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Philosophical problems of Informatics

Class at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
NAIL102

Syllabus

Possible themes:

Problems of current Informatics and their philosophical aspects

Computation models

Linguistics

Philosophy of programming languages

Knowledge bases and databases

Web, semantic web and web explorers

Neuron networks and evolutionary algorithms

Artificial intelligence

History of mathematics and informatics

Ethics in informatics

Examples of previous themes:

What was beyond mirror?

Language of mathematics

Singularity

Why is social web resistant to elegant mathematics

Philosophy of mind (from view of analytic philosophy)

Kurt Goedel...!

How to describe the natural language formally?

Language just a code?

Infinity in Informatics and Philosophy

Hypothetical propositions

Annotation

The seminar consists of presentations of specialists in informatics, mathematics and in relevant philosophical problems with the goal to show students new perspectives and motivate discussions.