International Association for Computing and Philosophy

Mission of The International Association for Computing and Philosophy exists to advance insightful discourse and research on all parts of the computational and educational turn, and on the utilization of data and correspondence advances in the administration of rationality. The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) is a professional, philosophical association emerging from a history of conferences that began in 1986. Adopting its mission from these conferences, the IACAP exists in order to promote scholarly dialogue on all aspects of the computational/informational turn and the use of computers in the service of philosophy.

Regions of examination have included: Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive Science, Artificial Life/Computer Modeling in Biology, Data and Computer Ethics, Computer Mediated Communication, Culture and Society, Distance Education and Electronic Pedagogy, Electronic Publishing, Logic, Metaphysics (Distributed Processing, Emergent Properties, Formal Ontology, Network Structures, and so forth.), Online Resources for Philosophy, Theory of Information, Theory of Information Technology, Robotics, and Virtual Reality.

The part of the IACAP is to encourage a worldwide interchanges system for those keen on registering and reasoning. To this end, it supports a progression of universal meetings and this creating site. The IACAP maintains a friendship with the American Philosophical Association through the liaison of the APA's Committee on Philosophy and Computers. It is currently based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The United States of America (United States).