Computing and Philosophy Selected Papers from IACAP 2014

This volume offers very selected papers from the 2014 conference of the “International Association for Computing and Philosophy” (IACAP) - a conference tradition of 28 years. The theme of the papers is the two-way relation between computing technologies a

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Vincent C. Müller Editor

Computing and Philosophy Selected Papers from IACAP 2014

Synthese Library Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science Volume 375

Editor-in-Chief Otávio Bueno, University of Miami, Department of Philosophy, USA Editors Berit Brogaard, University of Miami, USA Anjan Chakravartty, University of Notre Dame, USA Steven French, University of Leeds, UK Catarina Dutilh Novaes, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6607

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Editor Vincent C. Müller Anatolia College/ACT Thessaloniki, Greece http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4144-4957 http://www.sophia.de

Synthese Library ISBN 978-3-319-23290-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23291-1

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Editorial

IACAP 2014 The conferences on ‘Computing and Philosophy’ (CAP) have a long tradition of 28 years, and they are now organised annually by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP, http://www.iacap.org/), alternating between Europe and North America. The meeting took place in Thessaloniki, July 2–4, 2014, at the suggestion of the IACAP leadership, in particular of Mariarosaria Taddeo (president) and Marcello Guarini (executive director). The academic and organisational responsibility was given to this editor, who was supported by our team in Thessaloniki, especially Theo Gantinas. Details of the meeting, including a programme, videos and slides of the invited papers, some photos and a list of participants, are available on the site of the conference, which wi