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Spring 2001
Volume 00, Number 2

Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers

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   January 2001 marked a milestone event for the computing and philosophy community as the CAP conference, held annually in August at Carnegie Mellon University, gave birth to a second meeting to be held at venues in the western region. The midwife of this process, Robert Cavalier (now chair of the APA Computing and Philosophy committee), opened the event with reflections on the fifteen year history of the conference and his equally long role as chief organizer. The recent meeting, CAP@OSU was held at Oregon State University and organized by Jon Dorbolo and Bill Uzgalis (Editors of this newsletter). By all accounts the three day meeting was a success.
   All of the sessions were well attended (from 25 to 60 participants). Discussion was lively. Vans provided transportation from the conference center to the hotels. A computer lab at the library was available for attendees. The program covered the full range of areas traditional to CAP conference including, Computer Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Metaphysics, Cultural and Political Issues, Scholarship and Publishing, Information Theory, Robotics, and Pedagogical Computing. It is clear that computing and philosophy is a growth area and can easily sustain two meetings per year.
   The CAP@OSU program was diverse and powerful. Abstracts of the sessions are provided below. Oregon State University deserves much thanks for supporting CAP@OSU. Generous sponsorship came from The Valley Library, The Provost's Office, The Research Office, The Department of Philosophy, Information Services, Distance and Continuing Education, Computer Science, College of Engineering, Program for Ethics Science and the Environment, The Horning Foundation, and the American Philosophical Association. An explicit goal of CAP@OSU is to garner enough external funding to remain a partner with, but not fiscally dependent upon, host institutions. This meeting is likely to partner with and travel to other institutions in the future. For the first three years Oregon State University will be home base. CAP@OSU 2001 is scheduled for January 24, 25, 26, 2002.
   The entire conference was web cast live. Preliminary logs show that colleagues from Utah, Washington State, Pennsylvania, and Scottland were attending online. The conference sessions are now available for viewing at the CAP@OSU web site http://osu.orst.edu/groups/cap. The web site is designed to act as a year-round resource with new information, features, discussions, and events posted frequently. CAP@CMU will be held August 9th-11th this year. See http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/CAAE/CAP for details.
 

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