B. Jack Copeland (born 1950) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Copeland received a BPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford in philosophy, where he undertook research on modal and non-classical logic.
He is the Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing,[1] an extensive online archive on the computing pioneer Alan Turing. He has also written and edited books on Turing.
Jack Copeland has held visiting professorships at the University of Sydney, Australia, (1997, 2002), the University of Aarhus, Denmark (1999), the University of Melbourne, Australia (2002, 2003), and the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom (1997–2005). In 2000, he was a Senior Fellow in the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology[2] at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.
Copeland is President of the US Society for Machines and Mentality[3] and a member of the UK Bletchley Park Trust Heritage Advisory Panel. He is the founding editor of The Rutherford Journal, established in 2005.
Books
- Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction (Blackwell, 1993, 2nd edition due) ISBN 0-631-18385-X [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK]
- Logic and Reality Essays on the Legacy of Arthur Prior (Oxford University Press, 1996) ISBN 0-19-824060-0 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK]
- The Essential Turing (Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN 0-19-825080-0 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK]
- Alan Turing’s Automatic Computing Engine: The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to Build the Modern Computer (Oxford University Press, 2005) ISBN 0-19-856593-3 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK]
- Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers (Oxford University Press, 2006) ISBN 0-19-284055-X [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK]
References
External links
- Home page
- AlanTuring.net
- B. Jack Copeland bibliography in the DBLP database
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