Philosophy of Programming Reading List

This page lists all recommended books and resources on the subject of the Philosophy of Programming. For more information about the selection criteria, read the manifesto .

Books

Introduction to Philosophy of Programming

• The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy - Michael F. Patton and Kevin Cannon

Metaphysics

• Discours de métaphysique [Discourse on Metaphysics] - GW Leibniz
• Metaphysics - Aristotle

Epistemology

• Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology - Ayn Rand
• Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme I [On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems] - Kurt Gödel
• Meno - Plato

Logic

• Basic Logic - Richard L. Mendelsohn and Lewis M. Schwartz
• Traditional Logic, Book II, Advanced Formal Logic - Martin Cothran
• Introduction to Metamathematics - Stephen Cole Kleene
• Mathematical Logic - Stephen Cole Kleene
• Artistotle

Dialectic

• Ἐννεάδες [The Enneads] - Plotinus

Ethics

• Enchiridion - Epictetus
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

Simulacra

• Simulacres et simulation [Simulacra and Simulation] - Jean Baudrillard

Universal Computer

• The Annotated Turing - Charles Petzold
• The Universal Computer - Martin Davis
• The Advent of the Algorithm - David Berlinski

Emergence

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter

Futurism

• The Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil
• The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil

Film

• The Matrix
• Travelling Salesman
• Black Mirror

Blogs

• Charles Petzold
• Uncle Bob
• Joel Spolesky
• Ian Pearson
• Nikola Danaylov

Twitter

• Daily Stoic
• The Stoic Emperor

Courses

Introduction to Philosophy

• Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition
• Modern Intellectual Tradition

Short Videos

Epistemology

• Epistemology: How we gain knowledge (3:29)
• I Hope This Helps: Logical Positivism (6:07)

Long Videos

Objectivism

• Ayn Rand Interviewed by Phil Donahue on Objectivism (45:53)
• Rubin Report: Overview of Objectivism (1:01:33) May 6, 2016

Wiki-Style Articles

Introduction to Philosophy

• The Philosophy of Computer Science - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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