Contingent Computation - Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics

Informationen zum Autor M. Beatrice Fazi is Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex. Her primary areas of expertise are the philosophy of computation, the philosophy of technology and the emerging field of media philosophy. Klappentext Contingent Computation offers a new theoretical perspective through which we can engage philosophically with computing. The book proves that aesthetics is a viable mode of investigating contemporary computational systems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction / Part 1 Aesthetics / 1. Continuity versus Discreteness / 2. Computation / 3. Processes / Part 2 Abstraction / 4. Computational Idealism / 5. Axiomatics / 6. Limits and Potential / Part 3 Experience / 7. Computational Empiricism / 8. Factuality / 9. Actuality / Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: M. Beatrice Fazi
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781538147061
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4706-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Media Philosophy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; machine learning, COMPUTERS / Machine Theory, Mathematical theory of computation, COMPUTERS / Data Science / Machine Learning