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What Is a Variable?
A stab at a definition, for outsiders, of what we in computing mean by the term "variable" raises more questions than it answers.
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FictionStein
Science fiction like Frankenstein nudges readers to confer humanity but nudges them away from moral fortitude.
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Tech User Responsibility
User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
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First-Class Philosophical Failure
Interrogation of "first-class object" as an analog to human life goes nowhere.
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Articulation of Decision Responsibility
Can we establish a locution for the results of a program that does not ascribe decision-making power?
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Examples of Phenomenology in Computing
The branch of philosophy known as phenomenology can broaden our understanding of what is really going on in the tasks we address with computing.
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Tech Ethics at Work
Ethics for Tech must address how professional issues play out in the workplace, in real life.
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Human Acts and Computer Apps
Our behaviors often seem to mimic the procedures that we induce in computers. What questions does that raise?
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It's Not the 'Why' Chromosome, It's the 'How'
Women do like the raw technical aspects of computer science.
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On the Ethics of Cyberwar
Keith Abney of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences group of California Polytechnic State University surveys the moral landscape of cyberwar.
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Deep Dictionary
The abstraction from big data on English words of distributed vector representations computing simple semantic aspects has drawn interest from the computing community...
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Operating Systems as Possible Worlds
Is a comparison between operating systems, which are analyzed by software engineers for conditional execution paths, and possible worlds, which are analyzed by...
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Fact Versus Frivolity in Facebook
Facebook, for the sake of its own business integrity and for the sake of the public, should give up any attempt to guarantee veracity in items posted by users.
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Fiction as Model Theory
Like model theory, fiction deploys a theory and an interpretation. An interpretation that makes the statements of the theory true demonstrates consistency, in...
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The Work and Inspiration of the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers
The Newsletter of the Committee on Computing and Philosophy of the American Philosophical Association offers a wide range of scholarly work in the philosophy of...
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The Work and Inspiration of the International Association For Computing and Philosophy
A prominent player in the philosophy of computer science includes the two disciplines in its title.12