Current and Recent Academic Positions

• Professor of Philosophy, University of Evansville, since 2003. Associate Professor, 1996-2003. Assistant Professor, 1991-1996. (Teaching load: 6 to 7 courses per year).
• Director of Cognitive Science, The University of Evansville, since 2004.
• Director of the Digital Humanities Laboratory, The University of Evansville, since 2009.
• President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy, 2011-2014. Executive Director, 2001-2004 and 2008-2011.
• Digital Humanities Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008-2009.
• Visiting Scholar, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, 2007-2012.
• Visiting Lecturer, Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark, July 3rd-6th, 2011. 
• Affiliated Researcher, InPhO: The Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project, Indiana University, since 2007.
• Editor, Noesis: Philosophical Research Online, since 1998.
• Area Editor, Philosophy of Computing and Information, PhilPapers, edited by David Chalmers and David Bourget, since 2009.

Recent Publications

• Does Roboethics Support a Doctrine of Moral Methodological Behaviorism or Some Variant Thereof? Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, American Philosophical Association, in process, forthcoming.
• Computational Philosophy. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, in process, forthcoming subject to final review.
• Could and Should the Ought Disappear from Ethics? (Slides). Written for the International Symposium on Digital Ethics, Loyola University Chicago, October 28th, 2011. (Peter Lang, Digital Formations Series, 2012), forthcoming.
• Information-Theoretic Teleodynamics in Natural and Artificial Systems (with Christopher Harrison). In A Computable Universe: Understanding Computation & Exploring Nature as Computation, edited by Hector Zenil (World Scientific, 2012), forthcoming.
• In the Beginning Was the Word and Then Four Revolutions in the History of Information. In Luciano Floridi's Philosophy of Technology: Critical Reflections, edited by Hilmi Demir (Springer, Philosophy of Engineering and Technology Book Series, 2012), forthcoming.
• Alan Turing: Mathematical Mechanist. In Alan Turing: His Work and Impact, edited by S. Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen (Elsevier Science, 2012), forthcoming.
• Historicizing Floridi: The Question of Method, The State of the Profession, and the Timeliness of Floridi's Philosophy of Information. Etica & Politica / Ethics and Politics 13.2 (2011): 255-275.
• Moral Machines and the Threat of Ethical Nihilism. In Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implication of Robotics, edited by Patrick Lin, George Bekey and Keith Abney (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011), 333-344.
• Recent Developments in Computing and Philosophy. Journal for the General Philosophy of Science 42.2 (2011): 385-397.
• Noesis and the Encyclopedic Internet Vision. Synthese 182.2 (2011): 315-333.
• Typicality Effects and Resilience in Evolving Dynamic Networks. In FS-10-03, The Association for the Advancement of Artifical Intelligence Press, 2010.
• Mechanists of the Revolution: The Case of Edison and Bell (with Brent Sigler). In Proceedings of the VIII European Conference on Computing and Philosophy. Edited by Klaus Mainzer (Munich: Verlag Dr. Hut, 2010), 426-430.
• Playing Around with Identity (with Tamara Wandel). In Facebook and Philosophy, edited by Dylan Wittkower (Chicago: IL: Open Court, 2010), 89-96.

In Process

• What Would MorMach Require? An Argument in Favor of a No Fault Ethics. The third paper in a series beginning with Moral Machines and the Threat of Ethical Nihilism and Could and Should the Ought Disappear from Ethics listed above. Being prepared for submission to a special issue of Topoi dedicated to Machine Ethics & The Ethics of Building Intelligent Machines.
• The Philosophy of Information and the Structure of Philosophical Revolutions. The third paper in a series beginning with In the Beginning Was the Word and Then Four Revolutions in the History of Information and Historicizing Floridi: The Question of Method, The State of the Profession, and the Timeliness of Floridi's Philosophy of Information listed above. Being prepared for the Seminar on the Philosophy of the Web, The Sorbonne, Paris, May 19th, 2012 (entry below), and then reworked for publication.
• Transcendental Philosophy in the Age of Information: Floridi's Neo-Kantian Epistemology. Being prepared for the 4th International Workshop on the Philosophy of Information, The University of Hertfordshire, England, May 10th-11th, 2012 (entry below), and then reworked for submission to the 2013 Kant Yearbook on Kant and Contemporary Theory of Knowledge.
• (How) Can Semantic Information Be Reduced to Information Theory? Implications for an Information-Theoretic Philosophy of Mind. A philosophical reflection based on Typicality Effects and Resilience in Evolving Dynamic Networks and Information-Theoretic Teleodynamics in Natural and Artificial Systems listed above. Being prepared for presentation in the Cognitive Science Lecture Series, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, April 4th, 2012 (entry below) and then reworked for publication.

Edited Volumes

• Inforgs and the Infosphere: Themes from Luciano Floridi's Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Special Issue of The Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETAI), in progress, forthcoming, 2013.
• Philosophy in the Age of Information: A Symposium on Luciano Floridi's Philosophy of Information, Special Issue of Minds and Machines, in progress, forthcoming, 2012-2013.
• Ethics and Affective Computing, Special Issue of The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Transactions in Affective Computing, in progress, forthcoming, 2012.
• Representing Philosophy (with Colin Allen), Special Issue of Synthese 182.2, 2011.
• Robot Ethics and Human Ethics, Special Issue of Ethics and Information Technology 12.3, 2010.

Recent Reviews

• Review of Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind by José Luis Bermúdez. Philosophical Psychology, forthcoming.
• Review of Information: A Very Short Introduction by Luciano Floridi. Minds and Machines 21.1 (2011): 97-101.
• Review of Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong by Wendall Wallach and Colin Allen. Philosophy Now 71 (2009). A slightly revised version of this review also appeared in Ethics and Information Technology 12.4 (2010): 357-358.
• Review of Rethinking Commonsense Psychology: A Critique of Folk Psychology, Theory of Mind and Simulation by Matthew Ratcliffe. Journal of Consciousness Studies 17.1-2 (2010): 235-238.
• Review of The Phenomenological Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science by Shaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi. Philosophical Psychology 22.4 (2009): 533-537.

In Process

• Review of The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics edited by Kenneth Himma and Herman Tavani. International Review of Information Ethics, forthcoming.
• Review of Information Ethics, Volume II of Principia Philosophiae Informationis by Luciano Floridi. Minds and Machines, forthcoming.

Speaking Engagements

• Invited Speaker, Title to Be Determined. Panel Session on the Philosophy of Information, Its Challenges and Opportunities. The XXIII World Congress of Philosophy: Philosophy as Inquiry and Way of Life, Athens, Greece, August 4th-10th, 2013. (Panel awaiting final confirmation).
• Invited Speaker, On the Philosophical Assumptions Affecting the Reduction of Semantics to Syntax. Workshop on The Incomputable, part ot the Programme on Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing, The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, England, June 12th-15th, 2012. (Event to be held offsite at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre, Buckinghamshire).
• Invited Speaker, The Philosophy of Information and the Structure of Philosophical Revolutions. Seminar on the Philosophy of the Web, The Sorbonne, May 19th, and the Centre Pompidou, May 20th, Paris, 2012.
• Transcendental Philosophy in the Age of Information: Floridi's Neo-Kantian Epistemology. The 4th International Workshop on the Philosophy of Information, The University of Hertfordshire, England, May 10th-11th, 2012.
• Invited Speaker, (How) Can Semantic Information Be Reduced to Information Theory? Implications for an Information-Theoretic Philosophy of Mind. Issues in Cognitive Science Lecture Series, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, April 4th, 2012.
• Invited Speaker, Could and Should the Ought Disappear from Ethics? (Slides) International Symposium on Digital Ethics, Center for Digital Ethics and Policy, School of Communication, Loyola University Chicago, October 28th, 2011.
• Invited Speaker, Hybrid Networks: Transforming Networks for Social and Textual Analysis into Teleodynamic and Predictive Mechanisms (with Christopher Harrison). Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), University of California, Los Angeles, October 20th-22nd, 2011. A shorter version of this talk was presented immediately below.
• Invited Speaker, A Brief Introduction to Information-Theoretic Teleodynamics. Panel on Info-Metrics: Information Processing across the Sciences. Info-Metrics Institute Workshop on the Philosophy of Information, American University, Washington, D.C., October 3rd, 2011.
• Presidential Keynote Speaker, Is Ethics Computable, Or What Other than Can Does Ought Imply? Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy, Aarhus University, Denmark, July 4th, 2011. Abstract published in the Proceedings of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy 2011 Conference: The Computational Turn: Past, Presents, Futures? Edited by Charles Ess and Ruth Hagengruber (Münster, Germany: Verlagshaus Monsenstein & Vannerdat OHG, 2011), 19-21.
• Inside the Psychology of the Agent: Information, Association, Attraction and Repulsion. National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, Computer Simulations in the Humanities, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, June 10th, 2011.
• Invited Speaker, Facebook Revisited: How the Business of Social Networking May Redefine Our Sense of Right and Wrong. Technology and Ethics Lecture Series, Ethics + Emerging Technologies Group, California Polytechnic State University, May 13th, 2011.
• Typicality Effects and Resilience in Evolving Dynamic Networks. Complex Adaptive Systems: Resilience, Robustness, and Evolvability, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium Series, Arlington, Virginia, November 11th-13th, 2010.
• Invited Speaker, Can Virtue Be Safe in an Online World?: The Problems and Perils of Ungoverned Social Networking. Province Psi Leadership School & Convention, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity, November 6th-7th, 2010.
• Mechanists of the Revolution: The Case of Edison and Bell (with Brent Sigler). European Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP), Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, October 4th-6th, 2010.
• Cartesian Mechanisms and Transcendental Philosophy. Conference on the Myth of the Cartesian 'Ego' and the Analytic/Continental Divide, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, September 3rd-4th, 2010.
• More Fun with Jets and Sharks: Typicality Effects and the Search for the Perfect Attractors. North American Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP), Simulations and Their Philosophical Implications, Carnegie Mellon University, July 24th-26th, 2010.
• Invited Speaker, The Genesis of Moral Machines: On Making Robots in the Garden of Eden. Concepts of Good and Evil in Literature (Julia Galbus, Instructor), University of Southern Indiana, March 25th, 2010.
• Invited Speaker, Moral Robots and Kantian Ethics. Information Ethics and Technology-based Ecosystems (David Saab, Instructor), Pennsylvania State University, March 18th, 2010.
• 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.
• 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.

Local Presentations

• Complexity and Cognition: Circuits not Software. Crick Lecture in the Cognitive and Neural Sciences, The University of Evansville, April 11th, 2012.
• Invited Speaker, Recursion, Memory and Information Entropy in Dynamic Associative Networks. Cognitive Neuroscience Club, The University of Evansville, November 30th, 2011.
• Invited Speaker, Deriving Semantic Meaning by Measuring the Quantity of Information Flow. Fall Faculty Conference, The University of Evansville, Evansville, Indiana, August 17th, 2011.
• Invited Speaker, Monkeys, Mind Control and Virtual Reality Video Games. University of Evansville Admissions Office Road Trip Open House, February 19th, 2011.
• Invited Speaker, When Your Profile Knows More about You than You Do: The Power of Cognitive Computing, or Why I Left Facebook. Crick Lecture in the Cognitive and Neural Sciences, The University of Evansville, September 27th, 2010.
• The Philosophical Implications of Signal Transduction. Cognitive and Neural Science Research Group, University of Evansville, September, 30th, 2009.

Grants and Fellowships

• Transforming Standard Databases into Teleodynamic and Predictive Mechanisms (Christopher Harrison, Co-PI), UExplore Undergraduate Research Program, The University of Evansville, Summer 2011, $10,585.
• Computer Simulations in the Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities (with Marvin Croy, Patrick Grim and Mirsad Hadzikadic), 2010-2012, $155,415.
• InPhO @ Work: Providing Integrated Access to Philosophy, National Endowment for the Humanities (C. Allen, PI), Subcontract to the University of Evansville from Indiana University, 2009-2011, $35,000.
• Noesis: Philosophical Research Online, Digital Humanities Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008-2009, $75,400.
• Total funding awarded to date: $375,650. See my Curriculum Vitae for details.

Conferences, Institutes, Symposia and Workshops

• Member, Turing Centenary Advisory Committee and TCAC Culture Subcommittee, The Alan Turing Year: A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Alan Turing (ATY), 2009-2012.
• Member, Programme Committee, Turing in Context II, The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels, October 10th-12th, 2012.
• Co-Chair, with John Barnden and Manfred Kerber, The 2012 AISB/IACAP World Congress, A Joint Venture of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour and the International Association for Computing and Philosophy, University of Birmingham, England, July 2nd-6th, 2012.
• Chair, Symposium on Computational Philosophy, The 2012 AISB/IACAP Word Congress. See entry above for further details.
• Moderator, Author Meets Critics Session of Luciano Floridi's The Philosophy of Information, The 2012 AISB/IACAP Word Congress. See entry above for further details.
• Co-chair, with Mirsad Hadzikadic and Paul Youngman, Human Complexity 2012, The First Annual Conference on Complexity and Human Experience, Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, May 30th-June 1st, 2012.
• Member, Organizing Committee, The 3rd International Conference on Proportionality, Quantitative Justice and Fairness: Inference and Causality-Consequentialism-Distributive Justice, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, Portugal, May 22nd-24th, 2012.
• Member, Program Committee, PhiloWeb 2012, Web and Philosophy: Why and What For? To be held as part of World Wide Web 2012, Lyon, France, April 16th-20th, 2012.
• Member, Organizing Committee, Complex Adaptive Systems: Energy, Information, and Intelligence, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Fall Symposium Series, Arlington, Virginia, November 4th-6th, 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence, Thessaloniki, Greece, October, 2011.
• Member, Programme Committee, Computability in Europe, CiE 2011, Models of Computation in Context, Sofia, Bulgaria, June, 2011.
• Co-director (with Marvin Croy, Patrick Grim and Mirsad Hadzikadic), National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, Computer Simulations in the Humanities, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, May 31st-June 16th, 2011.
• Session Moderator, Models in Perception, Cognition and Neuroscience, and Group Reporter, Session on IPCC Climate Change, Epistemology of Modeling and Simulation, National Conference, University of Pittsburgh, April 1st-3rd, 2011.
• Member, Organizing and Program Committee, Complex Adaptive Systems: Resilience, Robustness, and Evolvability, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium Series, Arlington, Virginia, November 11th-13th, 2010.
• Co-planner (with Ken Pimple, Rich Miller and Glenda Miller) and Participant, Book Workshop on the Ethics of Pervasive and Autonomous Information Technology, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University, October 20th, 2010.
• Senior Advisor, φ-BOT10: Philosophy Meets Robotics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, October 6th-7th, 2010.
• Track Co-Chair, with Amnon Eden, Technological Singularity and Acceleration Studies, European Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP), Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, October 4th-6th, 2010.
• Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities, sponsored by the National Science Foundation Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), University of California, Los Angeles, August 15th-27th, 2010.
• Participant, OpenSeminar in Research Ethics Workshop, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, July 12th-13th, 2010.
• 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 (AAAI) Fall Symposium Series, Arlington, Virginia, November 5th-7th, 2009.
• Invited Participant, Workshop on Ethics in Science and Engineering: Redefining Tools & Resources, sponsored by the National Center for Digital Government; the Science, Technology and Society Initiative; the University Libraries of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and the National Science Foundation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October, 23rd, 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, June 14th-16th, 2009.
• 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, July 10th-12th, 2008.

Other Related Work

• Grant Reviewer and Panelist, The Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Program, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., June 2nd, 2009 and May 24th, 2011.
• Journal Referee, The Journal of Business Ethics, 2009; Ethics and Information Technology, 2009, 2010 & 2011; The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 2009; Minds and Machines, 2010 & 2011; Information Sciences, 2010 & 2011; Philosophy & Technology, 2010 & 2011; Philosophy of Science, 2011; IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Spectrum, 2011; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2012.
• Book Manuscript and Proposal Reviewer, Columbia University Press, 2006; Routledge, 2006 & 2008; Cambridge University Press, 2008 & 2009; Polity Press, 2008; MIT Press, 2009; Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
• Member, Website Services Committee, Consortium on Cognitive Science Instruction (CCSI), 2008-2012.
• For the past four and a half years, I have also been working on a number of computer modeling experiments to explore the elementary cognitive properties of Dynamic Associative Networks (DANs) in the search for initial intelligence, the basic building blocks of larger scale cognitive skills.