An Introduction to the Philosophy of Computer Science
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§1.1: What This Book Is About:
§1.2: What This Book Is Not About:
" 'I daily listen to your words with more attention than one would
believe, and perhaps I shall not be thought impertinent in wishing to be
heard by you,' wrote the Italian poet Petrarch in 1348. His addresee was
the Roman philosopher Seneca, who had died nearly thirteen centuries before."
(Catherine Nicholson,
"Livelier Than the Living", New York Review of
Books 71(11) (20 June):6,8,10,12; quotations from p.6)
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, as quoted on p. 34 of:
Wilkinson, Alec (2023), "Illuminating the Brain's 'Utter Darkness'",
New York Review of Books 70(2)
(9 February): pp. 32,34–35.
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