Informatics is at the forefront of philosophy

• informatics is at the forefront of [philosophy
  • Makoto Nagao (2019)
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While in the past, arguments in philosophy were made at the level of concepts, efforts began to be made to make arguments more precise by analytic philosophy that developed in the United States, and today, with the powerful tool for argumentation, the computer, philosophical arguments can be empirically refinement, which will have a profound impact on philosophy in the future. If this modest book can serve as a starting point for that, then there is nothing to say about it.

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relevance - Ideas without implementation are no longer needed. --- Yoichi Ochiai - Programming Philosopher

- Strong language like "it's the front line" or "we don't need it anymore" can spark a sterile debate. - I believe that a philosopher who does not utilize computers in this day and age is like a theologian who did not try to look through a telescope in Galileo's time. - [[People who don't look at the moon through a telescope.]] - I think [[Augmenting Human Intelligence with Computers]] is the path that civilization will take in the future, and I don't mind if some people don't think that way, but I don't pay much attention to them.

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