Introducing Computing and Philosophy (CAP) Conferences to Asia

1. IntroducingComputing and Philosophy (CAP) Conferences to Asia Robert Cavalier Carnegie Mellon

3. “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) Precursors to CAP Alan Turing Intelligent Machinery Herb Simon “Logical Theorist” Patrick Suppes “VALID”

4. “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) Precursors to CAP

5. 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.

6. Early CAP Conferences Cleveland State (1986) Michigan State (1987)

7. Early CAP Conferences Dartmouth (1988) Carnegie Mellon (1989)

8. The Fish that Almost Ate CAP Stanford University (1990)

9. “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) CAP Presentations in Publications

10. “…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) PAC and CAP Presentations in Publications

11. CAP Today (North American CAP) CAP@OSU CAP@CMU

12. International CAP Conferences University of Glasgow (March 27 - 29, 2003) Australian National University (Oct. 31 - November 2nd, 2003)

13. 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

14. President Vice President Steering Committee (CAP Conference Directors, etc.) Executive Secretary IACAP Organization Chart CAP North America CAP Europe CAP Latin America CAP Asia-Pacific Program Chairs and Site Organizers* Program Committees*/ subcommittees Steering Committee Director *experience as presenters in CAP