This volume presents an historical and philosophical revisiting of the foundational character of Turings conceptual contributions and assesses the impact of the work of Alan Turing on the history and philosophy of science. Written by experts from a variety of disciplines, the book draws out the continuing significance of Turings work. The centennial of Turings birth in 2012 led to the highly celebrated Alan Turing Year, which stimulated a world-wide cooperative, interdisciplinary revisiting of his life and work. Turing is widely regarded as one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century: He is the father of artificial intelligence, resolver of Hilberts famous Entscheidungsproblem, and a code breaker who helped solve the Enigma code. His work revolutionized the very architecture of science by way of the results he obtained in logic, probability and recursion theory, morphogenesis, the foundations of cognitive psychology, mathematics, and cryptography. Many of Turings breakthroughs were stimulated by his deep reflections on fundamental philosophical issues. Hence it is fitting that there be a volume dedicated to the philosophical impact of his work. One important strand of Turings work is his analysis of the concept of computability, which has unquestionably come to play a central conceptual role in nearly every branch of knowledge and engineering.
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The book provides, probably for the first time, not only all the elements necessary for assessing the full importance of Turings 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)
Chapter
1. Introduction (Juliet Floyd).- Part I. Logic and Mathematics
to Philosophy.
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2. Turing, the Mathematician (Daniele Mundici and
Wilfried Sieg).
Chapter
3. Turing, Gödel and the Bright Abyss (Juliette
Kennedy).
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4. Justified True Belief: Plato, Gettier and Turing (Rohit
Parikh and Adriana Renero).
Chapter
5. Turing on Common Sense: Cambridge
Resonances (Juliet Floyd).- Part II. The Universal Machine: From Music to
Morphogenesis.
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6. Universality is Ubiquitous (Martin Davis).-
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7. The Early History of Voice Encryption (Craig Bauer).
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8.
Turing and the History of Computer Music (B. Jack Copeland and Jason Long).-
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9. Exploring the Frontiers of Computation: Measurement Based Quantum
Computers and the Mechanistic View of Computation (Armond Duwell).
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10. Embodying Computation at Higher Types (S. Barry Cooper).- Part III.
Human, Machine, and Mind.
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11. On Computing Machinery and
Intelligence (Patrick Henry Winston).
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12. From Ockham to Turing ---
and Back Again (Michael Rescorla).
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13. Turing and Free Will: A New
Take on An Old Debate (Diane Proudfoot).
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14. Turing and the
Integration of Human and Machine Intelligence (Susan G. Sterrett).
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15. Is there a Church-Turing thesis for social algorithms? (Rohit Parikh).
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 Universitys 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.
