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The philosophical computer : exploratory essays in philosophical computer modeling / Patrick Grim, Gary Mar, and Paul St. Denis, with the Group for Logic and Formal Semantics. [electronic resource]

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Grim, Patrick.
Contributor:
Mar, Gary.
St. Denis, Paul.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Philosophy--Computer simulation.
Philosophy.
Logic--Computer simulation.
Logic.
Philosophy--Data processing.
Logic--Data processing.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 321 p. ) ill. ; 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1998.
Language Note:
English
Contents:
From the bivalent liar to dynamical semantics
The simple liar in infinite-valued logic
Some quasi-paradoxical sentences
The chaotic and logistic Liars
Chaotic dualists and strange attractors
Fractals in the semantics of paradox
The triplist and three-dimensional attractors
Philosophical and metalogical applications
Toward a simple model: some basic concepts
Self-reference and reputation: the simplest cases
Epistemic dynamics with multiple inputs
Tangled reference to reputation.
The example of tic-tac-toe
'Rug' enumeration images
Tautology fractals
The Sierpinski triangle: a paradoxical introduction
A Sierpinski tautology map
Value solids and multi-valued logics
Cellular automata in value space
The prisoner's dilemma
Classical strategies in iteration
Generosity in an imperfect world
Spatialization of the prisoner's dilemma
A note on some deeper strategies
Greater generosity in an imperfect spatial world.
Real life
Chaotic currents in real life
Real-valued prisoner's dilemmas
PAVLOV and other two-dimensional strategies
Cooperative chaos in infinite-valued logic
The problem of discrimination
Continuity in cooperation, the 'veil of ignorance', and forgiveness
Undecidability and the prisoner's dilemma
Two abstract machines
Computation and undecidability in competitive cellular automata
Computation and undecidability in the spatialized prisoner's dilemma.
Notes:
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-318) and index.
ISBN:
0-262-27433-7
0-585-03687-X

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