CAP Keynote Addresses

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

William Bricken: Virtual Reality (Seventh International Computing and Philsophy Conference 1992)
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)
Preston Covey: Of Balloons and Bicycles, Multimedia and Ethics (Eigth Annual Computing and Philosophy Conference 1993)
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)
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)
Jerry Fodor: Against Connectionism (Third Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference 1988)
Clark Glymour: From Philosophy to Artificial Intelligence (Eigth Annual Computing and Philosophy Conference 1993)
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)

John Kemeny: Computers Revolutionize the Classroom (Third Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference 1988)
James H. Moor: A Philosophical Defense of Artificial Intelligence (CAP@CMU 1997)
John Pollock: Interfacing Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence (CAP@CMU 1995)
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)
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)
Scott Stevens: Synthetic Interviews (CAP@CMU 1996)
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)
John Weckert: Trust in Cyberspace (CAP@CMU 2000)

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