Past IACAP Keynote speakers
This is a list of some of the distinguished keynote speakers from previous CAP conferences:
- Ronald C. Arkin
Ethics and Lethality in Autonomous Robots (NACAP@IU 2008) - Katja Franko Aas
(In)secure identities: ICT’s, trust and ‘bio-political tattoos’ (IACAP@Aarhus 2011) - Mark Bedau
Computational Models of Evolutionary Creativity (NACAP@OSU 2005) - Tony Beavers
Is Ethics Computable, Or What Other than Can Does Ought Imply? (IACAP@Aarhus 2011) - William Bechtel
Networks at Multiple Levels: Understanding Circadian Phenomena (NA-CAP@IU 2009) - Giovanni Boniolo
Empirical Databases, Networks and their Logics (ECAP@Twente 2007) - William Bricken and Meredith Bricken
Virtual Reality (Seventh International Computing and Philsophy Conference 1992) - Selmer Bringsjord
The Impact of Computing on Epistemology: Knowing Godel’s Mind through Computation (CAP 1998 at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy) - Cameron Buckner
Computational Methods for the 21st-Century Philosopher: Recent Advances and Challenges in Cognitive Science and Metaphilosophy (IACAP@Aarhus 2011) - Elizabeth A. Buchanan
Research Ethics 2.0: The History and Discourse of Internet Research Ethics (AP-CAP@Bangalore 2008) - Terry Ward Bynum
Computer Ethics (CAP@CMU 1997)
Ethics for the New Millennium: Cybernetics and the Copernican Revolution in Ethics (ECAP@Malardalen 2005)
Information and Deep Metaphysics (IACAP@Aarhus 2011) - Rafael Capurro
Intercultural Information Ethics: Foundations and Applications (APCAP@Chulalongkorn 2007) - Robert Cavalier
From Cases to Conversations: A History of Interactive Media from Carnegie Mellon’s Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics
E-Democracy and the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (APCAP@Chulalongkorn 2005)
The Craft of Computing and Philosophy (NA-CAP@CMU 2010) - Gregory Chaitin
Alan Turing Lecture on Computing and Philosophy (ECAP@Malardalen 2005) - Paul Churchland
Chimerical Colors: Some Phenomenological Predictions from Computational Neuroscience (NACAP@OSU 2005) - Preston Covey
Of Balloons and Bicycles, Multimedia and Ethics (Eigth Annual Computing and Philosophy Conference 1993) - Cecile Crutzen
Ambient Intelligence (ECAP@Montpellier 2008) - Eric Dietrich
After the Humans are Gone (NACAP@RPI 2006) - Randy Dipert
The Impact of Computing on the Teaching of Logic (CAP 1998 at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy) - Frederick I. Dretske
Extrinsic Properties and Artificial Intelligence (Sixth International Computers and Philosophy Conference 1991) - Douglas Engelbart
Facilitated Evolution (NACAP@OSU 2002) - Charles Ess
Information Ethics: Local Approaches, Global Potentials? (APCAP@Chulalongkorn 2005) - James Fetzer
Thinking and Computing: Computers as Special Kinds of Signs (CAP@CMU 1996) - Luciano Floridi
Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information, The Herbert A. Simon Lectures in Computing and Philosophy (CAP@CMU 2001)
Informational Realism (APCAP@ANU 2003)
A Distributed Model of Truth for Semantic Information (NA-CAP@IU 2009) - Jerry Fodor
Against Connectionism (Third Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference 1988) - John Frohnmayer
Computing and the PATRIOT Act (NACAP@OSU 2005) - Clark Glymour
From Philosophy to Artificial Intelligence (Eigth Annual Computing and Philosophy Conference 1993) - Patrick Grim
Computational Imaging for Philosophical Research (NACAP@CMU 2004) - Rodric Guigò
Computing Life: the Convergence of Biology and Computation (ECAP@Barcelona 2009) - Michael S. Hart
Project Gutenberg: Giving Away One Trillion Electronic Books (Sixth International Computers and Philosophy Conference 1991) - John Haugeland
Representational Genera (Fifth Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference 1989)
Authentic Intentionality (CAP@CMU 1999) - Patrick Hayes
The Architecture of Intelligence (Fifth Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference 1990)
Computing the Hard Problem: A Sketch of an AI Account of Consciousness (CAP@CMU 2000) - Vincent Hendricks
Formal epistemology and limiting skepticism (ECAP@NTNU 2006) - Lawrence Hinman
Using Computer Technology to Teach Ethics (NACAP@CMU 2004) - Jeroen van den Hoven
The Ethics of Wideware Engineering (ECAP@Twente 2007)
Managing our Identities: The Ethics of Identity Management (APCAP@Chulalongkorn 2005) - Paul Humphreys
Templates, Complexities and Automated Science (AP-CAP@Bangalore 2008) - Lucas Introna
Maintaining the Reversibility of Foldings: Making the ethics (politics) of information technology visible (ECAP@NTNU 2006) - Hiroshi Ishiguro
Developing androids and understanding humans (AP-CAP@Tokyo 2009) - Frank Jackson
Why can’t a computer be more like a person? (APCAP@ANU 2003) - John Kemeny
Computers Revolutionize the Classroom (Third Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference 1988) - Neil Levy
Cyborgs: The Future (APCAP@ANU 2003) - Hugh Loebner
The Turing Test (NA-CAP@CMU 2010) - Klaus Mainzer
Challenges of Complexity in Cognitive and Computational Systems (ECAP@Barcelona 2009) - James H. Moor
A Philosophical Defense of Artificial Intelligence (CAP@CMU 1997) - John Pollock
Interfacing Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence (CAP@CMU 1995) - William J. Rapaport
Philosophy of Cognitive Science: What It Is, What I Teach, and How I Teach It (NACAP@RPI 2006) - Victor Rodriguez
Computation and the Physical World: Some Philosophical Views (LA-CAP@UNAM 2009) - Dana Scott
Some Thoughts on Electronic Publishing (CAP@CMU 2000) - John Searle
Computers and Minds (Fifth Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference 1990) - Teddy Seidenfeld
How I Learned to Reduce My Incoherence (NA-CAP@CMU 2010) - Shinsuke Shimojo
TMS applied to the visual cortex – approaching the Brain-Mind Problem (AP-CAP@Tokyo 2009) - Herbert Simon
The Computer as a Laboratory for Epistemology (Fourth Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference 1989)
Heuristic Methods to Achieve ‘Natural Proofs’ in a Computer Tutor for Logic (CAP@CMU 2000 with Hyunchul Kim)
Human Reasoning and Formal Logic: Using Production Systems to Show Their Congruence (CAP@CMU 1995) - Aaron Sloman
Architecture-based Philosophy of Mind (ECAP@Glasgow 2003) - Barry Smith
Biological Ontologies (ECAP@Malardalen 2005) - Brian Cantwell Smith
Computers and Minds (Fifth Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference 1990) - Elliot Soloway
John Dewey Meets the Barney Generation: The Role of Computational Media in Coming to Know (CAP@CMU 1996) - Francesc Subirada
Supercomputing, virtual reality and some questions (ECAP@Barcelona 2009) - Olaf Sporns
Network Neuroscience – A New Perspective on Brain Function (NA-CAP@IU 2009) - Richard Stallman
The Free Software Definition (NACAP@Loyola U Chicago 2007) - Scott Stevens
Synthetic Interviews (CAP@CMU 1996) - Peter Suber
Open Access Overview (NACAP@Loyola U Chicago 2007) - John Sullins
The Next Steps in RoboEthics (IACAP@Aarhus 2011) - Patrick Suppes
A Retrospective on Instructional Computing (The Herbert A. Simon Lecture in Computing and Philosophy, CAP@CMU 2002) - David Rumelhart
The Architecture of Intelligence (Fifth Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference 1990) - Paul Thagard
Can Computers Understand Causality? (NACAP@IU 2008) - Raymond Turner
The Philosophy of Theoretical Computer Science (ECAP@NTNU 2006)
Syntax and Semantics (ECAP@Barcelona 2009) - Kevin Warwick
What it is like to be a robot? (ECAP@Barcelona 2009) - John Weckert
Trust in Cyberspace (CAP@CMU 2000)
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