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Introduction: Philosophy's Relevance in Computing and Information Science / Ruth Hagengruber and Uwe V. Riss
PART I: PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION
1. The Fourth Revolution in our Self-Understanding / Luciano Floridi
2. Information Transfer as a Metaphor / Jakob Krebs
3. With Aristotle towards a Differentiated Concept of Information? / Uwe Voigt
4. The Influence of Philosophy on the Understanding of Computing and Information / Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski
PART II: COMPLEXITY AND SYSTEM THEORY
5. The Emergence of Self-Conscious Systems: From Symbolic AI to Embodied Robotics / Klaus Mainzer
6. Artificial Intelligence as a New Metaphysical Project / Aziz F. Zambak
7. The Relevance of Philosophical Ontology to Information and Computer Science / Barry Smith
8. Ontology, its Origins and its Meaning in Information Science / Jens Kohne
9. Smart Questions: Steps towards an Ontology of Questions and Answers / Ludwig Jaskolla and Matthias Rugel
PART IV: KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
10. Sophisticated Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Requires Philosophy / Selmer Bringsjord, Micah Clark and Joshua Taylor
11. On Frames and Theory-Elements of Structuralism / Holger Andreas
12. Ontological Complexity and Human Culture / David J. Saab and Frederico Fonseca
13. Knowledge and Action between Abstraction and Concretion / Uwe V. Riss
14. Action-Directing Construction of Reality in Product Creation Using Social Software: Employing Philosophy to Solve Real-World Problems / Kai Holzweißig and Jens Krüger
15. An Action-Theory-Based Treatment of Temporal Individuals / Tillmann Pross
16. Four Rules for Classifying Social Entities / Ludger Jansen
PART VI: INFO-COMPUTATIONALISM
17. Info-Computationalism and Philosophical Aspects of Research in Information Sciences / Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
18. Pancomputationalism: Theory or Metaphor? / Vincent C. Müller
19. The Importance of the Sources of Professional Obligations / Francis C. Dane
