Philosophical explorations of the legacy of Alan Turing. Turing 100 (Q2410691)

Here are the proceedings of the conference ``Turing 100'', held on behalf of the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing (1912--1954), that took place on November 11--12, 2012. The meeting addressed itself to the philosophical aspects on the legacy of Turing's work. The speakers and participants paid attention to foundational motives and methods, but they also looked forward to applied philosophical outworkings of ideas brought up by Turing. As the editors of the book say (quotation): ``The purpose of our volume is to show how Turing's distinctive way of thinking promoted a panoply of ideas and outstanding questions crucial to the history and philosophy of science.'' Due to the rich contents of the book, we are only able to present a glance of it. The book consists of three parts: Part I) Logic and mathematics to philosophy (p. 39--149); the subjects are: Turing, the mathematician; Turing, Gödel and the ``Bright Abyss''; Justified true belief: Plato, Gettier and Turing; Turing on ``common sense'': Cambridge resonances; Part II) The Universal Machine: from music to morphogenesis (p. 153--262): Universality is ubiquitous; The early history of voice encryption; Turing and the history of computer music; Exploring the frontiers of computation: measurement based quantum computers and the mechanistic view of computation; Embodying computation of higher types. Part III) Human, machine and mind (p. 265--357): On computing machinery and intelligence; From Ockham to Turing -- and back again; Turing and the free will: a new take on an old debate; Turing on the integration of human and machine intelligence; Is there a Church-Turing thesis for social algorithms?. In particular, there is a bright and elucidating introduction by Juliet Floyd (38 pages); it gives a survey (among other things) of all the contributions in the book and on the aspects of the work of Turing and his followers. The reviewer has undergone this introduction as a ``must be and must know''. Summarizing: a very rich addition to possibly existing publications around the subjects.