Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing: Turing 100 (1st ed. 2017) (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science #324)

By: Alisa Bokulich and Juliet Floyd

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Synopsis: This volume presents an historical and philosophical revisiting of the foundational character of Turing's 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 Turing's work. The centennial of Turing's 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 Hilbert's 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 Turing's 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 Turing's 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783319532806
Related ISBNs:: 9783319532783
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing, Cham
Date of Addition:: 03/31/21
Copyrighted By:: Springer
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: Nonfiction, Science, Biographies and Memoirs, Technology, Philosophy
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Juliet Floyd
Edited by:: Alisa Bokulich