E-CAP 2003 Conference

Computing and Philosophy

University of Glasgow, Scotland

CAP@GU 2003

Thursday 27th March

	Senate rooms
4:30-6:15	Registration
6:15-6:30	Robert Cavalier (Carnegie Mellon University) The History of CAP
6:30-7:45	The Alan Turing Lecture in Computing and PhilosophyLuciano Floridi (Oxford University and Universita di Bari) Consciousness and Multi-agents Systems Chair: Susan Stuart
7:45-9:30	Reception and Welcome: Clerk of Senate, Professor Andrew Nash

Friday 28th March

	Gilmorehill Centre
8:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-10:00	The Thomas Reid Lecture in Computing and PhilosophyAaron Sloman (University of Birmingham) Architecture-based philosophy of mind? Chair: Chris Dobbyn
10:00	Coffee Break

Parallel sessions, 10:30-12:30

	Room 408
10:30-11:10	Patrick Grim, Trina Kokalis, Ali Alai-Tafti, Nicholas Kilb and Paul St. Denis (SUNY) Meaning as Use: Emergence of Communication in Arrays of Imitators and Neural Nets
11:10-11:50	Claude Lamontagne (University of Ottawa), J-P Delage and Michèle Bénard (University of Québec) Introductory NeuroPhilosophy through Spreadsheet Neural Network Simulation
11:50-12:30	G.W.A. Rowe, C.A. Reed and J. Katzav (University of Dundee) Araucaria: Marking Up Argument

	Room 409
10:30-11:10	Ken Herold (Hamilton College) An Information Continuum Conjecture
11:10-11:50	Marti Smith (Drexel University) The Social Life of Information Ethics Revisited: Using Online Retrieval Tools to Document the Shape and Character of Emerging Disciplines in Applied Ethics and Technology
11:50-12:30	Bernd Carsten Stahl (University College Dublin) The Impact of Market Metaphysics on Information Infrastructure Decisions

12:30

Lunch Break

1:30-2:30

Robert Horn (Stanford University)
Some of Philosophy’s Next Jobs, Almost All of Them Computerised
Chair: Susan Stuart

	Video-conference suite, Computing Services, room 317 (max 15)
2:40-3:20	Miranda Mowbray and Alexandre Bronstein (HP Laboratories Bristol) What kind of self-aware systems does the Grid need?

3:00-3:30

Coffee Break

Parallel sessions, 3:30-5:30

	Room 408
3:30-4:10	Marvin Croy (University of North Carolina) Comparing Traditional Instruction with Hybrid and Distance Education in the Teaching of Deductive Logic
4:10-4:50	Roy Elveton (Carlton College) Prolog and the Language of Thought: Logic as an introduction to Cognitive Science
4:50-5:30	Corin Howitt (University College Oxford) BlobLogic: A Computational System for Teaching Logic

	Room 409
3:30-4:10	Charles Ess (Drury University) Applied Ethics in the Bazaar: the AoIR document on Internet Research Ethics as an Example of praxis-based, ”Open Source” Ethics
4:10-4:50	Jacques Penders (KSN Research) Telephony Privacy
4:50-5:30	Alfredo Dinis (Braga University) Implications for moral philosophy of the computational model of language and knowledge acquisition

Saturday 29th March

	Room 408
9:00-10:00	Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) The Fragility of Evolution
10:00-11:00	Steve Torrance (Sussex University) Artificial Consciousness — A ”live” issue?
11:00	Coffee Break

Parallel sessions, 11:30-1:00

	Room 408
11:30-12:15	James Currall, Michael Moss and Susan Stuart (University of Glasgow) Digital Identity Matters
12:15-1:00	Lorenzo Magnini, Matteo Piazza and Riccardo Dossena (University of Pavia & Georgia Institute of Technology) The Logic of Discovery in the Cyberage

	Room 409
11:30-12:15	Emilia Guliciuc and Viorel Guliciuc (`Stefan cel Mare’ Universitz from Suceava, Romania) Creating an European philosophical databases system for research and training
12:15-1:00	Carlos Herrera Perez (Glasgow Caledonian University) A change in paradigm: from the rational agent to the embodied mind

1:00-2:00

Lunch Break

	Room 408
2:00-2:45	J. Francisco Àlvarez (UNED, Spain) Bounded Rationality, Agents and Human Beings: Computing and Rational Action
2:45-3:30	Archana Barua (Indian Institute of Technology) Do Computers have minds? or Husserl, Heidegger and the Intentionality Question

3:30-4:00

Coffee Break

	Room 408
4:00-5:00	Robert Cavalier (Carnegie Mellon University) From Cases to Conversations: A History of Interactive Media from Carnegie Mellon’s Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics

5:00.

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