contributing conferences
IS4SI 2021
Philosophy and Computing APC
Contributing Conferences Program
2021/09
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
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APC:
16:00-19:25 UTC
Sun 12th Sep
APC
Machine Consciousness
Joscha Bach
16:00-16:30 UTC
Sun 12th Sep
The strength of weak artificial consciousness
Anil Seth
16:30-17:00 UTC
Sun 12th Sep
Virtualism as a perspective on consciousness
Joscha Bach
17:00-17:30 UTC
Sun 12th Sep
Epistemic indeterminacy and the applied ethics of synthetic phenomenology
Thomas Metzinger
17:30-18:00 UTC
Sun 12th Sep
Making a machine that really feels
J. Kevin O'Regan
18:00-18:30 UTC
Sun 12th Sep
Non-reductive physicalism
Peter Boltuc
18:30-19:00 UTC
Sun 12th Sep
Machine Consciousness, Meta-Knowledge, and Physical Omniscience
Ron Chrisley.
19:00-19:25 UTC
Sun 12th Sep
Discussion
APC-BICA:
20:30-22:00 UTC
Sun 12th Sep
Joint Session 1 APC-BICA
20:30-21:00 UTC
Sun 12th Sep
Philosophy 2.0: Applying Collective Intelligence Systems and Iterative Degrees of Scientific Validation
Kyrtin Arteides
21:00-22:00 UTC
Sun 12th Sep
From Signals to Knowledge and from Knowledge to Action: Peircean Semiotics and the Grounding of Cognition
Ricardo Gudwin
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
(BICA Schedule for Monday need
verification)
Block 2:
13:00-16:00 UTC
Mon 13th Sep
BICA Plenary Discussion and Two Lectures
+ BICA DAY for APC participants
David Kelley
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
APC:
10:45-12:55 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
APC: The 4-th space.
Daniel Hardegger
A. The 4th Space team
10:45-10:50 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
Introduction
10:50-11:30 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
Towards a Merging of Spaces: A ‘holistic concept’ for the emerging “4th Space”
Daniel Hardegger
11:30-11:45 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
Co-Working Spaces, Innovation and the 4th Space
Nick Clifton
11:45-12:00 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
Everybody lies? Misinformation and its implications for the “4th Space”
Christoph M. Abels
12:00-12:15 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
4th Space as Information Ecology with Requirements of Inclusion and Ethics
Gordana Dodig Crnkovic
12:15-12:30 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
The Fourth Space as Reality
Piotr (Peter) Bołtuć
12:30-12:55 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
General Discussion
including: Tom Abeles and Rafał Maciąg
16:00-18:00 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
Special session in Applied Philosophy of AI
16:00-16:40 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
The moral status of embodied AI’s
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
16:40-17:20 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
Philosophy in the Age of Blockchain
Mark Waser.
17:20-17:50 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
Finding the “I” with AI – modeling self and its place in the natural order
Jeffrey White
18:00-20:00 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
Special session on the 4th space: Emerging Futures
18:00-18:20 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
Navigating Futures
Tom Abeles
18:20-18:40 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
The space of humanistic management
Rafał Maciąg
18:40-19:00 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
Towards a truly pragmatic concept of knowledge
Rafał Maciąg
19:00-19:20 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
Legal concerns concerning digital fourth space
Maria-Luisa Gómez Jiménez
19:20 UTC
Tue 14th Sep
General discussion
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
APC:
16:00 UTC
Wed 15th Sep
APC
Analytical Philosophy of AI
16:30 UTC
Wed 15th Sep
The End of Theory: Will Data Deluge and Machine Learning Make the Scientific Method Obsolete? (invited GRADUATE PAPER)
Piotr Giza
17:00 UTC
Wed 15th Sep
Isomorphism between Sudoku and proof systems and its application in Sudoku solving
Jakub Dakowski
17:30 UTC
Wed 15th Sep
The problem of existence of virtual objects
Mariusz Mazurek
18:00 UTC
Wed 15th Sep
The Argument Against Fact Check
Robin Hill
18:30 UTC
Wed 15th Sep
Break
19:00-20:00 UTC
Wed 15th Sep
Special lecture in Symbiotic Computing
Symbiotic Computing: A methodological analysis
Mark Burgin, Rao Mikkilineni
APC-BICA:
20:10 UTC
Wed 15th Sep
Joint session APC-BICA
Philosophy of Education: THE PANORAMIC LEADERSHIP AS A NEW PARADIGM OF TEACHING IN THE AGE OF COMMON DIGITALIZATION
Andrew Targowski
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
APC:
16:00-19:00 UTC
Thu 16th Sep
APC Session Information and Computing
16:00-16:30 UTC
Thu 16th Sep
Information is (only) probability 8:00
Riccardo Manzotti
16:30-17:00 UTC
Thu 16th Sep
Neuroprosthetics and neurosimulations technologies
Max Talanov
17:30-18:00 UTC
Thu 16th Sep
Perceptions, imagery, memory and consciousness in man and machine
Magnus Johnsson
APC:
18:30-20:00 UTC
Thu 16th Sep
APC Social Philosophy
18:30-18:35 UTC
Thu 16th Sep
Introductions
18:35 UTC
Thu 16th Sep
Ethical governance of AI in the global south: A Human rights approach to responsible use of AI
Aníbal Monasterio Astobiza, Txetxu Ausín, Belén Liedo, Mario Toboso, Manuel Aparicio, Daniel López
19:10 UTC
Thu 16th Sep
Freedom of speech – European tradition and new challenges
Aleksander Bobko
19:35 - 20:00 UTC
Thu 16th Sep
The Will to Submit: Surveillance Technologies and Autonomy
Dustin Gray
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
Block 2: APC:
13:00-16:00 UTC
Fri 17th Sep
APC
Peter Boltuc
13:00-14:30 UTC
Fri 17th Sep
Exploring open-ended intelligence using patternist philosophy
Ben Goertzel
14:30-16:00 UTC
Fri 17th Sep
Artificial Inventors, AI, Law and Institutional Economics
Plenary Panel: Stephen Thaler [Discovery Engines]; Kate Gaudry [Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP]; Peter Boltuc [UIS;WSE]; David Kelley [BCG]:
APC:
16:10-18:10 UTC
Fri 17th Sep
APC PHAEDE I Viorel Guliciuc
Waiting for the first AI enrolled in a philosophy/social sciences/humanities program
16:00 UTC
Fri 17th Sep
The Uniqueness of the Unlocked Character of Human Creative Abductive Inferences
Lorenzo Magnani
Natural or artificial: Life with a cursor?
Colin T. A. Schmidt,
Is AI capable of generating an ethic to save the planet and contemporary society?
L. Dan Milici.
Computing the human and humanizing computers
Denisa Lepădatu.
APC:
18:10-20:15 UTC
Fri 17th Sep
APC PHAEDE II Viorel Guliciuc
For an ethnology of AGIs moralities
Viorel Guliciuc
Can the Right Math Foil Superhuman, Unethical AGIs? Yes
Selmer Bringsjord
AGI and Morality: Sense and Nonsense of Morality without Will and Body
Kuruvilla Joseph Pandikattu SJ
Ethical AI is a Moral Simulacra
Bogdan Popoveniuc
Could we speak about a moral identity of AI?
Viorel Guliciuc
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
APC:
2:30-3:55 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
APC
2:30 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
Platonic Computer – The universal machine from which everything is produced
Simon Duan
3:00 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
Bayesian epistemology and Solomonoff induction are bad foundations for understanding intelligence
Daniel C. Elton
3:30 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
Ontology and AI Paradigms
Pawel Polak, Roman Krzanowski
Block 1:
4:00-7:00 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
1) Plenary APC (90 min.)
Peter Boltuc
4:00-4:30 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
Two kinds of computational indeterminacy
Oron Shagrir with Philippos Papayannopoulos, and Nir Fresco [Hebrew University of Jerusalem]
4:30-5:30 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
Exploring robotic minds using free energy minimization principle
Jun Tani [OIST]
APC:
16:00-17:30 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
APC
Gödel, Church, and Turing in Retrospect
Gary Mar
16:00-16:30 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
Who is the human computer?
Oron Shagrir
16:30-17:00 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
The Decision Problem for Effective Procedures
Nathan Salmón
17:00-17:30 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
Gödel on the Creativity of Mathematics versus Turing’s Mechanistic View of the Mind: An Irreconcilable Dichotomy?
Gary Mar
APC:
17:30-20:30 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
APC Computer Ethics
17:30 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
AGI, Consciousness & Morality
Mark Waser
18:00 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
The ethics of AI as IA
Vincent C. Müller & Alexandre Erler
18:30 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
An Ethical and Technical Examination of ICRC's Call for Regulation of Autonomous Weapons
Sean Welsh.
19:00 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
Ecological big data: between hybridization of old scientific traditions and novel transformations of research practices in ecology
Léo Trocmé—Nadal
19:30 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
Paradigms for Smart Farming: Chemical, Ecological, Algorithmic
Susan Castro
20:00 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
Conceptual engineering and the harms of AI bias
Roxanne Smith
20:30 UTC
Sat 18th Sep
APC
Association for Philosophy and Computing – following up on the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computes.
Discussion for members and all curious or interested.
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