International Association for Computing and Philosophy

The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) is a professional, philosophical association emerging from a history of conferences on computing and philosophy that began in 1986. The IACAP was officially founded in 2004. It adopts its mission from these conferences in order to promote scholarly dialogue on all aspects of the computational/informational 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 Moor, Nelson Pole, and Saul Traiger.

Awards

IACAP hands out two awards at their yearly meetings: The Covey Award and The Herbert A. Simon Award.

The Covey Award

2024: Johannes Lenhard (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau)
2023: Oron Shagrir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
2022: Shannon Vallor (University of Edinburgh)
2021: Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)
2020: No award
2019: John Weckert (Charles Sturt University)
2018: Deborah G. Johnson (University of Virginia)
2017: Raymond Turner (University of Essex)
2016: Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
2015: William J. Rapaport (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)
2014: Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
2013: Margaret Boden (University of Sussex)
2012: Luciano Floridi (University of Hertfordshire)
2011: Terrell Bynum (Southern Connecticut State University)
2010: John R. Searle (University of California, Berkeley)
2009: Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University)

The Herbert A. Simon Award

2024: Corey Maley (Purdue University)
2023: Kathleen Creel (Northeastern University)
2022: Björn Lundgren (Utrecht University)
2021: Carissa Véliz (University of Oxford)
2020: No award
2019: Juan M. Durán (Delft University of Technology)
2018: Thomas C. King (Oxford Internet Institute)
2017: Andrea Scarantino (Georgia State University)
2016: Marcin Milkowski (The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
2015: Michael Rescorla (University of California-Santa Barbara)
2014: Gualterio Piccinini (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
2013: Judith Simon (University of Vienna)
2012: Patrick Allo (Vrije Universiteit Brussels)
2011: John P. Sullins (Sonoma State)
2010: Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Hertfordshire; University of Oxford)