The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information

Editorial Board

FRED ADAMS is Professor of Cognitive Science and Philosophy, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delaware. He has also taught at Augustana College, Central Michigan University, Lawrence University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A sample of his publications include the co-edited book Reflections on Philosophy, and authored or co-authored articles, "Cognitive Trying," "Causal Contents," "Fodorian Semantics," and "Vacuous Singular Terms."

G. ALDO ANTONELLI is Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine. He has worked in applications of logic to artificial intelligence and game theory, non-well-founded set theories, modal logic, and philosophy of language and mathematics.

THIERRY BARDINI is Associate Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Montréal (Québec, Canada). He holds a degree in agronomy (ENSA Montpellier, 1986) and a Ph.D. in sociology (Paris X, 1991). Since 1992, He has conducted research on the sociological history of computing, with a special emphasis on the genesis of personal computing.

MARK A. BEDAU received his Ph. D. in Philosophy from University of California at Berkeley in 1985. He is currently Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Adjunct Professor of Systems Science at Portland State University, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Artificial Life (MIT Press). He has published extensively on both scientific and philosophical aspects of artificial life.

CRISTINA BICCHIERI is Professor of Philosophy and Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the author of Rationality and Coordination (Cambridge University Press, 1993, 1997), and co-author of The Dynamics of Norms (Cambridge University Press, 1998), The Logic of Strategy (Oxford University Press, 2000) and Knowledge, Belief, and Strategic Interaction (Cambridge University Press, 1992). She has published extensively in Philosophy, AI, Game Theory and the Social Ssciences. Her web site is: http://www.phil.cmu.edu/faculty/bicchieri/

JONATHAN COHEN is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of several articles in philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. Much of his recent work has concerned the metaphysics of color.

TIMOTHY COLBURN has been Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota-Duluth since 1988. Prior to that, he was principal research scientist for Honeywell, Inc. He is the author of Philosophy and Computer Science (Explorations in Philosophy Series, M.E. Sharpe, 2000) and co-editor of Program Verification: Fundamental Issues in Computer Science (Studies in Cognitive Systems Series, Kluwer, 1993).

WESLEY COOPER is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is the author of The Unity of William James's Thought (Vanderbilt University Press, 2002), and the chief administrator of Alberta MOO (http://www.arts.ualberta.ca:3000).

B. JACK COPELAND is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing. He works in mathematical and philosophical logic, cognitive science, and the history and foundations of computing, and has numerous articles in the journals, including Journal of Philosophy, Mind, Analysis, and Scientific American. He is author of Artificial intelligence: a philosophical introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993, second edition forthcoming) and is currently writing and editing several books on Turing, including one on Turing's Automatic Computing Engine, and is editing a volume for Oxford University Press entitled Colossus: the first electronic computer. His edited volume Logic and reality: essays on the legacy of Arthur Prior appeared with Oxford University Press in 1996.

ROBERTO CORDESCHI is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Salerno, Italy. He is the author of several publications in the history of cybernetics and in the epistemological issues of cognitive science and artificial intelligence, including The discovery of the artificial (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2002).

CHARLES ESS is Professor of Philosophy and Religion, and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Drury University. Ess has received awards for teaching excellence and scholarship, as well as a national award for his work in hypermedia. He has published in interdisciplinary ethics, hypertext and democratization, history of philosophy, feminist biblical studies, contemporary Continental philosophy, computer resources for humanists, and the interactions between culture, technology, and communication.

JAMES H. FETZER is McKnight Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, and teaches on its Duluth campus. The founding editor of the book series, Studies in Cognitive Systems, and of the journal, Minds and Machines, he has published more than 20 books and 100 articles and reviews in the philosophy of science and on the theoretical foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science.

DONALD GILLIES is Professor in the Philosophy Department of King's College, London University. Since 1966, he has carried out research in the philosophy of science and mathematics. He has published 5 books, and edited a collection on 'Revolutions in Mathematics'. From the late 1980's, he has taken a particular interest in interactions between philosophy and AI, and has been involved in 4 interdisciplinary research projects in this area.

PATRICK GRIM, is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is author of The Incomplete Universe: Totality, Knowledge, and Truth (MIT Press, 1991) co-author of The Philosophical Computer: Exploratory Essays in Philosophical Computer Modeling (with Gary Mar and Paul St. Denis, MIT Press 1998), and founding co-author of 22 volumes of The Philosopher's Annual (Blackwell, Littlefield & Adams, Ridgeview, CSLI). He has published a variety of articles incorporating computer modeling in journals in philosophy, computer science, linguistics, and theoretical biology.

DEBORAH G. JOHNSON is the Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics in the Department of Technology, Culture, and Communication within the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia, USA). She is a philosopher specializing in ethical, social, and policy issues involving technology, especially issues involving computers and the Internet.

KLAUS MAINZER is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Informatics (http://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/I3) at the University of Augsburg. He is president of the German Society of Complex Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics, author and editor of several books on philosophy of science, systems science, cognitive and computer science.

DOMINIC MCIVER LOPES is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He writes on issues at the intersection of the philosophy of art and the philosophy of mind and is the author of Understanding Pictures and co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Aesthetics. He is at currently at work on a book entitled Live Wires: The Digital Arts.

BRIAN P. McLAUGHLIN is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, and Chairperson of the Department. He is the author of numerous papers in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical logic.

CARL MITCHAM is Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines. His books include Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 1994) and a co-edited (with Stephen H. Cutcliffe) volume on Visions of STS: Counterpoints in Science, Technology, and Society Studies (State University of New York Press, 2001).

BARRY SMITH is Park Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Director of the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science at the University of Leipzig. He is editor of The Monist and author of numerous articles on ontology, the history of Austro-German philosophy, and related themes.

DEREK STANOVSKY teaches at Appalachian State University in the departments of Interdisciplinary Studies and Philosophy and Religion. His research interests include feminist theory, contemporary continental philosophy, and Internet Studies and his articles have appeared in The National Women's Studies Association Journal, Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and Feminist Teacher.

ERIC STEINHART got his BS in Computer Science at Penn State and his PhD in Philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook. He teaches philosophy at William Paterson University. He works mainly on metaphysics and has written on possible worlds semantics for metaphors, the logical foundations of physical theory, theories of transfinite computation, and the nature of persons.

ALASDAIR URQUHART is Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He has published papers in non­classical logics, algebraic logic and complexity theory, and is the editor of Volume 4 of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell.

PAUL THAGARD is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His books include Coherence in Thought and Action (MIT Press, 2000) and How Scientists Explain Disease (Princeton University Press, 1999).

GRAHAM WHITE is is a lecturer in Computer Science at Queen Mary College, University of London. He has previously published on the history of logic and on the philosophy of common-sense reasoning; currently he is working on the logic of action and its computational implementation.