Philosophy

Following Peter Wegner, Amnon H. Eden proposes that there are three paradigms at work in various areas of computer science:^[17]

• a "rationalist paradigm", which treats computer science as branch of mathematics, which is prevalent in theoretical computer science, and mainly employs deductive reasoning,
• a "technocratic paradigm", readily identifiable with engineering approaches, most prominent in software engineering, and
• a "scientific paradigm", which approaches computer-related artifacts from the empirical perspective of natural sciences, and identifiable in some branches of artificial intelligence (the study of artificial life for instance).