Academic Catalog

COGS579 PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Course Code: 9020579
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Cognitive Sciences
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Philosophical questions in the practice of computer science in relation to Al and philosophy: what is a computer, what kind of science is computer science, what are the terms of computationalist ezplanations, are digital and analog computers different kind, does nature compute? compuers and exploration, ethics of computers with or without human in the loop, meta-activity of programming, paradigms of thinking in computer science.