From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Sun Feb 4 22:25:58 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l153Pwhm028859 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:25:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from front1.acsu.buffalo.edu (coldfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.89]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l153PqOE055474 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:25:52 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 18668 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2007 03:25:52 -0000 Received: from mailscan3.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.135) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 5 Feb 2007 03:25:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 4615 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2007 03:25:52 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front3.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 5 Feb 2007 03:25:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 21130 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2007 03:25:36 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 5 Feb 2007 03:25:36 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3134217 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:25:36 -0500 Delivered-To: cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 7327 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2007 03:25:36 -0000 Received: from mailscan1.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.133) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 5 Feb 2007 03:25:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 15656 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2007 03:25:35 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp4.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 5 Feb 2007 03:25:35 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l153PZd9028856 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:25:35 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l153PZDb028855 for cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:25:35 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200702050325.l153PZDb028855@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:25:35 -0500 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE? To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1336; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2523/Sun Feb 4 14:16:40 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 976 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ever since I created this course a few years ago, more and more universities are offering courses on the same topic, some inspired by mine :-) Here's one that I found out about recently. The lecture notes are on line. The "introduction" covers What Is Philosophy of Computer Science? What Is Computer Science? and What is Science?--all topics that should sound vaguely familiar. I've added a citation to each of the above webpages for our course, but for convenience I repeat them here: Tedre, Matti (2007), "The Philosophy of Computer Science (Winter-Spring 2007)" "Introduction to the Course" href="http://cs.joensuu.fi/~mmeri/teaching/2006/philcs/files/lecture_notes1.pdf"