Rapaport, William J. (2020). Philosophy of Computer Science. University of Buffalo.
Part 1
Transcript:
What is the philosophy of computer science? What is philosophy? What is science? What does “the philosophy of” even mean? From the name computer science, we know that it is a scientific study of something, but of what is computer science a scientific study of. Most people use computers day in and day out, and have a pretty good understanding of what a computer is, but how is this understanding different from a computer scientist’s understanding of computation. What is computation? What are algorithms? What is the difference between hardware and software? What is the relationship between engineering and programming? Computation theory is said to lie at the intersection of mathematics and philsophy. This book covers some of the topics mentioned.
