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Philosophy of Information, Philosophy of Computing

http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/index.html Luciano Floridi, homepage; http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/papers.htm Floridi papers

http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/blackwell/index.htm The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information

http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/webliography.htm Philosophy of Computing Webliography

http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~aviseu/eng_phil-computing_content.html Luciano Floridi. (1999). Philosophy and computing:
An introduction. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-18024-2. 237 pp.

http://www.formalontology.it/smithbc.htm  Brian Cantwell Smith,  On the Origin of Objects,
(Professor Cantwell Smith has moved to the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto and his old web pages do not work anymore)

http://pcs.essex.ac.uk/  Philosophy of Computer Science, Online and offline resources, Amnon H Eden / Raymond Turner,

Terrell W. Bynum and James Moor (eds.), Digital Phoenix: How Computers are Changing Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell (2002)

Cordeschi, R. The Discovery of the Artificial Behavior, Mind and Machines Before and Beyond Cybernetics, Springer,
Series: Studies in Cognitive Systems, Vol. 28 (2002)

http://orgs.unt.edu/asis/POI.htm  The Philosophy of Information (PoI)

http://www2.eur.nl/fwb/fict/ FICT - Philosophy of Information and Communication Technology, Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam

http://philcomp.org/ Philosophy of Computation, Japan

Exposition on the Philosophy of Information (An Outline), Liu Gang

SOCIETIES, ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTES

http://iacap.org/ The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP)

http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/CAAE/CAP/CAPpage.html Computing and Philosophy

http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/philosophy/ECAP/Computing and Philosophy in Europe

http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/governance/committees/computers/ APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers

http://www.philinfo.org/ The Philosopher's Information Center

http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/BSPS/BSPSHome.html  The British Society for the Philosophy of Science

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/AFOS/Default.html Association for the Foundations of Science, Language and Cognition

http://www.nbi.dk/~natphil/Welcome.html Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies (CPNSS) at the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen

Philosophy and Computing COURSES

http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/courses.htm Philosophy and Computing Courses, A Webliography (Floridi)

http://www.ageofsig.org/courses/p256/index.html Philosophy of Computing course 2002, Professor Brian Cantwell Smith

http://www.ageofsig.org/courses/prior/b609-1998/ Philosophy of Computation course, Professor Brian Cantwell Smith

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/ugrad/Philo.html Philosophy and Computer Science

http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/courses/phil145.html Course: Critical Thinking, Winter, 2002, Professor Paul Thagard

http://www.princeton.edu/~adame/teaching/PHI322_S2003/ Foundations of classical, quantum, and biological computation

http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/courses/phil255.html Philosophy of Mind

http://www.santafe.edu/projects/CompMech/ Computational Mechanics Archive, Santa Fe

NATURAL (BIOINSPIRED) COMPUTING

http://www.lcnc.nl/ Leiden Center for Natural Computing

http://www.ncaf.co.uk/ Natural Computing Applications Forum

http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1567-7818/contents Natural Computing, An International Journal

http://www.springer.de/cgi/svcat/search_book.pl?series=4190&cookie=done Natural Computing Series, Springer

http://www.liacs.nl/~rozenber/ Grzegorz Rozenberg

http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/seth/ar35/ Bioinspired Computing

http://www.cis.udel.edu/~dna3/DNA/dnacomp.html DNA Computing

http://www.cis.udel.edu/~dna3/DNA/dnacomp.html Computational Biology and Molecular Computing

http://dna2z.com/dnacpu/dna.html DNA-Based Computers

http://www.liacs.nl/home/pier/webPagesDNA/ DNA computing web pages

http://www.corninfo.chem.wisc.edu/writings/DNAcomputing.html DNA Computing and Informatics

http://www.nigms.nih.gov/about_nigms/cbcb.html Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

http://iscb.org/ International Society for Computational Biology

http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/compbio/ Bioinformatics (Computational Biology), University of California, Santa Cruz

http://molbio.info.nih.gov/molbio/servers.html Resources, Molecular Biology

http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0169-3867/contents Biology and Philosophy

AUTOPOIESIS

http://www.informatik.umu.se/~rwhit/AT.html The Observer Web. Resources, bibliographies, online texts.

http://www.inteco.cl/biology/index.htm Biology of Cognition Web Page of Humberto Maturana. Send a question to HM.

http://www.ccr.jussieu.fr/varela/ Francisco Varela's Home Page. Mostrly work on neuroscience and human consciousness.

http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~alife/bmcm-ecal97/ Rediscovering Computational Autopoiesis. (1997)  Barry McMullin and Francisco J. Varela.

http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/publications/Working-Papers/97-01-001/ The Original Algorithm. Barry McMullin

http://mat.ethz.ch/d-werk/luisi/index.htm P. Luisi's group. Research on chemical autopoiesis and minimal cells.

http://www.iig.uni-freiburg.de/cognition/csq/pdf-files/boden.pdf Boden, M. A., (2000)  Autopoiesis and Life Cognitive Science Quarterly, 1:1, (pp. 117-145).

ftp://ftp.eeng.dcu.ie/pub/autonomy/bmcm9401/varela.ps.Z Varela, F. J.,  (1994) Autopoiesis and a Biology of Intentionality, In:  McMullin. B., Murphy, N. (eds) Autopoiesis and Perception, Proceedings of a workshop held at Dublin City University on August 25th & 26th, 1992.

http://www.hum.auc.dk/~rasand/Artikler/M78BoL.html Maturana, H. (1978) Biology of Language: The Epistemology of Reality In Miller, George A., and Elizabeth Lenneberg (Eds.)  Psychology and Biology of Language and Thought: Essays in Honor of Eric Lenneberg  New York: Academic Press, pp. 27-63.

EVOLUTION

http://users.mstar2.net/spencersa/evolutus/  Evolution Update News and resources.

http://www.zoo.uib.no/classics/ Evolutionary classics. Online texts

http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/ Darwin Online

http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~jjb/web/baldwin.html  The Baldwin Effect: A Bibliography

http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/CSE/ Centre for the Study of Evolution at Sussex

http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/publications/Bookinforev/baldwin.html A new factor in evolution. Mark Baldwin, The American Naturalist 30 (June 1896): 441-451, 536-553.

http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/dbsr/EVOLUT/SPANDREL.htm "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme"  (1979)S J Gould and R C Lewontin Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, VOL. 205, NO. 1161 (1979), PP. 581-598.

http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/dbsr/EVOLUT/mayr.htm "What is a Species, and What is Not?" (1996), Ernst Mayr Philosophy of Science, VOL. 63 (JUNE 1996) PP. 262-277.

"Niche Construction, Biological Evolution and Cultural Change". Kevin N. Laland, John Odling-Smee, Marcus W. Feldman
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Volume 23, Issue 01. February 2000. pp131-146  BBS preprint.  (Campus-only online access to published version with commentary: go to BBS homepage, click on Cambridge Online Journals and do a keyword search)

K. N. Laland, F. J. Odling-Smee, and M. W. Feldman, "Evolutionary consequences of niche construction and their implications for ecology", Proc. Nat. Acad. Scien. USA 96: 10242-10247. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/96/18/10242.pdf

Frequency dependent evolution. A page on the strategies of the male side-blotched lizards http://bionet.ucsc.edu/people/barrylab/public_html/classes/animal_behavior/MALESS.HTM

QUANTUM COMPUTING

http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/Authors/Computing/Bennett-CH/TFPLoC.html The Thermodynamics of Computation - a Review

C. H. Bennett and R. Landauer, "The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation", Scientific American, 48-56 (1985).

C. H. Bennett, "The Thermodynamics of Computation - A Review", Int. J. Theoretical Physics 21(12):905-940 (1982).

C. H. Bennett, E. Bernstein and G. Brassard and U. Vazirani, "Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantum Computing, (1994)

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/collins5/research/index.html  Quantum Computation

http://www.informationphysics.com/course.html Multidisciplinary Topics in Information Physics

http://www.ieee-nns.org/pubs/tec/ec_editorial.html IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

 http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/collins5/research/qcliterature.html Quantum Information Literature

http://www.qubit.org/ Centre for Quantum Computation

ETHICS

http://www.iacap.org/ International Association for Computing and Philosophy

http://www.inseit.org/ International Society for Ethics and Information Technology

http://www.asis.org/ American Society for Information Science and Technology

http://www.cla.sc.edu/PHIL/spt/ Society for Philosophy and Technology

http://philcomp.org/ FINE: Foundations of Information Ethics, Ken Shiotani

http://csethics.uis.edu/inseit/ INSEIT - International Society for Ethics and Information Technology

INSEIT Newsletters

Vol. 1, No. 1

Vol. 2, No. 1

Vol. 2, No. 2

Vol. 2, No. 3

Vol. 2, No. 4

http://csethics.uis.edu/inseit/CEPE2003.htm CEPE 2003 Announcement

http://csethics.uis.edu/inseit/6AETC.htm 6th Ethics and Technology Conference, immediately following CEPE

http://icie.zkm.de/institutions International Centar for Information Ethics

http://www.iit.edu/departments/csep/PublicWWW/codes/computer.html

http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/ieg/ Oxford University; Computing Laboratory;
Information Ethics Group (IEG) Information Ethics Group (IEG)

http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/ceweb.htm A Short Webliography on Computer Ethics for Philosophers

http://ethics.acusd.edu/video/CEPE2000/Evil/Evil_files/frame.htmArtificial Evil and the Foundation of Computer Ethics L. Floridi

http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r586.html (Precautionary Principle)

http://www.intentionalbiology.org/ Intentional biology; Open source

http://www.indiana.edu/~iulcsecy/Lab092000.html Turing simulator recommended by BCSmith

http://www.brocku.ca/commstudies/courses/2F50/genprops1.html COMM 2F50, Communications Theory, Brock University

Knowledge as property

http://books.nap.edu/html/digital_dilemma/ The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age from the National Academy of Sciences

http://www.wipo.org/ World Intellectual Property Organization

http://www.loc.gov/copyright/search/ Copyright Search from the US Copyright Office

http://www.mindjack.com/feature/dmca.html "The Digital Millenium Copyright Act: Licensing the Commons" Bryan Alexander

http://www.yahoo.com/Government/Law/Intellectual_Property/ Yahoo! Intellectual Property links

http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright.html  "The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use"

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ Stanford's Copyrights and Fair Use Directory

http://groton.k12.ct.us/mts/pt2a.htm Copyright Resources on the Internet

http://www2.colgate.edu/diw/GNED327S97.html "Talent, Society and the State: Defining and Regulating Intellectual Property

http://www.ipmag.com/ Intellectual Property Magazine

 http://www.benedict.com/ The Copyright Website

 http://www.ipo.org/  IPO - Intellectual Property Owners

http://www.gse.ucla.edu/iclp/hp.html Cyberspace Law and Policy

http://www.fplc.edu/fplchome.htm Franklin Pierce Law Center Home Page

http://www.rpi.edu/~schmel/hotprop.html Hot Property: A Comprehensive Multimedia Law Site re Intellectual Property

http://colitz.com/site/wacky.htm Wacky Patents of the Month

TECHNOLOGY 

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v1_n1n2/pitt.html Techné: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v4n1/LENK.htmlADVANCES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY: NEW STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TECHNOLOGIES

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v4n1/MAINZER.htmlCOMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND EVOLUTION: FROM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO ARTIFICIAL LIFE

http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/tech_theory.html Theory of Technology

http://commhum.mccneb.edu/PHILOS/techessay.htm Essays on the Philosophy of Technology

http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/ Alan Sokal. Professor of Physics, New York University (SCIENCE WARS)

RELATED WEB RESOURCES

http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/itresources.html Information Theory Resources

http://www.wfu.edu/Academic-departments/Speech-Communication/infot/infop1.html Information Theory (Shannon)

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/ The Identity Theory of Mind; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ Principia Cybernetica Web

http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/ Molecular Information Theory and the Theory of Molecular Machines

http://www.sc.ehu.es/sfwpbiog/main.html Philosophy of Biology

http://www-lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/aaas1998/index.html Thermodynamics and Information Theory in Biology

http://www.swin.edu.au/maths/csm/phiofinfo/phiofinfo.htm Philosophy of Information, School of Mathematical Sciences

http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/elib/etext.html Electronic Books

http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/knowledg.html Sociology of Knowledge

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/paper.html A Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin/ Chaitins home page

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/CDMTCS/chaitin/inv.html An Invitation to Algorithmic Information Theory G. J. Chaitin

http://elib.cs.sfu.ca/Collections/CMPT/cs-journals/ The Directory of Computing Science Journals

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/AFOS/ReducReactions.html Reactions to Reductionism Redux

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/AFOS/Debate.html Is physics a universal science?

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/3621/PHILINKS.HTM Philosophy of Technology

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/text/descart/des-meth.htm Discourse on the Method Rene Descartes 1637

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/subjectstart?QA Online books: Math and Comp. Sci.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ Books On-Line

http://www.kb.nl/dutchess/index.html Search Engine

http://www.bib.mh.se/osd/nyfosd/omars00.htm Mitthögskolans bibliotek, Östersund

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/ The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm Guide to Philosophy on the Internet

http://philosophy.wisc.edu/forster/PhilSci/default.htm Philosophy of Science Association Wisconsin

http://www3.oup.co.uk/phisci/ The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

http://www.kb.nl/dutchess/08/00/info-3551.html Directory of On-Line Philosophy Papers

http://antioch-college.edu/~andrewc/pedagogy.html Course Materials in Philosophy

http://www.websyte.com/alan/metamul.htm Metaphysics

http://encyclozine.com/Science/Philosophy/ The Philosophy of Science

http://www.rhodes.edu/Philhtmls/philnet.html Search of Philosophy

http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/philos/#stars Philosophy Resources

http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d90-mst/geb/ Mårten's GEB Page

http://cns.pds.pvt.k12.ny.us/~jonathan/geb.html Gödel, Escher, Bach

http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/vr/index.html Galileo Museum Florenze

http://encyclozine.com/Science/ Worlds of Science

http://encyclozine.com/Science/Method/ What is Science?

http://www.nature.com/nature/ Nature

http://www.sciam.com/2000/0400issue/0400scicit1.html Scientific American: Fireballs of Free Quarks

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html Stephen Hawking's Universe

http://members.aol.com/McNelis/medsci_index.html The Medieval Science Page

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/catalog.html Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries

http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/quantum/genious.html New Scientist Quantum World

http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/charles_darwin/origin_of_species/ Darwin

http://www.physlink.com/ Physics and Astronomy on-line

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Kristen/Aristarchus.html#three Astronomy. Aristarchus

http://members.aol.com/gca7sky/planets.htm Our Solar System

http://www.cvc.org/science/kepler.htm Kepler laws

http://math.rice.edu/~joel/NonEuclid/NonEuclid.html Non-Euclidean Geometry

http://www.thymos.com/tat/machine.html Thinking About Thought

http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/toc.htm Logical Fallacies

http://www.intrepidsoftware.com/fallacy/syllog.htm Syllogistic Fallacies

http://www.informatik.htw-dresden.de/~logic/conclusions/rule3.html Logic

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/induc/ind-ded.html Induction and Deduction

http://classroomextension.com/primers/criticalthinking/ Critical Thinking

http://mrrc.bio.uci.edu/se10/causality.html Causality

http://www.xrefer.com/entry/551556 Causality

http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/IJCAI99/mainframes.html Reasoning with Cause and Effect

http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Research/Scientific_Method__The/

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jrlucas/implic.html The Implications of Gödel's Theorem

http://nl.ijs.si/~damjan/g-m-c.html Gödel

http://www.geometry.net/goedel.html K Gödel

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/search.html Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~brindell/soc-epistemology/Bibliographies/Feminist_Soc_Epis/phil-science.htm Bibliography: Feminist Epistemology

http://www.literature.org/authors/carroll-lewis/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/smithbc Situatedness/Embeddedness, Brian Cantwell Smith

Philosophy Resources

American Philosophical Association

Australasian Philosophy Network

 Blackwell Philosophy Resource Center

Canadian Philosophical Association

David Chalmers Home Page

Dieter Köhler's Philosophy Pages

Episteme

Hypatia

Individual's Philosophy Pages

The International Directory of On-Line Philosophy Papers

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Jobs For Philosophers

Mary Long's Research Link

Peter Suber's Philosophy Links

Peterson's Education Center

The Philosophers' Web Magazine

The Philosophy Documentation Center

Philosophy Departments Around The World

Philosophy in Cyberspace

Philosophy around the Web

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness

Other Online Philosophy and Science Resources

http://www.epistemelinks.com/ Episteme Links: Philosophy Resources on the Internet

http://noesis.evansville.edu/bin/index.cgi NOESIS: Philosophical Research Online

http://hippias.evansville.edu/ HIPPIAS: Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet

http://cd1.library.usyd.edu.au/stanford/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/Philosophy.html The Philosophy Server at Carnegie Mellon University

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ The Perseus Project

http://www.academiaexchange.net/welcome.html Academia Exchange Network

http://hkusuc.hku.hk/philodep/directory The International Directory of On-line Philosophy Papers

http://antioch-college.edu/~andrewc/pedagogy.html Course Materials in Philosophy

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/AFOS/ Association for the Foundations of Science, Language and Cognition

http://hippias.evansville.edu/ Hippias search engine

 http://noesis.evansville.edu/bin/index.cgi Noesis: Philosophical Research On-line

 http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm Guide to Philosophy on the Internet

http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/reason/critical/index.htm Critical Thinking on the Web

 http://iacap.org/library.htm The IACAP Virtual Library of Philosophy (VLOP)

 http://www.augustana.ab.ca/~janzb/science.htm Philosophy of Science Resources

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/PHILSCI/journal/contents/v70n1.html Philosophy of Science Journal

http://www.brint.com/kuhn.htm

Philosophy of Science and Information Technology: A Tribute to Thomas Kuhn

 http://www.herts.ac.uk/humanities/philosophy/intersci.html

History and Philosophy of Science and Mathematics on the Internet

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/PHILSCI/ Philosophy of Science online

http://www.french-ital.ucsb.edu/faculty/levy/classes/FR200B/cognition Cognitive Science

http://grimpeur.tamu.edu/~colin/Phil251/lect2-brentano.html Brentano & Intentionality

http://www.geocities.com/brent_silby/silby015.html Dennett's Reduction of Brentano's Intentionality

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/dennett.html Denett Intentional Stance

http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/bibs/2300/23000077.htm A Survey of Some Quantitative Approaches to the Notion of Information

http://www.sciencedirect.com/ Science Direct Digital Library

References

[1]   B. C. Smith, On the Origin of Objects, MIT, 1995.

[2]   L Floridi. Philosophy and computing: An introduction, Routledge, 1999, ISBN 0-415-18024-2.

[3]   S Lelas, Science and Modernity, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, ISBN 0-7923-6303-5.

[4]   Paul R. Thagard Computational Philosophy of Science, Bradford Books, 1993

[5]   T. W. Bynum and J. H. Moor, The Digital Phoenix, How Computers are Changing Philosophy, 1998

[6]   Peter Naur, Computing: A Human Activity, ACM Press, 1992

[7]   G.J. Chaitin, Algorithmic Information Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1987

[8]   G.J. Chaitin, Information, Randomness & Incompleteness, World Scientific, 1992

[9]   G.J. Chaitin, The Unknowable, Springer-Verlag, 1999.

[10] C. Robson, Real World ResearchBlackwell, 2000, ISBN 0-631-21305-8

[11] Carl Mitcham, Thinking Through Technology: The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy

[12] M Martin. R Schinzinger, Ethics In Engineering, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0070408491

[13] Kevin W. Bowyer (Editor), Ethics and Computing

[14]  W. Gratzer, The Undergrowth of Science – Delusion, Self-deception and Human Frailty, for The Times Literary Supplement [.pdf]

[15] J. Sihvola, Ancient Scepticism and the Sceptical Tradition, for the Journal of the History of Philosophy [.pdf]

BOOKS

1. Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction by Luciano Floridi 

2. The Bit and the Pendulum: From Quantum Computing to M Theory-The New Physics of Information by Tom Siegfried

3. The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy by The Editors of Lingua Franca (Editor), Lingua Franca (Editor)

4. Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan D. Sokal, Jean Bricmont

5. The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare by Henri Poincare, Stephen Jay Gould (Editor)

6. Questioning Technology by Andrew Feenberg

7. Thinking Through Technology: The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy by Carl Mitcham 

8. Scientific Integrity: An Introductory Text with Cases by Francis L. Macrina

9. http://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/d-Contents.html Excerpted from The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution by John Brockman (Simon & Schuster, 1995)

10. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson, Edward Osborne Wilson

11.  Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge by K. Knorr-Cetina, Karin Knorr Cetina

12. Unity of Knowledge: The Convergence of Natural and Human Science (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 935) by Antonio R. Damasio (Editor), Anne Harrington (Editor), Jerome Kagan (Editor)

13. The Philosophy of Science : A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) by Alexander Rosenberg

14. Ethics and Computing by Kevin W. Bowyer (Editor)

15. Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach by Karl R. Popper

16. The Society of Mind by Marvin L. Minsky

17. Godel's Proof by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman, Douglas R. Hofstadter

18. http://www.a-ten.com/alz/aturing.htmThe Alan Turing and Computer History /Philosophy Book Page

BACKGROUND LITERATURE:
PHILOSOPHY, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

1.  What is This Thing Called Science?, Chalmers, A. Hackett Publishing Co., 1990

2.  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn, T, Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1962

3.  An Introduction to The Philosophy of Science, Carnap, R., NY: Basic Books, 1994

4.  The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Popper, K.R., NY: Routledge, 1999

5.  Against Method, Feyerabend, P., London, U.K.: Verso, 2000
Introduktion till vetenskapsteorin, Lars-Göran Johansson, Thales, Stockholm 1999

6.  Vetenskapsteori och forskningsmetodik, Göran Wallen, Studentlitteratur, 1996

7.  The Unnatural Nature of Science, Lewis Wolpert, faber and faber, 199

8.  Pi in the Sky, John D. Barrow, Penguin Books, 1992

9.  Theory of Computing, Efrim Kinber, Carl Smith. Prentice Hall, 2001

10.         Introduction to Languages and the Theory of Computation, John C. Martin, McGraw-Hill, 1997

11.         Philosophie, Gesellschaft und Physik, Robert Hofstetter, Verlag Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Wien 1992

12.         Philosophy of Mathematics, Zvonimir Sikic, (in croatian), SK, Zgreb, 1995

13.         Fuzzy Thinking, The New Science of Fuzzy Logic, Bart Kosko, HarperCollins Publishers, London, 1994

14.         The First Three Minutes (A modern view of the origin of the universe), Steven Weinberg, Collins Publishing Group, London, 1983

15.         The Big Bang, The Creation and Evolution of the Universe, Joseph Silk, Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 1980.

16.         Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics, L. V. Tarasov, Mir Publishers, Moscow, 1980

17.         The Restless Universe, Max Born, Dover Publications, NY, 1951 (reprint)

18.         Gödel, Escher, Bach, ett Evigt Gyllene Band, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Brombergs, 1992

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AUTOPOIESIS LITERATURE

1. Autopoiesis and Cognition: the Realization of the Living by H. R. Maturana and F. J. Varela, Dordrecht:Reidel,1980

2. The tree of knowledge: the biological roots of human understanding by Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela, Rev. ed, Boston, Mass.:Shambala,1992

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5. Simulation of self-reproducing micelles using a lattice-gas automaton, P. V. Coveney, A. N. Emerton and B. M. Boghosian, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 10719-10724

6. Defining the transition to life: self-replicating bounded structues and chemical autopoiesis L. Luisi, in Thinking about Biology (E. Stein and F. J. Varela, eds.), Addison-Wesley, pp. 3-25 (1993)

7. Natural Tolerance in a Simple Immune Network, Vera Calenbuhr, Hugues Bersini, John Stewart, Francisco J. Varela, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 177, No. 3, Dec 1995, pp. 199-213

8. Development of an Idiotypic Network in Shape Space, Vincent Detours, Hugues Bersini, John Stewart, Francisco Varela, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 170, No. 4, Oct 1994, pp. 401-414

 GLOSSARY

Cognition

That which comes to be known, as through perception, reasoning, or intuition; knowledge.

Information

Information science

The science that is concerned with the gathering, manipulation, classification, storage, and retrieval of recorded knowledge. 

Information technology (IT)

The development, installation, and implementation of computer systems and applications. 

Information theory

The theory of the probability of transmission of messages with specified accuracy when the bits of information constituting the messages are subject, with certain probabilities, to transmission failure, distortion, and accidental additions.

Knowledge

1. The state or fact of knowing.

2. Familiarity, awareness, or understanding gained through experience or study.

3. The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned.

4. Learning; erudition: teachers of great knowledge.

5. Specific information about something.

6. Carnal knowledge. 

Synonyms: knowledge, information, learning, erudition, lore, scholarship These nouns refer to what is known, as through study or experience.

 Knowledge is the broadest: “Science is organized knowledge” (Herbert Spencer).

Information often implies a collection of facts and data: “A man's judgment cannot be better than the information on which he has based it” (Arthur Hays Sulzberger).

Learning usually refers to knowledge gained by schooling and study: “Learning … must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence” (Abigail Adams).

Erudition implies profound, often specialized knowledge: “Some have criticized his poetry as elitist, unnecessarily impervious to readers who do not share his erudition” (Elizabeth Kastor).

Lore is usually applied to knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote about a particular subject: Many American folktales concern the lore of frontier life.

Scholarship is the mastery of a particular area of learning reflected in a scholar's work: A good journal article shows ample evidence of the author's scholarship. 

Bioinformatics: Research, development, or application of computational tools and approaches for expanding the use of biological, medical, behavioral or health data, including those to acquire, store, organize, archive, analyze, or visualize such data.

Computational Biology: The development and application of data-analytical and theoretical methods, mathematical modeling and computational simulation techniques to the study of biological, behavioral, and social systems.

See also: The glossary of technical terms of the Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy for Computing and Information online at:
http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/blackwell/chapters/glossary.pdf

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