In honor of the 60th Anniversary of the publication of Alan Turing’s groundbreaking article, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” we are centering the 2010 NACAP Conference on simulations and their philosophical implications. Since the inception of the computer, simulations have become ubiquitous tools of the trade in a wide range of disciplines from astrophysics to sociology, machine learning to logic. When experiments aren’t possible for a variety of reasons (e.g., financial, ethical, lack of a subject pool), researchers have increasingly turned to simulations to test theories, comb through data, make predictions or otherwise take knowledge in new directions. This conference will explore the philosophical implications of this increasing reliance on simulation as it applies to the broader scope of topics studied by our association.
Conference highlights include keynote lectures from Hugh Loebner (Crown Industries), Patrick Grim
(Stony Brook University), and Teddy Seidenfeld (Carnegie Mellon University). The IACAP is also pleased to acknowledge the recipients of this year's
Covey Award and Goldberg Graduate Award. The 2010 Covey Award for Excellence in the Area of Research in Computing and Philosophy and the Brian Michael Goldberg Graduate Award will be presented.
Detailed Program now available.
The International Association for Computing and Philosophy would like to acknowledge the generosity of the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University,
and the support of the university generally, not only for their
financial contributions, but more importantly for their cooperation in
helping with the arrangements, their intellectual openness to the study
of computing and philosophy, and the willingness of their graduate
students and faculty to participate in our conference.
Program Director: Mara
Harrell, Carnegie Mellon University
Conference
Host: Mara
Harrell, Carnegie Mellon University
NA-CAP
Director: Selmer
Bringsjord, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
NA-CAP
Steering Committee:
Don Berkich, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
David
Stern, University of Iowa
Mara
Harrell, Carnegie Mellon University
IACAP
President: Luciano
Floridi, University
of Hertfordshire & University of Oxford
IACAP Executive Director: Tony Beavers, University Of Evansville
This
conference is one of several regional
conferences associated with the
International
Association for Computing and Philosophy.
To learn more about the IACAP, including its
other conferences and membership details,
visit the organization's website at
http://ia-cap.org.
