A school that treats CS as a branch of philosophy

--- Forwarded message follows --- From: A.Sloman(a)cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman) Subject: Re: Looking for a school that treats CS as a branch of philosophy Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 12:24:12 GMT Readers interested in studying in the UK may be interested to know that at the University of Birmingham several members of the School of Computer Science have PhDs in philosophy, and quite a lot of our research and teaching is philosophical (e.g. on the nature of representations, the architecture of a mind, the nature of motivation and emotions, etc.). We offer MSc degrees, PhD degrees and undergraduate degrees, all including opportunities for philosophical investigation. 1. We offer, in conjunction with the Schools of Psychology, English and Philosophy, a one year MSc degree in Cognitive Science which attempts to integrate Philosophy, Computing, AI, Psychology and Linguistics. Enquiries to Donald Peterson: Email: D.M.Peterson(a)cs.bham.ac.uk 2. We also offer an AI stream within a one year "conversion MSc" degree for people whose first degree was not computer science. (The other three streams are "Information Technology" for people without any previous computing experience, "Software engineering" and "IT and Electronic engineering" (I may have that last title wrong - typing it in from memory) taught in conjuction with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.) Enquiries concerning conversion MSc degrees to Sue Laflin Email: S.Laflin(a)cs.bham.ac.uk 3. We offer PhD research degrees in a variety of topics including philosophical foundations of computing and AI, cognitive science, software engineering, mathematical computer science, very large logic-based databases, HCI, etc. Enquiries to Peter Hancox: Email: P.J.Hancox(a)cs.bham.ac.uk 4. Finally we have started a variety of undergraduate degrees in AI in combination with several other disciplines, and these will all include an element of philosophy (you can't do AI properly without including philosophy). In october 1993 we started AI and Computer Science, and Psychology and AI degrees. On october 1994 Mathematics and AI will be added. Other combinations will follow including Education and AI. Philosophy can be combined with AI within the Arts faculty combined honours or general honours programmes. Enquiries regarding undergraduate degrees in AI to Jim Yandle: Email J.R.Yandle(a)cs.bham.ac.uk Aaron --- -- Aaron Sloman, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, England EMAIL A.Sloman(a)cs.bham.ac.uk OR A.Sloman(a)bham.ac.uk Phone: +44-(0)21-414-3711 Fax: +44-(0)21-414-4281