June 3, 2004

Welcome Speeches
Prof. Roberto Schmid Rector of the University of Pavia
Prof. Gianni Francioni, Preside of the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Pavia
Prof. Mario Vegetti, Director of the Department of Philosophy, Pavia
Prof. Susan Stuart, Regional Director CAP Association
Prof. Andrea Belvedere, Rector of Collegio Ghislieri

Invited Lecture

Chair: Lorenzo Magnani

Integrating Ethics and Technology
Deborah Johnson

Internal and External Representations, Consciousness

Chair: Deborah Johnson

Embodied Consciousness: A View from General System Theory
Mariana Claudia Broens
Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez
Luis Felipe de Oliveira
Pim Haselager

Conceptual Spaces and Artificial Consciousness
Antonio Chella
Salvatore Gaglio

Ethics of Artificial Consciousness
Jan Burian

Abduction, Creative Reasoning, Scientific Discovery

Chair: Giuseppe Longo

Exemplar-Based Explanation
Rens Bod

Category Learning by Formation of Regions in Conceptual Spaces
Jaakko Särelä
Jan-Hendrik Schleimer
Mikko Berg
Timo Honkela

Logic, Computational Models and Tools

Chair: Alison Pease

Music to Our Ears: A Required Paradigm Shift for Computer Science
Dave Billinge
Tom Addis

The scheme of development of mathematics according to Lakatos and its application to Riemann’s scientific activity
Wieslaw Wójcik

Invited Lecture

Moral Mediators in a Technological World
Lorenzo Magnani

Logic, Computational Models and Tools

Chair: L. Magnani

Coping with Meaning Towards an Evolutively Plausible Computational Semantics
Asunción Álvarez

Can Vision Be Computational?
Rosaria Domenella
Alessio Plebe

“It’s a wonderful model”: An investigation into the notion of an “algorithmic explanation” and its computational limits
Chiara Tabet

A Modal Perpsepctive on Proof Dynamics
Patrick Allo

Cognitive Science, Epistemology, and Metaphysics

Chair: Selmer Bringsjord

Compositionality, the Language of Thought, and the Dynamic Map of Thought
Marius Dumitru

Philosophy of Information, a New Renaissance and the Discreet Charm of the Computational Paradigm
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic

Internal and External Representations, Consciousness

Chair: Roberto Feltrero

Authentic Robots and Inauthentic Daseins
A. Barua
M. Satpathy

Is Internet changing our language(s)?
Viorel Guliciuc [Talk Cancelled]

Invited Lecture

Chair: Mario Stefanelli

Modelling Lakatos’s Philosophy of Mathematics
Simon Colton and Alison Pease

Cognitive Science, Epistemology, and Metaphysics

Chair: Claudio Pizzi

An Argument Against Computationalism
Eduard Barbu [Talk Cancelled]

Ontology for Information Systems Artifacts as a Case Study
Massimiliano Carrara
Marzia Soavi

A Relational Stance in the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Colin T. Schmidt

Ethics, Technology, and Teaching and Learning

Chair: Eliano Pessa

On the Importance of Teaching Professional Ethics to Computer Science Students
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic

Intentionality and Moral Agency in Computers
Thomas M. Powers

Ifa Divination and Computer Science: A Case for African Tradition
T. Otselu Ogbhemhe
T. Imafidon Obaseki

Abduction, Creative Reasoning, Scientific Discovery

Chair: R. O. Elveton

Is a Closed-Loop Discovery System Feasible?
Alexander Riegler

Intelligent Alarm Correlation and Abductive Reasoning
Stefania Bandini
Alessandro Mosca
Matteo Palmonari

Rational Perception and Creative Processes in Cognitive Science
Arturo Carsetti

Invited Lecture

Chair: Arturo Carsetti

Computer Imitation and Mathematical Understanding
Giuseppe Longo


June 4, 2004

Invited Lecture

A Brief History of CAP
Robert Cavalier

Cognitive Science, Epistemology, and Metaphysics

Chair: Laura Pana

Unifying Approaches to the Unity of Consciousness
Susan Stuart

Rationalism versus Empiricism: A New Perspective
A.M. Stepak

From the Middle Age to Multimedia: How Ramon Llull’s Ars Magna can be Revived on the Computer
Thessa Lindof

Internal and External Representations, Consciousness

Chair: Thomas Powers

Revealing Colours
Ludovica Lumer
Luca De Carli
Davide Gadia
Daniele Marini

Towards Meaning Processes in Computers from Peircean Semiotics
Antônio Gomes
Ricardo Gudwinì
Charbel Niño El-Hani
João Queiroz

Mechanisms and Simulations
Gianluca Paronitti

Ethics, Technology, and Teaching and Learning

Chair: Tarja Knuuttila

The Role of Computers in Scientific Research: A Cognitive Approach
Roberto Feltrero

Behaviour, Mental Processes and Theories: Prisoners in the Room of our Beliefs (and our Computations)
Luciano Celi

Invited Lecture

Chair: Lorenzo Magnani

Philosophy of Science and the Ethics of AI and Robotics
Roberto Cordeschi
Guglielmo Tamburrini

Abduction, Creative Reasoning, Scientific Discovery

Chair: Susan Stuart

From Theoretical and Empirical Constraints to Synthetic Experiments on Symbol-based Communication
Angelo Loula
Ricardo Gudwin
João Queiroz

Problems with Simplicity and Analogy in the Theory of Explanatory Coherence
Marcello Guarini
Pierre Boulos

Can tacit knowledge fit into a computer model of scientific cognitive processes? The case of biotechnology
Andrea Pozzali

Cognitive Science, Epistemology, and Metaphysics

Chair: Roberto Cordeschi

Computable and Non-computable Procedures in Turing’s Theory of Mind
Jean Lassègue

Computer Science as a Subject Matter for Philosophy of Science
Peter Kühnlein

Ethics, Technology, and Teaching and Learning

Chair: Guglielmo Tamburrini

Metaphor Processing in Text Understanding on the Web: A Hermeneutic Approach
Stefan Trausan-Matu

Defining and Using Deductive Systems with Isabelle
F. Miguel Dionisio
M. Paula Gouveia
João Marcos

The Interactive Learning Environments Made on a System Dynamics Basis
Stanislava Mildeová

Invited Lecture

Chair: Luciano Floridi

Introducing Chogic: A Primitive Part of the MARMML Machine Reasoning System
Selmer Bringsjord
Kostas Arkoudas
Paul Bello
Marc Destefano
Bram van Heuveln
Yingrui Yang

Internal and External Representations, Consciousness

Selmer Bringsjord

What is Embodiment?
R. O. Elveton

The role of the internal and external representations in sustaining creative processes
Alberto Faro
Daniela Giordano

On the Representational Role of the Environment and on the Cognitive Nature of Manipulations
Alberto Gatti
Lorenzo Magnani

Cognitive Science, Epistemology, and Metaphysics

Chair: Luciano Floridi

Computing or Dynamics: Does it Matter For a Theory of Mind
Mathieu Magnaudet

The Frame Problem and The Treatment of Prediction
Mark Sprevak

Biorobotic experiments in the scientific understanding of adaptive behaviours: epistemological and methodological issues
Edoardo Datteri
Guglielmo Tamburrini

Logic, Computational Models and Tools

Chair: Jean Lassègue

Semiosis in cognitive systems: a neural approach to the problem of meaning
Eliano Pessa
Graziano Terenzi

Steps Towards a Computational Metaphysics
Branden Fitelson
Edward N. Zalta

Why Cognition Can’t Be Computation
William A. Cameron

Goodman’s Paradox Generalization
Evgenii Vityaev
Irina Khomicheva


June 5, 2004

Internal and External Representations, Consciousness

Chair: Luciano Floridi

Decostructing the External/Internal Divide: The Case of Self-organising Maps
Tarja Knuuttila
Timo Honkela

External and internal representations of road pictographic signs
Brigitte Cambon de Lavalette
Patrick Brézillon
Charles Tijus
Sébastien Poitrenaud
Christine Leproux
Alexandre Lacaste
Marie Bazire

Interactive diagrams for Charles Peirce’s theory of signs
Priscila Farias
João Queiroz [Talk Cancelled]

Special Panel on Abductive Reasoning

Chair: Thomas Addis

Projectual Abduction
Giovanni Tuzet

Abduction and its Distinctions
Lorenzo Magnani

Serendypian and Non-serendypian Abduction
Claudio Pizzi
Duccio Pianigiani

Cognitive Science, Epistemology, and Metaphysics

Chair: Eliano Pessa

The Ins and Outs of Mental Properties
Allard Tamminga

Evaluating Traditional, Hybrid, and Distance Approaches to Teaching Deductive Logic
Marvin Croy

Invited Lecture

Chair: Susan Stuart

Telepresence - Its Ethical and Epistemological Implications
Luciano Floridi

Cognitive Science, Epistemology, and Metaphysics

Chair: Robert Stepak

Connectionism Meets the Language of Thought
Paul Schweizer [Talk Cancelled]

The Dynamic Nature of Meaning
Claudia Arrighi
Roberta Ferrario

Abduction, Creative Reasoning, Scientific Discovery

Chair: Alexander Riegler

Why There Cannot Be a Complete Science of Enquiry
Brendan Larvor

Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy: The Case of Simon’s AI Project
Stefano Franchi

Ethics, Technology, and Teaching and Learning

Chair: Robert Cavalier

A Very Big Adventure: Using the internet to enable multi-institutional collaboration in teaching computer ethics
Joe Griffin

The Case against PowerPoint in the Classroom
Lawrence M. Hinman [Talk Cancelled]

Cognitive Science, Epistemology, and Metaphysics

Chair: Simon Colton

Applications of Anti-Realist Metaphysics to the Digital World
Matthew J. Dovey

Intellectual Techniques, Information Technologies and Cultural Models for the Knowledge Society
Laura Pana

Knowledge Representation Progress in the Brief Web History
Paolo Ceravolo
Ernesto Damiani

Logic, Computational Models and Tools

Chair: Roberto Cordeschi

Emerging Truth: A Metamathematical Model
Mark Weinstein

Computation and Observation: metaphysical implications of executions
Ken Shiotani

Representation and computation in the understanding of conditionals
Andrea Manfrinati
Paolo Cherubini
Pierdaniele Giaretta

A Contradiction in Frege’s Grundgesetze
Paola Cattabriga

Invited Lecture

Chair: Lorenzo Magnani

Instantiating Deliberative Democracy: Project PICOLA (Public Informed Citizens Online Assembly)
Robert Cavalier