Tony Beavers is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Digital Humanities Lab, The University of Evansville, USA. Tony works in the developing area of computational philosophy, an approach to the discipline that involves using computers to make philosophical discoveries that are not readily available with traditional argumentative methods and that also tests philosophical theories for computational tractability. Most recently, his efforts have involved showing that ethics may be more easily computable than might first appear and that this may well compromise our sense of values. Tony also works on network models that attempt to show how standard databases can be transformed into predictive mechanisms to help humanists make textual and historical discoveries.

Tony has lectured widely on these topics in the United States and Europe. He was also a Digital Humanities Fellow at Indiana University, 2008-2009, a fellow at the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities at UCLA in 2010 and a co-planner for a second NEH Institute at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte in 2011. Anthony is the recipient of the 2012 World Technology Award in Ethics for his study of how machine ethics relates to our moral sensibilities. He recently served a term as President of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy.

Chair: Professor Harold Short, University of Western Sydney.

Location: University Club Auditorium