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Re:The Philosophy of Computer Science by ctkrohn on Saturday November 12, 2011 @10:15AM (#3227942)
Along similar lines, Scott Aaronson recently wrote a long essay entitled "Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity." http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=735
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Re:The Philosophy of Computer Science by gwern on Saturday November 12, 2011 @11:22AM (#3228083)
That was a really good essay; I strongly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed, say, Hofstadter's GEB.
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Re:The Philosophy of Computer Science by michael_dorfman on Saturday November 12, 2011 @11:40AM (#3228126)
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an amazing resource. Anyone even casually interested in philosophy should check it out.
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Re:The Philosophy of Computer Science by geogra4 on Saturday November 12, 2011 @11:18AM (#3228076)
I read this earlier. It was fantastic
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