Philosophy of Computer Science: Online Resources

Errata

• p. xix, last line:
  "LaTex" should be:    LaTeX

  (or, even better: L^AT_EX)

• p. 6, Further Reading box, last line of paragraph 1:
  "17." should be:    17.)

• p. 84, Figure 4.1:
  Line T should have boldface lines only in those locations where line O has gaps (instead of line T being a continuous boldface line).

  (The idea is that the boldface portions represent the hypotheses and the non-boldface portions represent the observations.)

• p. 92, 2nd full paragraph, line 2:
  "(GOFAI) Haugeland, 1985);" should be:    (GOFAI); Haugeland, 1985),

  (with a semicolon before "Haugeland" and a comma after the date)

• p. 120, Figure 7.1, should have appeared on p. 119 as the fourth epigraph (after the one by Min).

• p. 138, §7.4.3.3:
  There are four "optional, additional instructions": halt, exit, abstraction, and recursion.

  Therefore, on line 8, "Abstraction" should be left-justified under "An "exit" instruction", and only its text beginning with "A structured programming language" and ending with the citation to Liskov and Zilles should be a displayed quotation.

• p. 160, §8.5.1:
  The opening passage, "In §§9, 10 … my italics", should be a displayed quotation.

• p. 193, Digression on Notation, paragraph 5, line 1:
  "∂" should be:    ə

• p. 216:
  The entire passage beginning with "But this has two consequences …" and ending with the citation to Searle 1990 should be a displayed quotation.

• p. 412, §18.3.3, paragraph 1, lines 3–4:
  The URL for the Internet-dog cartoon should be enclosed in parentheses.

• p. 419, §18.6, paragraph 0, line 4;
  p. 422, §18.7.2, paragraph 2, line 2:
  "natural-language-understanding" should be: natural-language-processing.
  • See the Further Readings for Chapter 18 for an explanation.

• p. 432, third Dennett quotation, line 3:
  "p. 100061" should be: p. 10061

• p. 489, bibliography entry for Simon 1962:
  "1996a" should be: 1996b

• p. 504, Index:
  The entry for "Post productions" should include a few more pages:
  Post productions 113, 140, 240, 276

• p. 505, Index:
  The single entry "Scott, Peter 342, 347, 402" should be two separate entries:
  Scott, Dana 342, 347
  Scott, Peter 402