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NA-CAP@CMU 2004: Conference Program

Wednesday, August 4th

5:00 — 6:00 Registration and Reception (Atrium of Baker Hall - between A51 and A53)

6:00 — 7:00 The Robot Soccer Project (A51)

Brett Browning (CMU Robotics Institute)

7:00 - 7:30

"Computational Philosophy as Actual Modeling: Abduction and Epistemic Mediators in Scientific Discovery"

Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia and Baruch College, CUNY)

7:30 - 8:30 Reception Continued (Atrium of Baker Hall - between A51 and A53)

Thursday, August 5th

8:30 — 9:00 Coffee and Registration (Atrium of Baker Hall - between A51 and A53)

9:00 — 10:00 Douglas Englebart Keynote Address (A51)

"Using Computer Technology to Teach Ethics"

Larry Hinman (The Values Institute, University of San Diego):

Introduced by Kari Coleman, 2004 NA-CAP Program Chair (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

10:00 — 10:45

"The Problems with Ethics Software: EthicsWorks, a Quasi-Self-Evaluation"

Robert Pielke (El Camino College)

10:45 — 11:00 Break

11:00 am — 12:00 Parallel Sessions

Logic Software (A51)

Student Track (A53)

11:00 am — 11:30

Ray Jennings (Simon Fraser University): "Simon Is My Other Name"

11:30 am — 12:00

Andy Shilliday (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) & Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute): "Slate: An Intelligent Assistant for Argument / Hypothesis Checking and Generation"

11:00 am — 11:30

Matthew Hockenberry (Carnegie Mellon University/MIT Media Lab): "Reforming the Ancient Citizen: The Synthesis of Distributed and Deliberative Democracies"

11:30 am — 12:00 pm

John Taylor (Carnegie Mellon): "The Computational Stance"

12:00 — 1:00 Lunch

1:00 — 1:45 Parallel Sessions

Ethics (A51)

Epistemology (A53)

"The Question at the Foundation of Information Ethics: Does Information Have Intrinsic Value?"

Kenneth Himma (University of Washington)

"A User-Friendly Probability Machine, with Applications to Bayesian Philosophy of Science"

Branden Fitelson (University of California, Berkeley)

1:45 — 2:00 Break

2:00 — 3:00 Parallel Sessions

Metaphilosophical Concerns (A51)

Intellectual Property I: Copyright Concerns (A53)

2:00 — 2:30 pm

Amy White (Bowling Green State University): Open Source Philosophy

2:30 — 3:00 pm

Terry Bynum (Southern Connecticut State University): Positive Computer Ethics

2:00 — 2:30 pm

Jon Dorbolo (Oregon State University): Twenty-First Century Plagiarism

2:30 — 3:00 pm

Denise Troll Covey (Carnegie Mellon University): The Impact of Current Copyright Law

3:00 — 3:15 Break

3:15 — 4:45 Panel Discussion (A51)

"Information Ethics and Philosophy of Information: Emerging Landscapes?"

Chair: Charles Ess (Drury University)

Panelists:

Terrell Ward Bynum (Southern Connecticut State University)

Luciano Floridi (Wolfson College, Oxford University)

Kay Mathiesen (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts)

Bernd Carsten Stahl (De Montfort University, United Kingdom)

Wallace Koehler (Valdosta State University)

May Thorseth (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

4:45 — 5:00 pm

Update on the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers

Marvin Croy (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Friday, August 6th

8:30 — 9:00 Breakfast (Atrium of Baker Hall - between A51 and A53)

9:00 — 10:00 Herbert A. Simon Keynote Address (A51)

"Computational Imaging for Philosophical Research"

Patrick Grim (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

Introduced by Marvin Croy, Chair of the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

10:00 am — 11:00 Parallel Sessions

Robotics (A51)

Immersion in Information Technology (A53)

10:00 am — 10:30

Ana Cuevas (University of Delaware): Robotics as an Engineering Science

10:30 am — 11:00

Susan Stuart (University of Glasgow): Unifying Approaches to the Unity of Consciousness

10:00 am — 10:30

Rita Lauria (North Carolina Ag and Tech State University) & Ann-Cecil Jeandrain (Catholic University of Louvain): Popular Perception about Autonomy in Immersive Commercial Environments

10:30 am — 11:00

Sheldon Richmond ("Ask The Philosopher," Canada): Technology Learning: An Application of Kuhn, Polyani and Popper

11:00 — 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:00 IACAP Organization Updates (A53)

12:00 — 1:00 Lunch

1:00 — 2:30 Panel Discussion (A53)

"How to do Philosophy Informationally"

Chair: Luciano Floridi (Wolfson College, Oxford University)

Panelists:

Gian Maria Greco (Information Ethics Research Group, University of Oxford)

Gianluca Paronitti (Information Ethics Research Group, University of Oxford)

Matteo Turilli (Information Ethics Research Group, University of Oxford)

2:30 — 2:45 Break

2:45 — 3:45 Intellectual Property II (A53)

(2:45 — 3:15)

"Computer Programs: Inventions without Inventors"

Robert Plotkin (Boston University School of Law)

(3:15 — 3:45)

"The Epistemology of Intellectual Property"

Don Fallis (University of Arizona)

3:45 — 4:00 Break

4:00 — 5:00 Panel Discussion (A53)

"The Dennett Project"

Chairs: Jon Dorbolo (Oregon State University) and Ron Barnette (Valdosta State University)

Panelists:

Terry Bynum (Southern Connecticut State University)

Robert Cavalier (Carnegie Mellon)

Steve Cohen (Tufts)

Marvin Croy (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

David Rosenthal (City University of New York)

Susan Stuart (University of Glasgow)

Bill Uzgalis (Oregon State University)

 5:00 Conference Closing Remarks (A53)
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