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Philosophy of computer science

Overview

The philosophy of computer science is concerned with the philosophical questions that arise within the study of computer science. There is still no common understanding of the content, aims, focus, or topics of the philosophy of computer science, despite some attempts to develop a philosophy of computer science like the philosophy of physics or the philosophy of mathematics. Due to the abstract nature of computer programs and the technological ambitions of computer science, many of the conceptual questions of the philosophy of computer science are also comparable to the philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and the philosophy of technology.

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• Carl Friedrich Gauss
• Communications of the ACM
• Theory of computation
• Time complexity
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Philosophy of technology
• Scott Aaronson
• ACM SIGACT

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