contributing conferences

IS4SI 2021

Philosophy and Computing APC


Contributing Conferences Program

2021/09

PROGRAM

SEPTEMBER 12-18

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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