Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth Century Philosophy (Oxford, 2001) and (with J.E. Katz) Philosophy of Emerging Media: Understanding, Appreciation, Application (Oxford, 2016) as well as many articles.

Alisa Bokulich is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University and Director of the Center for Philosophy & History of Science, where she organizes the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science.  She is Associate Member ofHarvard University’s History of Science Department and a Series Editor for Boston Studies in the Philosophy & History of Science.  Her research focuses on issues in philosophy of science, including history and philosophy of quantum mechanics, and philosophy of the geosciences.  She is author of the book Reexamining the Quantum-Classical Relation: Beyond Reductionism and Pluralism (Cambridge UP, 2008) and co-editor of three additional books.

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