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 |
| Course Coordinator: |
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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.
