International Association for Computing and Philosophy
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The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) is a professional, philosophical association emerging from a history of conferences that began in 1986. Adopting its mission from these conferences, the IACAP exists in order to promote scholarly dialogue on all aspects of the computational/informational turn and the use of computers in the service of philosophy.
The role of the IACAP is to help facilitate a global communications network for those interested in computing and philosophy as defined by these themes. To this end, it sponsors a series of international conferences and this developing website.
The IACAP maintains a friendship with the American Philosophical Association through the liaison of the APA's Committee on Philosophy and Computers. It is currently based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Presidents:
- Robert Cavalier, founder
- Jon Dorbolo 2003-2006
- Luciano Floridi 2006-
IACAP's research and teaching areas included:
- Artificial Intelligence / Cognitive Science
- Artificial Life / Computer Modeling in Biology
- Computer ethics / Information ethics
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Culture and Society
- Distance Education and Electronic Pedagogy
- Electronic Publishing
- Logic and Logic Software
- Metaphysics (Distributed processing, Emergent Properties, Formal Ontology, Network Structures, etc.)
- Online Resources for Philosophy
- Philosophy of Information
- Philosophy of Technology
- Robotics
- Virtual Reality
