Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing Turing 100 [Hardcover]

This volume presents an historical and philosophical revisiting of the foundational character of Turings conceptual contributions and assesses the impact of the work of Alan Turing on the history and philosophy of science. Written by experts from a variety of disciplines, the book draws out the continuing significance of Turings work. The centennial of Turings birth in 2012 led to the highly celebrated Alan Turing Year, which stimulated a world-wide cooperative, interdisciplinary revisiting of his life and work. Turing is widely regarded as one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century: He is the father of artificial intelligence, resolver of Hilberts famous Entscheidungsproblem, and a code breaker who helped solve the Enigma code. His work revolutionized the very architecture of science by way of the results he obtained in logic, probability and recursion theory, morphogenesis, the foundations of cognitive psychology, mathematics, and cryptography. Many of Turings breakthroughs were stimulated by his deep reflections on fundamental philosophical issues. Hence it is fitting that there be a volume dedicated to the philosophical impact of his work. One important strand of Turings work is his analysis of the concept of computability, which has unquestionably come to play a central conceptual role in nearly every branch of knowledge and engineering.

Chapter 1. Introduction (Juliet Floyd).- Part I. Logic and Mathematics to Philosophy.- Chapter 2. Turing, the Mathematician (Daniele Mundici and Wilfried Sieg).- Chapter 3. Turing, G?del and the Bright Abyss (Juliette Kennedy).- Chapter 4. Justified True Belief: Plato, Gettier and Turing (Rohit Parikh and Adriana Renero).- Chapter 5. Turing on Common Sense: Cambridge Resonances (Juliet Floyd).- Part II. The Universal Machine: From Music to Morphogenesis.- Chapter 6. Universality is Ubiquitous (Martin Davis).- Chapter 7. The Early History of Vlƒ,