Detailed Programme

Dr Mark Bishop (Goldsmiths College London)

Thursday 9th April 2009

Time	Session

8.30-09:00	8:30 Registration (Conference Centre Foyer) 08:45 Daily Announcements (James Watt Auditorium)

09:00-10:30	09:00 Opening and Introduction by Mark Bishop. 09:10 Blomberg O. Do socio-technical systems cognise? 09:50 Bryson J. Crude, Cheesy, Second-Rate Consciousness

10:30-11:00	Coffee Break

11:00-13:00	11:00 Colombo M. Does Embeddedness Tell Against Computationalism? A Tale of Bees and Sea Hares 11:40 Glass D. Inference to the Best Explanation: a comparison of approaches 12:20 Jorand O. Noise and bias for free : PERPLEXUS as a material platform for embodied thought-experiments.

13:00-14:00	Lunch (included in Registration fee)

14:00-15:30	14:00 Pease A, Crook P, Smaill A, Colton S, Guhe M. Towards a computational model of embodied mathematical language 14:45 Nicolaidis M. Simulating Time

15:30-16:00	Coffee Break

16:00-17:00	16:00 Tonkens R. Ethical Implementation: A Challenge for Machine Ethics 16:40 Torrance, S. Oral response to paper by Tonkens R.

17:00-18:30	Dinner (3 courses, available at venue at extra charge)

18:30-19:30	AISB Keynote Talk: Why Robots must be Relativists by Alan Bundy


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