Tomas Petricek

I'm an assistant professor at Charles University and a partner at fsharpWorks. I work on making programming simpler and more open. To do so, I combine work on programming systems with history and philosophy of programming and computing.

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Philosophy of science books every computer scientist should read

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When I tell my fellow computer scientists or software developers that I'm interested in philosophy of science, they first look a bit confused, then we have a really interesting discussion about it and then they ask me for some interesting books they could read about it. So, I thought I should turn my answer into a…