Philosophical Issues of Computer Science

Historical and philosophical issues of computation

• The Universal Computer
• Computation

What is computer science? Foundational issues

• Philosophical and historical analysis of science, technology, and engineering

Thoughts, intelligence and machines

• Machine and Thought: The Turing Test
• The physical system hypothesis
• Chinese room argument
• The meta problem of consciousness

Final paper

How to choose a (good) topic and to write a (good) paper