If you are looking for the CFP for the "Robot Ethics and Human Ethics" special issue of Ethics and Information Technology, click here. Deadline: September 1st, 2009.

Details for the 2009 NACAP Conference on Networks and Their Philosophical Implications are available here. The conference will be held June 14th-16th at Indiana University.

The latest statement on the goals and ambitions of the Noesis Project are soon to be published in Synthese. A penultimate draft is available here. Comments are welcome. I am pleased to report that Noesis will receive two more years of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the form of a subcontract grant with Indiana University.

(A complete Curriculum Vitae is also available on this site.)

Director of Cognitive Science, The University of Evansville, since 2004.

Director of the Cognitive Modeling Laboratory, The University of Evansville, since 2009.

Digital Humanities Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008-2009.

Executive Director, International Association for Computing and Philosophy, 2001-2004 and 2008-2013.

Visiting Scholar, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, 2007-2011. 

Affiliated Researcher, InPhO: The Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project, Indiana University, since 2007.

Editor, Noesis: Philosophical Research Online, Since 1998.

"Noesis and the Encyclopedic Internet Vision," Synthese, forthcoming.

"Facebook and the Question of Authentic Self-Identity," with Tamara Wandel. In Facebook and Philosophy, edited by Dylan Wittkower (Chicago: IL: Open Court), forthcoming.

Two Short Encyclopedia Articles: "Anaximander of Melitus" (44-45) and "Heraclitus of Ephesus." In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, edited by Thomas Hockey (Springer, 2007).

"What Can A Robot Teach Us about Kantian Ethics?" This paper is an extended version of the conference presentation "Between Angels and Animals" mentioned below. Targeted journal: Kantian Review. Anticipated submission date: September 1st, 2009.

"Mechanical vs. Symbolic Computation: Two Contrasting Strategies for Information Processing." This paper is being prepared for my December 2009 APA presentation in New York and for future publication. Targeted journal: Philosophy of Science. Anticipated submission date: January 1st, 2010.

"Information Technology and the Ethics of Clear Vision." Targeted journal: Ethics. Anticipated submission date: March 1st, 2010.

"Ethical Responsibility and the Knowlege of Other Minds." Targeted journal: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Anticipated submission date: May 1st, 2010.

"On the Use and Abuse of Descartes in Contemporary Cognitive Science." Targeted journal: The British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Anticipated submission date: July 1st, 2010.

Review of Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong by Wendall Wallach and Colin Allen, Philosophy Now 71 (2009).

Review of The Phenomenological Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science by Shaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi, Philosophical Psychology, forthcoming.

Review of Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation by Matthew Ratcliffe, Journal of Consciousness Studies, forthcoming.

Review of Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong by Wendall Wallach and Colin Allen, Ethics and Information Technology.

Review of Folk Psychological Narratives: The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons by Daniel Hutto, Journal of Consciousness Studies.

Review of The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger, Philosophical Psychology.

Invited Speaker, "Mechanical vs. Symbolic Computation: Two Contrasting Strategies for Information Processing," Society for Machines and Mentality, Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New York City, December 27th - 30th, 2009.

Invited Speaker, "The Ethics of Facebook," Technology and Ethics Lecture Series, Ethics + Emerging Technologies Group, California Polytechnic State University, May 4th, 2009.

Presenter, "Between Angels an Animals: The Question of Robot Ethics, or Is Kantian Moral Agency Desirable?" Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Eighteenth Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 5th - 8th, 2009.

Invited Speaker, "Domain-Specific Search and the Encyclopedic Internet Vision," Spring 2008 Talk Series on Network and Complex Systems, Indiana University, February 25th, 2008. (View Slides)

Total funding awarded to date: $209,650. See my Curriculum Vitae for details.

InPhO @ Work: Providing Integrated Access to Philosophy, National Endowment for the Humanities (C. Allen, PI); Subcontract to the University of Evansville, 2009-2011, $35,000.

Noesis: Philosophical Research Online, Digital Humanities Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008-2009, $75,400.

Travel Grant for Noesis: Philosophical Research Online, Alumni Research and Scholarly Activity Fellowship, University of Evansville, 2008, $750.

Library Development Grant for Resources in the Cognitive and Neural Sciences, Wheeler Fund, University of Evansville, 2007, $1,250.

Travel Grant for Noesis: Philosophical Research Online, Alumni Research and Scholarly Activity Fellowship, University of Evansville, 2007, $750.

Area Editor, Philosophy of Computing and Information, PhilPapers, edited by David Chalmers and David Bourget, since 2009. 

Editor of a special issue of Ethics and Information Technology, "Robot Ethics and Human Ethics," 2009-2010.

Co-editor (with Colin Allen) of a special issue of Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, "Representing Philosophy," 2007-2009.

Book Proposal Reviewer, Cambridge University Press, 2008; Columbia University Press, 2006; Polity Press, 2008; and Routledge, 2006 and 2008.

Member, Planning Committee, Workshop on Ethical Guidance for Research and Application of Pervasive and Autonomous Information Technology, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 3rd - 4th, 2010.

Member, Organizing and Program Committee, "Complex Adaptive Systems and the Threshold Effect: Views from the Natural and Social Sciences," Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium Series, Arlington, Virginia, November 5th - 7th, 2009.

Invited Participant, "Workshop on Mapping the History and Philosophy of Science," sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the James S. McDonnell Foundation, Indiana University, June 17th - 18th, 2009.

Program Chair, Annual North American Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy, "Networks and Their Philosophical Implications," Indiana University (NA-CAP@IU), June 14th - 16th, 2009.

Grant Reviewer and Panelist, The Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Program, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., June 2nd, 2009.

Member, Turing Centenary Advisory Committee, The Alan Turing Year: A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Alan Turing (ATY), 2009-2012.

Invited Participant, "Promoting Digital Scholarship: Formulating Research Challenges in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Computation," Council on Library and Information Resources and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., September 15th, 2008.

Program Chair, Annual North American Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy, "The Limits of Computation," Indiana University (NA-CAP@IU), July 10th - 12th, 2008.

Member, Website Services Committee, Consortium on Cognitive Science Instruction (CCSI), 2008-2012.

For the past two years, I have also been working on a number of computer modeling experiments to explore the elementary cognitive properties of dynamic associative networks in the search for "initial intelligence," the basic building blocks of larger scale cognitive skills.