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Spring 2001
Volume 00, Number 2

Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers

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Information Metaphysics, Naturalism and the Computational
Tony Beavers, The University of Evansville

   Husserl's phenomenology began as a method for exploring consciousness. However, it applies also to understanding some key components of information arrangement. I propose to treat Husserl's "phenomenological reduction as an "information reduction that will help philosophers formulate a general metaphysics of information. I propose also to explore the implications of this reduction with a focus on two related issues, (1) the model of computation that is made explicit by it and (2) the informational aspects of traditional metaphysics that this model makes apparent.
   With a proper comportment toward the history of Western metaphysics and a fully generalized model of computation, I hope to show that information metaphysics is nothing new, but rather the natural culmination of Western metaphysics, beginning with the Presocratics. In other words, phenomenology, when used as a method for the philosophy of information, can help us to see some of what was implicit in the history of metaphysics all along, namely, that any general theory of metaphysics is, and has always been, a theory of the arrangement of information and the rules and mechanisms for its computation.

Narrow Content and Computation
Curtis Brown, Trinity College

   Narrow Content and Computation Thinking about the semantics of computational states can help clarify the nature of narrow content and its relation to broad content.

History of CAP
Robert Cavalier, Carnegie Mellon University

   The first Computing and Philosophy conference (CAP) was held at Cleveland State University in 1989. Its program was mostly devoted to technical issues in logic software. Over time, CAP conferences expanded to cover all aspects of the convergence of computing and philosophy. In 1993, Carnegie Mellon became a host site. The program archives presented here cover CAP-programs from 1995 to the present. The Computing and Philosophy conference has become the central meeting place for all aspects of computing and philosophy.

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