The theme of this volume is the multi-faceted 'computational turn' that is occurring through the interaction of the disciplines of philosophy and computing. In computer and information sciences, there are significant conceptual and methodological questions that require reflection and analysis. Moreover, digital, information and communication technologies have had tremendous impact on society, which raises further philosophical questions. This book tries to facilitate the task to continuously work to ensure that its diversity of perspectives and methods proves a source of strength and collaboration rather than a source of instability and disintegration. The first three contributions explore the phenomenon of virtual worlds. The next four focus on robots and artificial agents. Then a group of chapters discusses the relation between human mentality and information processing in computers and the final section covers a broad range of issues at the interface of computers and society.
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Author(s): Adam Briggle, Katinka Waelbers, Philip Brey
Series: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 175
Publisher: IOS Press
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 216
Title page......Page 1
Introduction......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Me, My Avatar, and I: Exploring Virtual Worlds......Page 9
Meta Ethics for the Metaverse: The Ethics of Virtual Worlds......Page 11
On the Ecological/Representational Structure of Virtual Environments......Page 21
The Dynamic Representation of Reality and of Ourself between Real and Virtual Worlds......Page 32
Living with the Golem: Robots and Autonomous Agents......Page 41
Can a Robot Intentionally Conduct Mutual Communication with Human Beings?......Page 43
On the Ethical Quandaries of a Practicing Roboticist: A First-Hand Look......Page 53
How Just Could a Robot War Be?......Page 58
Limits to the Autonomy of Agents......Page 73
Mind and World: Knowing, Thinking, and Representing......Page 85
Formalising the ‘No Information without Data-Representation’ Principle......Page 87
The Computer as Cognitive Artifact and Simulator of Worlds......Page 99
The Panic Room: On Synthetic Emotions......Page 111
Representation in Digital Systems......Page 124
Information, Knowledge and Confirmation Holism......Page 130
Phenomenal Consciousness: Sensorimotor Contingencies and the Constitution of Objects......Page 141
Computing in Society: Designing, Learning, and Searching......Page 151
Towards an Intelligent Tutoring System for Propositional Proof Construction......Page 153
Toward Aligning Computer Programming with Clear Thinking via the Reason Programming Language......Page 164
Ethics and the Practice of Software Design......Page 179
How to Explain the Underrepresentation of Women in Computer Science Studies......Page 192
How the Web Is Changing the Way We Trust......Page 202
Author Index......Page 213
