CAP Keynote Addresses

Below is a list of the distinguished guests who have given keynote speeches at past CAP conferences.

Ronald C. Arkin: Ethics and Lethality in Autonomous Robots (NACAP@IU 2008
Mark Bedau: Computational Models of Evolutionary Creativity (NACAP@OSU 2005)
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)
Terry Bynum: Computer Ethics (CAP@CMU 1997); Ethics for the New Millennium: Cybernetics and the Copernican Revolution in Ethics (ECAP@Malardalen 2005)
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)
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)
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
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)
Lucas Introna: Maintaining the Reversibility of Foldings: Making the ethics (politics) of information technology visible (ECAP@NTNU 2006)
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)
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)
Dana Scott: Some Thoughts on Electronic Publishing (CAP@CMU 2000)
John Searle: Computers and Minds (Fifth Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference 1990)
Herbert Simon: The Computer as a Laboratory for Epistemology (Fourth Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference 1989); Human Reasoning and Formal Logic: Using Production Systems to Show Their Congruence (CAP@CMU 1995); Heuristic Methods to Achieve 'Natural Proofs' in a Computer Tutor for Logic (CAP@CMU 2000 with Hyunchul Kim)
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)
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)
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)
John Weckert: Trust in Cyberspace (CAP@CMU 2000)

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