caa a22 4500 445838205 CHVBK 20180317145336.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11023-011-9240-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11023-011-9240-4 Tedre Matti School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland aut Computing as a Science: A Survey of Competing Viewpoints [Elektronische Daten] [Matti Tedre] Since the birth of computing as an academic discipline, the disciplinary identity of computing has been debated fiercely. The most heated question has concerned the scientific status of computing. Some consider computing to be a natural science and some consider it to be an experimental science. Others argue that computing is bad science, whereas some say that computing is not a science at all. This survey article presents viewpoints for and against computing as a science. Those viewpoints are analyzed against basic positions in the philosophy of science. The article aims at giving the reader an overview, background, and a historical and theoretical frame of reference for understanding and interpreting some central questions in the debates about the disciplinary identity of computer science. The article argues that much of the discussion about the scientific nature of computing is misguided due to a deep conceptual uncertainty about science in general as well as computing in particular. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 History of computer science nationallicence Philosophy of computer science nationallicence Computing as a discipline nationallicence Computer science nationallicence Minds and Machines Springer Netherlands 21/3(2011-08-01), 361-387 0924-6495 21:3<361 2011 21 11023 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-011-9240-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-011-9240-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tedre Matti School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Minds and Machines Springer Netherlands 21/3(2011-08-01), 361-387 0924-6495 21:3<361 2011 21 11023 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer