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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