Also considering combining one of these majors with a more traditional CS or EECS degree.
Also considering combining one of these majors with a more traditional CS or EECS degree.
On the other hand, if your university has some sort of interdisciplinary program that combines philosophy with computer science, cognitive science, or some other STEM field, then go for it. Just make sure that it's a stable, well-funded, populous program (not something that only exists for the sake of placating a particular professor), and that your degree looks sciencey enough, e.g. it says B.Sc. instead of B.A.
Of course, YMMV depending on your university and the availability (or lack thereof) of certain faculty members during your stay.
A lot of said programmes exist for exactly that reason.
On the basis of that experience, I would recommend focusing on a traditional CS or EECS degree, and take philosophy on the side.
By taking a traditional degree you will provide yourself with a deep, broad foundation from which to evaluate various philosophical mutterings, and will be well-positioned to realize just how imbecilic most of them are.
There is a mathematician's joke that be successful in math you need a pencil, a paper, and a garbage can, while to be successful in philosophy you only need a pencil and paper (philosophers publish their mistakes, and sometimes build careers on them.)
Philosophy does have uses. It encourages a certain kind of rigour in thinking, but the content of the subject is mostly philosopher's imaginations, and three hundred years of science has taught us that the human imagination is almost completely useless for understanding reality. What we can or cannot imagine is utterly unrelated to what actually is.
AJ Ayer, for example, could not imagine the kind of empirical test of metaphysical propositions that Bell showed we could actually perform. A willful ignorance of the poverty of imagination as a tool for understanding reality was the basis for the entire Positivist program, which was, unsurprisingly, a failure.
So stick with the core subject and extend your reach to philosophy. You'll be far better served that way, and when you do philosophize it will have a far higher chance of being insightful and useful rather than obvious nonsense to anyone actually in the field you are philosophizing about.
Sometimes, reality is changed by the human imagination, e.g. by generating a new hypothesis to be tested by science.
Questions vs Answers: http://kiriakakis.net/comics/mused/a-day-at-the-park
Most of the problems we class as "metaphysics" probably aren't empirically verifiable, but if a few turn out to be, it isn't a big problem for the positivist program. Their objection to metaphysics isn't as principled as you make it out to be. It just falls out of verificationist semantics.
So if a physicist manages to empirically verify a few things that might have seemend metaphysical, then cool, turns out they were doing physics not metaphysics.
I'd say CS/EECS major, Philsophy and Math minors with focuses in AI for everything.
You have the option after that for doing AI in a master's or PHD program.
Not everyone wants to follow the classic SV career path.
I'd argue that the previous poster's advice applies to ANY career path that isn't academia.
Standard degrees are great for producing hot-swappable collefe hires. After that diverse experience and background is what makes a career.
Biological Computer Lab: http://bcl.ece.illinois.edu/
Ethics: http://web.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/foerster.html
If you're into game theory, consider CS and Statistics.
I'd probably pick CS, math or psychology as a good combination with philosophy. Theoretical physics is probably interesting as well but I don't know much about it. Quantum physics seems almost impossible without dipping into philosophy from my pop-QP point of view.
I'm mostly interested in science theory/epistemology/ontology though and know fairly little about other branches of philosophy. No formal education but I've talked to philosophers on campus and it's usually very interesting. I'd agree that a major benefit seems to be a sharpened thought process in general.