<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>A Call for Papers of possible interest to Sudo folk.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>The Annual Meeting of the International
Association for Computing and Philosophy</b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>University of Maryland at College Park</b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>July 15-17 2013</b></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>“Minds, Machines and Morals”</b></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align:justify">This generation has borne witness to a
veritable explosion in the use of computing technologies in almost every aspect
of life. Philosophers, scientists, and technologists/engineers have
an important role to play in addressing the foundational questions that arise
on the inexorable march toward intelligent machines. This year’s theme is
“Minds, Machines and Morals.” Questions regarding the status of machines
as moral agents and patients press on us as we envision a future filled with
self-driving cars, robotic surgeons, health-care providers, and online
computational surrogates. According to what principles should they
behave, if any? How much autonomy should they be granted, and how might
they interact with human partners before, during, and after engaging in action
accompanied by moral deliberation? What is the nature of the folk concepts
that drive our ordinary ascriptions of blame and praise? Is it necessary
for machines to be sensitive to the vicissitudes of human moral cognition in
context, and if so, how might these be computationally instantiated in systems
built to work side-by-side with people? Finally, how can traditional
moral philosophy contribute to this emerging picture of human-machine
interaction? We encourage the submission of novel work on these and
related issues. We remain especially interested in the kind of interdisciplinary
investigations that have been typical of our meetings as we seek to reach out
to cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, social psychologists and experimental
philosophers in further developing our understanding of moral minds and moral machines.
Work in other areas traditionally of interest to the computing and philosophy
community is invited as well.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><b><u>Conference
Organization and Important Dates</u></b></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align:justify">This year’s meeting will be organized somewhat
differently than past meetings. Rather than having a general call for
symposia and an associated program committee, we have decided to structure the
meeting around three distinct yet related tracks. Each track will be
organized and supervised by a dedicated chairperson who will be responsible for
managing the collection, review and dissemination of referee reports.
Track chairs will assemble their own program committees to assist in the
adjudication of submissions. In a change from previous meetings, all
submissions are to be full papers of approximately 3000 words and may not
exceed 4000 words. Improperly formatted submissions or papers that do not
meet submission guidelines will be subject to exclusion from the review
process. Information regarding formatting and submission, including
templates and other formatting aides can be found in their respective sections
on the conference website. Track descriptions and chairs are listed
below:</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u>Track I: Information and Computing Ethics</u></b></p><div style="text-align: center; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Chair: Mariarosaria Taddeo, Oxford University</b></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>In contemporary information
societies, information technologies have grown to the point of being
indispensable for many of our activities, from working to entertaining and
interacting with others and with the environment, from learning and education
to waging war. The ubiquitous deployment of such technologies raises important
ethical problems concerning their design and use. The track aims at gathering
both papers discussing conceptual frameworks to address such problems and
papers focusing on the specific ethical issues affecting contemporary
information societies. Main areas of
interest are:</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li>Security and warfare;</li>
<li>Individual rights;</li>
<li>Privacy and anonymity;</li>
<li>Personal identity;</li>
<li>Social interactions;</li>
<li>Education;</li>
<li>Economy;</li>
<li>Healthcare;</li>
<li>Technological design.</li>
</ul><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="text-align:center">Link to the track’s individual website to be
provided at a later date.</p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u> </u></b></p><p><b><u> </u></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u>Track II: Minds and Machines</u></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b> </b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Chair: Marcello Guarini, University of Windsor</b></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>The Society for
Machines and Mentality, an IACAP special interest group, is devoted to
advancing the philosophical understanding of issues involving artificial
intelligence, philosophy, and cognitive science. The Machines and
Mentality track chairs welcome philosophical papers in one or more of the
following areas:</p><div style="margin-left: 0.5in; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li>Machine Ethics</li>
<li>Moral Cognition</li>
<li>Models of mental state ascription</li>
<li>Nature of concepts</li>
<li>Philosophy of (or in) AI</li>
<li>Philosophy of (or in) the Cognitive
Sciences or Cognitive Modeling</li>
<li>Other work at the intersection of (i)
philosophy and (ii) AI or the various cognitive or psychological sciences</li>
</ul><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="text-align:center">Link to the track’s individual
website will be provided at a later date.</p><p><b><u> </u></b></p><p><b><u> </u></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u>Track III: Computing in Philosophy</u></b></p><div style="text-align: center; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Chair: Cameron Buckner, University of Houston</b></p><div style="text-align: center; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>This track is devoted
to the ways that computers can extend our ability to acquire, represent,
understand, and distribute philosophical knowledge. These include the
application of new methods of proof, representation, and visualization to
traditional philosophical questions, the use of new formal, online, and
distributed forms of research and publication, and the possibilities digital
representations of the discipline afford as a guide to metaphilosophy. We
welcome papers on the way that these new approaches are transforming philosophy
in the following areas:</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li>Computational metaphysics</li>
<li>Computational epistemology</li>
<li>Digital archives and reference works</li>
<li>Cognition and visualization</li>
<li>Computing and art</li>
<li>Computing in the philosophy of information</li>
<li>Digital pedagogy and computer-enhanced
instruction</li>
<li>Formal argument analysis and theories of
reasons</li>
<li>Social computing and distributed
philosophy</li>
<li>Computational metaphilosophy</li>
</ul><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="text-align:center">Link to the track’s individual website will be
provided at a later date.</p><div style="text-align: center; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u>Keynote Speakers</u></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b> </b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Shaun Nichols, University of Arizona</b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b> </b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>John Mikhail, Georgetown University</b></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p align="center" style="text-align:center">****</p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b> </b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Winner: <i>Covey Award</i></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b> </b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Winner: <i>Herbert A. Simon Award</i></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i> </i></b></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i> </i></b></p><div style="text-align: center; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><b><u>Important Dates</u></b></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li>Call for papers distributed: December
10th 2012</li>
<li>Final submissions entered into Easychair
website: March 15<sup>th</sup> 2013</li>
<li>Reviews due to track chairs: April 15<sup>th</sup> 2013</li>
<li>Notifications sent to authors: May 1
2013</li>
<li>Standard registration period (TBD)</li>
<li>Late registration period (TBD)</li>
<li>Conference: July 15-17 2013</li>
</ul><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><b><u> </u></b></p><p><b><u>Submission
Website</u></b></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>Submissions will be
handled through the EasyChair submission website. Details on the use of
EasyChair will be provided as this website continues to be updated.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><b><u>Resources for
Authors</u></b></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align:justify">IACAP 2013 will rely on electronic submission
of papers for review purposes. Papers must not exceed 4000 words, including all
figures, tables, and references. We will return to the authors any submissions
that exceed this limit or that diverge significantly from the format as
specified. The text of the paper should be formatted in one column, with
an overall width of 6.0 inches (15.24 cm) and length of 8.0 inches (20.32 cm).
The left margin should be 1.25 inches (3.175 cm) and the top margin 1.5 inches
(3.81 cm). The right and bottom margins will depend on whether one prints on US
letter or A4 paper.</p><div style="text-align: justify; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align:justify">The paper body should be set in 11 point type
with a vertical spacing of 12 points. Please use Times Roman typeface
throughout the text. We assume that authors will have access to LaTeX or
Word to format their documents and can use a Web browser to download style
files and upload their papers. Electronic templates for producing the
camera-ready copy are available for LaTeX and Microsoft Word. </p><div style="text-align: justify; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align:justify">Templates are accessible on the Web at:</p><p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.iacap.org/conferences/2013/for_authors/index.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.iacap.org/conferences/2013/author-resources/index.html</span></a></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align:justify">Authors who have questions about these
templates or other formatting issues should send them to <span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:pbellopgd@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">pbellopgd@gmail.com</span></a></span> by e-mail.</p><div style="text-align: justify; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align:justify">To ensure the ability to preview and print
submissions, authors must provide their manuscripts in pdf format. Papers
prepared in Word should be saved as pdf files and submitted in this format. To
support the review process, each submission must be accompanied by information
about the paper’s title and abstract, as well as the authors’ names and
physical addresses. Authors must enter this information into the submission
website. Submissions may be accompanied by online appendices that contain
data, demonstrations, instructions for obtaining source code, or the source
code itself. We encourage authors to include such appendices when they submit
papers. This material will not count in the submission’s page length.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><b><u>Presentation
Information and Guidelines</u></b></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align:justify">Each presenter will have 20 minutes for
presentation, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Data projectors will be
available – we ask presenters to bring any electronic materials (e.g.,
Powerpoint or the like) on a USB memory stick, rather than planning on using
their own computers. Presenters are encouraged to use their time to
highlight what they believe to be the most significant / interesting /
provocative (etc.) insights / findings / arguments (etc.) in their papers, with
a view towards inspiring discussion among an interdisciplinary audience – i.e.,
one including those outside the presenters’ own primary specializations and
disciplines. More formal reading of papers is certainly in order if that
is the presenter’s preference – and especially if difficult or complex arguments
are to be presented for careful critique and discussion. But again, we ask
presenters to recognize and seek to foster the strong interdisciplinarity that
has defined the CAP conferences since their inception.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><b><u>Venue:
University of Maryland, Marriott Inn and Conference Center</u></b></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align:justify">The 2013 meeting will be held starting July 15<sup>th</sup> and
ending July17th at the Marriott Inn and Conference Center. Room rates are
roughly expected to be $130 USD per night. The hotel website can be
found <span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/wasum-the-marriott-inn-and-conference-center-university-of-maryland-university-college/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">here</span></a></span>, complete with links to information about
local airports and transportation options. We will be regularly updating
the website with information for travelers, maps, area guides and information
about local attractions.</p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><b><u>Registration</u></b></p><div> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align:justify">Rates are TBD (expected to be roughly $200
USD), but will include continental breakfast, lunch selection, afternoon snack
and hot/cold beverages throughout the day.</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><p><br></p></div></div></div>
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