Conference Programme Last updated: 24 July, 2006
THURSDAY 22 JUN
09.00-10.30	REGISTRATION – Dragvoll Campus, next to Auditorium D1 Tea, coffee and pastries served (next to auditoriums)
10.00-10.15	Opening by May Thorseth and Charles Ess [Auditorium D1]
10.15-10.30	Opening by NTNU Rector, Torbjørn Digernes [D1]
10.30-11.30	Keynote address: Professor Raymond Turner, <University of Essex>, UK [D1] The Philosophy of Theoretical Computer Science
11.30-12.30	Lunch (SIT Cafeteria)
12.30-14.00	Philosophy of Computer Science 1 [D1] Chair: Raymond Turner	Ontology 1 [D5] Chair: Charles Ess		Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Problem of Consciousness and Cognition 1 [D6] Chair: Susan Stuart
12.30	Timothy Colburn: Abstraction in Computer Science	Sándor Soós: Formal Ontology applied to Philosophy of Science: the Species Problem		Mark Bickhard: Resolving Some Perplexities About Consciousness and Cognition
13.00	Shai Ophir: Computer Science and Commercial Forces: can Computer Science be considered Science?	Luciano Floridi: The Informational Nature of Reality		Cem Bozsahin: Grammars, Programs and the Chinese Room
13.30	Richard Bornat: Is ‘Computer Science’ science?	C. Juan M. Alba: Formalized common ontology, aimed for any computing field, based in physics particles.		Anna-Mari Rusanen: Computational Explanation in Cognitive Neuroscience
14.00-14.15	Break
14.15-15.45	Philosophy of Computer Science 2 [D1] Chair: Raymond Turner		Ontology 2 [D5] chair: Luciano Floridi	Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Problem of Consciousness and Cognition 2 [D6] Chair: Charles Ess
14.15	Lars-Erik Janlert: The program is the solution — what is the problem?		Alessandro Mosca: Artefacts need Functional Ontology: Lessons from Engineering Design	Jonathan Knowles: What’s really wrong with the computational theory of mind
14.45	Amnon Eden, Raymond Turner: Problems in software ontology		Gianluca Paronitti: An Informational Approach to Causality	Marcello Guarini: Computational Theories of Mind, and a Moral Case Classifier
15.15	Curtis Brown: Computation, Representation, and Teleology			Susan Stuart: Consciousness, Bodily Consciousness and Imagination
15.45-16.15	Break — Tea, coffee and pastries served (next to auditoriums)

16.15-18.15	Philosophy of Computer Science 3 [D1] (w/panel discussion) Chair: Raymond Turner	Information and Computing Ethics 1 [D5] Chair: Charles Ess	Philosophy of Information and IT [D6] Chair: Lars-Göran Johansson
16.15	Timothy Colburn: What is Philosophy of Computer Science?	Wolter Pieters: Vulnerabilities as monsters: the cultural foundations of computer security	Patrick Allo: Semantic Information and Logical Orthodoxy: The Case of Contradictions
16.45	Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic: What is Philosophy of Computer Science? Experience from the Swedish National Course	Justine  Johnstone: Technology as empowerment: a capability approach to computer ethics	Mariarosaria  Taddeo: Has the Symbol Grounding Problem been solved?
17.15	Panel discussion: What is the Philosophy of Computer Science? Chair: Tom Maibaum	Juan Gabriel Estrada Alvarez: Reviewing counter-terrorist measures: Where is the weak link in anti-terrorism?	Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson: From Semantic Information to Psychological Information
17.45		Eirik Albrechtsen: Ethical issues in information security management	Don Fallis: Applied Epistemology and Philosophy of Information
20.00	Informal dinner at Dickens, followed by Trondheim walkabout. Meet up at Trondheim Youth Hostel at 19.30 or Scandic Solsiden/Scandic Residence at 19.45. Please notify Johnny Søraker if you wish to attend.

FRIDAY 23 JUN
09.00-10.00	Keynote address: Professor Lucas Introna, <Lancaster University>, UK [D1] Maintaining the Reversibility of Foldings: Making the ethics (politics) of information technology visible
10.00-10.30	Break — Tea, coffee and pastries served (next to auditoriums)
10.30-12.00	Philosophy of Computer Science 4 [D1] Chair: Raymond Turner	Information and Computing Ethics 2 [D5] Chair: Charles Ess	Biological Information, Artificial Life, Biocomputation [D6] Chair: Colin Allen
10.30	Konstantine Arkoudas & Selmer Bringsjord: On foxes and hedgehogs	Annamaria Carusi: Data as representation and its ethical implications	Keld Stehr Nielsen: Cognitively Useful Information
11.00	Tom Maibaum: Of ‘to-be’ and not ‘to-be’ in engineering: resolving Putnam’s challenge and the theoretician’s dilemma	Jean-Gabriel Ganascia: Modelling Ethical Rules with ASP	Mark Bedau: Computational models of evolutionary creativity
11.30	<Alton> Sanders: Programs as Mathematical Objects	Anders Albrechtslund: Designing Surveillance: Value Sensitive Design and Surveillance Technologies	Rune Nydal: Consulting genes by bioinformatical means
12.00-13.00	Lunch (SIT Cafeteria)
13.00-14.30	Philosophy of Computer Science 5 [D1] Chair: Raymond Turner	Information and Computing Ethics 3 [D5] Chair: Charles Ess	Intersections 1 [D6] Chair: Chris Dobbyn
13.00	Tom Maibaum: How Engineering Extends the Statement View	Matteo Turilli: Ethical Protocol Design	Roman Pozarlik: Cognitive Computations with Combinatorial State Automata
13.30	James Noble: Towards a Semiotics of Object- and Aspect-Oriented Design	Miguel Sicart: Beckham’s (Virtual) Blade: On the Relevance of Information Ethics for (Computer) Games	Jean-Gabriel Ganascia: Back into the Inductive Aristotelian Biology with Machine Learning
14.00	Ivar Tormod Berg Ørstavik: How programming language can shape interaction and culture	Kay Mathiesen: The Value of Information	Stefan Trausan-Matu: A Critic of Artificial Intelligence from Bakhtin’s Dialogistic Perspective
14.30-15.00	Break – Tea and Coffee served (next to auditoriums)
15.00-16.30	Philosophy of Computer Science 6 [D1] Chair: Raymond Turner	Information and Computing Ethics 4 [D5] Chair: Charles Ess	Intersections 2 [D6] Chair: Chris Dobbyn
15.00	Oron Shagrir: Gödel on Turing on Computability	Laura Pana: Moral Intelligence	Viola Schiaffonati: Representing and Experimenting: Toward an Epistemology of Computer Simulation
15.30	Amit  Hagar: The Search for the Quantum `Speed-Up’—Between the Anvil and the Hammer	Lise Kvande: Hopes and fears of more data power – Fetal ultrasound diagnostics in the 1980s	Miguel Sicart: The Good Game: Defining the Ethics of Computer Games
16.00	John Geske: On the Hardness of Computable Sets	Lauri Tuovinen: Scamming the Scammers — Vigilante Justice in Virtual Communities	Sarah Stein: Abundance and Immortality in the Age of the Internet
18.30-19.30	Town hall reception – Walk from Town hall to Rica Nidelven 19.30
19.45 -	Dinner at Rica Nidelven Hotel (if you are unable to join the town hall reception, meet up next to the hotel entrance.

SATURDAY 24 JUN
09.30-10.30	Keynote address: Associate Professor Vincent Hendricks, <Roskilde University>, Denmark [D1] Formal epistemology and limiting skepticism
10.30-10.45	Break — Tea, coffee and pastries served (next to auditoriums)
10.45-12.15	Ethical and Political Dimensions of ICTs in Globalization 1 [D1] Chair: Charles Ess	Information and Computing Ethics 5 [D5] chair: Johnny Søraker	Computer-based Learning and Teaching 1 [D6] Chair: Susan Stuart
10.45	Federico Gobbo: Blogs, politics and ethics: the case of Beppe Grillo	Vance Lockton: Privacy In The Workplace: A Disappearing Concept	Marvin Croy: Podcasting, Multimedia and the Teaching of Deductive Logic
11.15	Anke van Gorp: NGOs, internet and legitimacy	Karen Mather: Information Ethics as Limits on Behaviour in the Information Environment	John Hulpke: Online Ethics Debates: Computer Based Learning
11.45	May Thorseth: Worldwide deliberation and public use of reason online	Jukka Vuorinen: A misunderstanding of reason: Why proprietary software producers and crackers do not talk about the same thing?	Michele Pasin: An ontology for the description of and navigation through philosophical resources
12.15-13.00	Lunch (SIT Cafeteria)
13.00-14.00	Ethical and Political Dimensions of ICTs in Globalization 2 [D1] Chair: May Thorseth	IT and Gender Research [D5] Chair: Susan Stuart	Computer-based Learning and Teaching 2 [D6] Chair: Charles Ess
13.00	Heidi Gilstad: On scientific methodologies for evaluations of health technology.	Christina Björkman: Gender and IT Goes Second Millennium	Daniel Donato: The Learning Outcomes Problem
13.30	Johnny Hartz Søraker: A Centralized Model for the Regulation of Anonymity Online	Linda Vigdor: Education and technology: A prison of enframement or a new practice and possibility of Being?	Jean Sallantin: Computational Philosophy: H/SP
14.00-14.15	Break Tea and coffee served (next to auditoriums)
14.15-15.00	Closing Plenary [D1]

All plenary sessions in Auditorium D1, parallel sessions in auditoriums D1, D5 and D6 (from left to right).


* Thanks to Fay Sudweeks and the catac’06 conference for the program template.