Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand

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Jack Copeland’s expertise lies in cognitive science, mathematical logic, and philosophy of computation. In 2020 he was awarded the Te Apārangi Humanities Aronui Medal ‘for research into the foundations, philosophy and history of computing’. The citation for the American Philosophical Association’s Barwise Prize, awarded in 2017, describes him as ‘the world-wide expert on Alan Turing and a leading philosopher of AI, computing and information’. He received the Covey Award from the International Association of Computing and Philosophy in 2016 and his name has been on the IT History Society Honor Roll since 2017. ​Jack was John Findlay Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Boston University in 2018 and the Royden Davis Visiting Chair in Psychology at Georgetown University, Washington DC, in 2012. He is Co-Director and Permanent International Fellow of the Turing Centre at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zürich, and Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland. Jack is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, where he is Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing.