August 8, 1996
How Computers Are Changing Philosophy
Terry Bynum, Southern Connecticut State University
Jim Moor, Dartmouth College
Chair: Robert Cavalier, Carnegie Mellon University
August 9, 1996
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Thinking and Computing: Computers as Special Kinds of Signs
Jim Fetzer
University of Minnesota
Introduced by Martin Fricke
Explaining the Phi Phenomenon without Dennett’s Exotica: All You Need is Good Ol’ Computation
Selmer Bringsjord & Ron Noel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
A Universal Translation Algorithm for Context-Free Phrase Structure Languages
Joseph F. Hanna, Michigan State University
PROTO THINKER
Mind-Models As Research Tools in Philosophy
John A. Barker, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
The PT-Project: An Internet-based Student-Faculty Research Project in Cognitive Science
David Anderson, Harry McBurney, Brent Juelich, John Nugent, Greg Flint, Matt Carlson, & Chris Ahillen, Illinois State University
PRESENTATIONS AND PANEL DISCUSSION ON
FREE SPEECH, PORNOGRAPHY, AND CENSORSHIP ON THE INTERNET
Pornography and the Internet
Doug Birsch, Villanova
Feminists and Pornography in Cyberspace
Susan Mallon Ross, Clarkson University
Wizards, Toads, and Ethics Wes Cooper
Chair: Charles Ess, Drury College
ELECTRONIC SOURCES
Electronic Socratics: Philosophical Multimedia in the Academy and for the General Public
Ken Knisely
Great Voyages: The History of Western Philosophy from 1492-1776
William Uzgalis
What is Socrates or The World Archive of Philosophy?
Ernst-Jan C. Wit
AI, COGNITIVE SCIENCE, AND PHILOSOPHY
Anthropological Concepts in AI
Anne Foerst, MIT
Human Knowledge
Vladimir Geroimenko, Goteborg University, Sweden
The Very Idea of Computer Self- Knowledge and Self-Deception
Sanford C. Goldberg, Grinnell College
August 10, 1996
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
John Dewey Meets the Barney Generation: The Role of Computational Media in Coming to Know
Elliot Soloway*
University of Michigan
Introduced by Nelson Pole, Cleveland State University
*Due to a medical emergency, Elliot Soloway will not be able to attend.
Scott Stevens, Carnegie Mellon Informedia, will give a substitute presentation.
The Transversal Logic of the World Wide Web: A Philosophical Analysis
Mike Sandbothe, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Hyperproof and Visual Reasoning
Gerard Allwein & Atsushi Shimojima, Visual Inference Laboratory, Indiana University
Panel Discussion on Computers and the Future of Higher Education
Marvin Croy, University of North Carolina/Charlotte
Helen Nissenbaum, Princeton University
Richard Scheines, Carnegie Mellon University
Chair: Terry Bynum
ETHICS AND THE INTERNET
Civil Cyber-discourse Can Virtual Virtues Be Taught?
Jon Dorbolo, Oregon State University
Teaching Ethics Using the Web
Larry Hinman, San Diego
Randomized Algorithms
Don Fallis
Chair: Catherine Womack, Union College
Software for Comprehensive Logic Instruction
Nicholas Asher, Rob Koons, David V. Newman
COMPUTERS AND ETHICS OR AESTHETICS
Artificial Morality: Extolling the Virtues of Capitalism
John F. Decker and Greg Scaffidi
Computing Beauty-values and Philosophy of Art
Vladimir Lobovikov, Visiting Professor, University of Texas
Computer Ethics and the New Social Ethos
James M. Willson-Quayle