International Association for Computing and Philosophy


The International Association for Computing and Philosophy is a professional, philosophical association emerging from a history of conferences on computing and philosophy that began in 1986. After the American A-CAP and the European E-CAP, the IACAP was founded in 2004. It adopts its mission from these conferences in order to promote scholarly dialogue on all aspects of the computational turn and the use of computers in the service of philosophy.
The role of the IACAP is to help facilitate a global communications network for those interested in computing and philosophy as defined by these themes. To this end, it sponsors a series of international conferences and this developing website.
The founding members of IACAP include Ron Barnette, Selmer Bringsjord, Terry Bynum, Robert Cavalier, Preston Covey, Marvin Croy, Charles Ess, James H. Moor, Nelson Pole, and Saul Traiger.
WWW iacap.org

Awards

IACAP has two annual awards: The Covey Award and The Herbert A. Simon Award. Both are decided by an independent committee and awarded at a ceremony at the annual conference.

The Covey Award

The Covey Award recognizes senior scholars with a substantial record of innovative research in the field of computing and philosophy, broadly conceived.

The Herbert A. Simon Award

The Herbert A. Simon Award is given to promising young researchers in the field.

Presidents

Research and teaching areas

IACAP research and teaching areas include: