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Why computer science needs philosophy
Barry Smith
National Center for Ontological Research
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Shimon Edelman’s Riddle of Representation
two humans, a monkey, and a robot are looking at a piece of cheese;
what is common to the representational processes in their visual systems?
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Answer:
The cheese, of course
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the prehistory of science
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There is no problem of the unity of science
because all science can be stored inside one person’s head
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The era of empiricism
If two scientists disagree they resolve their disagreement by examining reality
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The problem of the unity of science is solved by reality itself
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the brief logical positivist interlude
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A science is a collection of propositions
(Bolzano: each science is identified with an ideal scientific textbook)
The problem of the unity of science is a problem of logic
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The new age of science
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A science is a collection of databases and associated algorithms
The problem of the unity of science is a problem of computer science
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To solve the problem of the unity of science, what we need is an
‘information model’
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caBIO Design Artifacts – UML Class Diagrams
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The new age of science
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The new age of science
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The new age of science