Introducing Computing and Philosophy CAP Conferences to Asia

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IntroducingComputing and Philosophy (CAP)
Conferences to Asia

• Robert Cavalier
• Carnegie Mellon

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Precursors to CAP
Alan Turing Intelligent Machinery
Herb Simon Logical Theorist

• Today, printed matter dominates a large part
  of personal and mass communication and is central
  to regular school instructionThis spread of
  books and their regular adaptation in
  schoolsmark the first great revolution in
  educationThere 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)

Patrick Suppes VALID
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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)

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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.

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Early CAP Conferences
Cleveland State (1986)
Michigan State (1987)
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Early CAP Conferences
Dartmouth (1988)
Carnegie Mellon (1989)
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The Fish that Almost Ate CAP
Stanford University (1990)
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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)

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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)

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CAP Today (North American CAP)
CAP_at_OSU
CAP_at_CMU
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International CAP Conferences
University of Glasgow (March 27 - 29, 2003)
Australian National University (Oct. 31 -
November 2nd, 2003)
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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 Suppes 2003
Barwise Prize Winner Dan Dennett 2004 Barwise
Prize Winner Deborah Johnson
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IACAP Organization Chart
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