Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing
Turing 100
Editors: Floyd, Juliet, Bokulich, Alisa (Eds.)
Free Preview- First volume dedicated to Turing’s place in the history and philosophy of science
- A broad and up-to-date overview of Turing’s legacy for 20th & 21st century science
- An historical and philosophical revisiting of the foundational character of Turing’s conceptual contributions
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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.
- About the authors
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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 of Harvard 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. - Reviews
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“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)
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-35
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Turing, the Mathematician
Pages 39-62
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Turing, Gödel and the “Bright Abyss”
Pages 63-91
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Justified True Belief: Plato, Gettier, and Turing
Pages 93-102
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Turing on “Common Sense”: Cambridge Resonances
Pages 103-149
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing
- Book Subtitle
- Turing 100
- Editors
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- Juliet Floyd
- Alisa Bokulich
- Series Title
- Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
- Series Volume
- 324
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-53280-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-53280-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-53278-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-85113-6
- Series ISSN
- 0068-0346
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 361
- Number of Illustrations
- 49 b/w illustrations
- Topics