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Past Scholarly Activity
Listed in reverse chronological order. Dr. Beavers is the presumed scholar except where stated otherwise. Underlined items are topically on DANs. Other items are either DAN-inspired or represent exploratory work on its way to more formal expressions.
Keynote Address: Artificial Intelligence and the Changing Landscape of Educational Technology. Fall Faculty Conference, College of Southern Idaho. Delivered in Two Parts: 1) Information-Transfer vs. Attention-Directing Models of Cognitive Development, August 13th, 2024. 2) Artificial Intelligence and the Changing Landscape of Educational Technology, August 14th, 2024.
Research Presentation: Modeling Cognition with Cellular Computing: On the Epistemic Importance of Seeing What You're Doing. Undergraduate Cognitive Science Student Organization, Indiana University, April 3rd, 2024.
Research Presentation: Changing Paradigms in Cognitive Science: Emerging Implications from Research with Dynamic Associative Networks. Cognitive Science Research Group, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University, March 18th, 2024.
Research Presentation: Some Cognitive Properties of Elementary Networks. Cognitive Science Research Group, Indiana University, October 1st, 2022.
Fellow: Center for Philosophy of Science, The University of Pittsburgh, since Fall 2021.
Journal Article: A Brief Introduction to the Philosophy of Information. Logeion – Information Philosophy 3.1 (2016): 16-28.
Keynote Address: (Why) Does Computational Philosophy Belong in the Digital Humanities? Digital Humanities Australasia 2014: Expanding Horizons, The University of Western Australia, Perth, March 21st, 2014.
Keynote Address: The Digital Revolution and Research in the Humanities. The College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Informatics, Northern Kentucky University, January 23rd, 2014.
Book Chapter: Exploring Wolfram’s Notion of Computational Irreducibility with a Two-Dimensional Cellular Automaton (with Dee Reisinger, Taylor Martin, Mason Blankenship, Christopher Harrison, andJesse Squires). In Irreducibility and Computational Equivalence: Wolfram Science 10 Years After the Publication of A New Kind of Science, edited by Hector Zenil, (Springer, Emergence, Complexity and Computation Book Series, 2013), 263-272.
Commentary: Alan Turing: Mathematical Mechanist. In Alan Turing: His Work and Impact, edited by S. Barry Cooper and Jan van Leeuwen (Elsevier Science, 2012), 482-485. A redacted version of this article appeared as Practically Turing. Cybertalk Magazine 3 (2013): 32-33.
Conference Presentation: Computational Philosophy: Its Place in the Digital Humanities and Its Philosophical Payoffs. Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 23rd, 2013.
Book Chapter: 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), 85-104.
Book Chapter: 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), 347-364.
Colloquium Presentation: (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.
Colloquium Presentation: Complexity and Cognition: Circuits not Software. Crick Lecture in the Cognitive and Neural Sciences, The University of Evansville, 2012.
Edited Collection: Computational Philosophy, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior, 2012.
Journal Article: Noesis and the Encyclopedic Internet Vision. Synthese 182.2 (2011): 315-333.
Journal Article: Recent Developments in Computing and Philosophy. Journal for the General Philosophy of Science 42.2 (2011): 385-397.
Research Presentation: 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.
Instructional Lecture: 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.
Workshop Presentation: 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.
Research Report: Typicality Effects and Resilience in Evolving Dynamic Networks. In FS-10-03, The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Press, 2010.
Conference Presentation: 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, Simulations and Their Philosophical Implications, Carnegie Mellon University, July 24th-26th, 2010.
Fellowship: National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities, also sponsored by the National Science Foundation Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), University of California, Los Angeles, August 15th-27th, 2010.
Conference Presentation: 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 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.
Fellowship: Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008-2009. Fellowship undertaken as a visiting scholar in the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University. The project was to explore dynamic associative networks for automatic document classification across large corpora, the representation of philosophy in all of its forms online, as part of the Noesis Search Engine Project.
Colloquium Presentation: Domain-Specific Search and the Encyclopedic Internet Vision. Spring 2008 Talk Series on Networks and Complex Systems, Indiana University, February 25th, 2008.
Conference Presentation: Intentionality and Association. The 3rd Annual Computing and Philosophy Conference, Oregon State University, August 2003.
Journal Article: Phenomenology and Artificial Intelligence. In CyberPhilosophy: The Intersection of Philosophy and Computing, edited by James H. Moor and Terrell Ward Bynum (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002), 66-77. Also in Metaphilosophy 33.1/2 (2002): 70-82.
Magazine Article: Peter Suber, Noesis: Is It a Library with Built-in Searching or a Search Engine with a Built-in Library? Syllabus Magazine, March, 2002.
Book Review: Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction by Luciano Floridi. Ethics and Information Technology 3.4 (2002), 299-301. Also in Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, American Philosophical Association, (2001).
Conference Presentation: Information Metaphysics, Naturalism and the Computational Turn. The 1st Annual Computing and Philosophy Conference, Oregon State University, January 2001.
Conference Presentation: Noesis: From Search Engine/Index to Information Network. The 15th Annual Computing and Philosophy Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2000.
Interview: Bill Uzgalis, Searching Phenomenology and Cyberspace: An Interview with Anthony Beavers. Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, American Philosophical Association, Volume 00.1 (2000).
Research Report: Noesis: Philosophical Research Online: An Experiment in Progress. Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, American Philosophical Association, Volume 98.2 (1999).
Conference Presentation: Managing Quality Content on the Web: A Preview. Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Boston, December, 1999.
Panelist: Philosophy on the Internet: Questions of Standards (Panel). Special Session Arranged by the APA Board of Officers, Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Boston, December, 1999.
Research Report: Evaluating Search Engine Models for Scholarly Purposes: A Report from the Internet Applications Laboratory. D-Lib Magazine: The Magazine of Digital Library Research, The Corporation for National Research Initiatives, December (1998).
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