IntroducingComputing and Philosophy (CAP)

Conferences to Asia

Robert Cavalier

Carnegie Mellon

Precursors to CAP

Patrick Suppes“VALID”

“Today, printed matter dominates a large part of personal and mass communication and is central to regular school instruction…This spread of books and their regular adaptation in schools…mark the first great revolution in education…There is every reason to believe that a comparable revolution has already begun in the use of computer-based devices as instructional aids.” (Suppes, Jerman, & Brian, 1968)

Alan TuringIntelligent Machinery

Herb Simon“Logical Theorist”

Precursors to CAP “The development of electronic

computers in recent years has given a new twist to questions about the relations between ‘mental’ and ‘mechanical’ events, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of discussion…. No article deals exclusively with the philosophy of mind, in the traditional sense, and no article will help with technical problems in electrical engineering; the aim here has been rather to emphasize the ‘and’ in ‘Minds and Machines’” (Alan Ross Anderson, 1964)

Proto-CAP AAPT 5th National Conference/Workshop (1984)

Workshop on “computer assisted/managed instruction in philosophy” (Nelson Pole, Chair)

APA “Western” Division Panel Discussion on “CAI Logic Courses” (Spring, 1985)

The Newsletter of the Inter-University Consortium for Educational Computing (September, 1985) summarized the following:

• Marvin Croy: An Indexed, Comparative Survey of Logic CAI projects, Past and Present, in the United States (April, 1985)

• Preston Covey: “Computer-Assisted Instruction” in Computer-Assisted Instruction in the Humanities

“CAI Conference/Workshop in Philosophy” (Cleveland State University, March 1986)

Sponsored by the American Association of Philosophy Teachers Emphasis: (1) the development (both technical and applied) of Computer-Assisted

Instruction in Logic and (2) the incorporation of a “computer approach” to the teaching of Logic.

Early CAP Conferences

Cleveland State (1986)

Michigan State (1987)

Early CAP Conferences

Dartmouth (1988)

Carnegie Mellon (1989)

The Fish that Almost Ate CAP

Stanford University (1990)

CAP Presentations in Publications

“The editor [Leslie Burkholder] argues that it is no exaggeration to speak of a ‘computational turn’ to match the much celebrated (and maligned) ‘linguistic turn’ of a previous generation” (1992)

PAC and CAP Presentations in Publications

“…computing is changing the professional activities of philosophers, including how they teach, how they cooperate with each other, and how they teach their courses. Most importantly, computing is changing the way philosophers understand foundational concepts in philosophy, such as mind, consciousness, experience, reasoning, knowledge, truth, ethics, and creativity” (Bynum and Moor, 1998)

CAP Today (North American CAP)

CAP@CMU CAP@OSU

International CAP Conferences

University of Glasgow (March 27 - 29, 2003)

Australian National University(Oct. 31 - November 2nd, 2003)

www.iacap.org

CAP Awards, The Goldberg Award, Special Keynote Addresses, and the

APA Barwise Prize for life-long contributions to Computing and

Philosophy

2002 Barwise Prize Winner: Patrick Suppes2003 Barwise Prize Winner: Dan Dennett2004 Barwise Prize Winner: Deborah Johnson

IACAP Organization Chart

Executive Secretary

Vice PresidentPresident

Steering Committee (CAP Conference Directors, etc.)

CAP

Europe

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North America

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Latin America

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Asia-Pacific

Program Committees*/subcommittees

*experience as presenters in CAP

Program Chairs and Site Organizers*

Steering Committee

Director