ECAP 2008 - 7th European Computing and Philosophy Conference

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Call for Papers

ECAP09

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, July 2-4, 2009

Chair: Jordi Vallverdú, jordi.vallverdu@uab.cat

http://ia-cap.org/ecap09/


IMPORTANT DATES

February 23rd, 2009: Abstracts submission deadline

March 16th, 2009: Notification of acceptance

April 24th, 2009: Start of wiki-debates

May 11th, 2009: Early registration deadline

July 2nd - 4th, 2009: Conference


GENERAL INFORMATION

From Thursday 2 to Saturday 4 July 2009 the European Conference on COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY (E-CAP 2009) will be held at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (very close to Barcelona city, Catalonia).

E-CAP is the European conference on Computing and Philosophy, the European affiliate of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP, president: Luciano Floridi). ECAP'09 is the seventh conference in the annual series.


PROGRAM

The conference is interdisciplinary: we invite papers from philosophy, computer science, social science and related disciplines.Computers and thinking are the two sides of the same coin: biocomputing, AI, logic, cognition, robotethics, IT, ontology, history, robotics, affective computing, infoethics, epistemology, simulations, computer proofs, among others, are expressions of the conceptual crossroads between researchers all around the world. E-CAP09 will promote scholarly dialogue on all aspects of the computational & informational turn and the use of computers in the service of philosophy.


CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Kevin Warwick (U. Reading)
http://www.kevinwarwick.com/
Cybernetics

Roderic Guigó (UPF)
http://genome.imim.es/~rguigo/
Biocomputing

Francesc Subirada (BSC), Associate Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center,
http://www.bsc.es/
Supercomputing


RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS

We call for papers that cover topics pertaining to computing and philosophy from the following list (but not restricted to that list):

- Metaphysics (Distributed Processing, Emergent Properties, Formal Ontology, Network Structures, etc)

- Philosophy of Computer Science

- Robotics, AI, and Ambient Intelligence

- Human-Machine Interaction and Explanation Capabilities

- Philosophy of Information and Information Technology

- Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Problem of Consciousness

- Computational Linguistics

- Computer-based Learning and Teaching Strategies and Resources & The Impact of Distance Learning on the Teaching of Philosophy and Computing

- IT and Gender Research, Feminist Technoscience Studies

- Information and Computing Ethics: RobotEthics, Infoethics

- Biological Information, Artificial Life, Biocomputation

- Electronic Art

- Complexity and Emergency

- Imaging and Knowledge

- New Models of Logic Software

- Models & Simulations Epistemology

- Synthetic emotions

- Computer & Gender Studies


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors should submit an electronic version of an extended abstract (total word count approximately 1000 words).

The file should also contain a 350 word abstract that will be used for the conference web site/booklet. Each abstract should indicate a first choice for the track to which it is submitted, as well as a second choice for track.

The submissions should be made electronically, either as PDF, or in rtf or Word format to ECAP09@gmail.com.


TRACKS (and track chairs):

I. Philosophy of Information: TBC

II. Philosophy of Computer Science: Raymond Turner.

III. Computer and Information Ethics: Johnny Søraker and Alison Adam

IV. Computational Approaches to the Mind: Ruth Hagengruber

V. IT and Cultural Diversity: Jutta Weber, Charles Ess

VI. Crossroads: David Casacuberta

VII. Robotics, AI & Ambient Intelligence: Thomas Roth-Berghofer

VIII.Biocomputing, Evolutionary and Complex Systems: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic

IX. Logic and Computation: TBC

X. E-learning, E-science and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: Annamaria Carusi

XI. Technological Singularity and Acceleration Studies: Amnon Eden


NOTE: A BOOK WILL BE PUBLISHED WITH THE BEST PAPER CONTRIBUTIONS.


REGISTRATION

Registration fees (in Euros) before/after 11 May 2009:

Standard: 250/300

Phd Students: 150/200

Students: 80/120

IACAP members: 150/200


You can become member of IACAP for only U.S. $30 ($10 for students). Please, if you are interested go to the IACAP membership page:
http://www.ia-cap.org/membership.php


ACCOMMODATION

To book accommodation, please visit the official conference web site.

Atlhough the campus has own accommodation facilities (hotels), the UAB’s close situation (and good public transport service connections) from Barcelona may open the possibility to stay in Barcelona city.


ORGANIZATION

Jordi Vallverdú, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona , Catalonia (Program chair)



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Philip Brey, University of Twente
Bernd Carsten-Stahl, De Montfort University
David Casacuberta, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Mälardalen University
Amnon Eden, University of Essex
Luciano Floridi, University of Hertfordshire - University of Oxford
Ruth Hagengruber, Universität Paderborn
Johnny Hartz Søraker, University of Twente
Thomas Roth-Berghofer, German Research Center for AI DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern
Raymond Turner, University of Essex
Yorick Wilks, University of Oxford


The congress will receive the organization support of TECNOCOG (UAB), SETE (UAB) and Epson Foundation-BCN.



VENUE

The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona's central campus is in Bellaterra
(Cerdanyola del Vallès), 20km outside Barcelona, between Sabadell and
Sant Cugat del Vallès. The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona was founded
in 1968. The founders aimed to establish four principles of autonomy:
freedom to select teaching staff, admission available to all students
(but with a limited number), freedom to create its own study plans and
freedom to administrate the University's capital. It is therefore a
young university, but in its short history it has moved forward at a
rapid pace.

http://www.uab.es/servlet/Satellite/About-the-UAB-1101231886460.html

E-CAP conferences are organized under the supervision of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP). Website: http://ia-cap.org/

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