1st CFP SOCREAL 2013: 3rd International Workshop on Philosophy and Ethics of Social Reality, Sapporo, Japan

[Thomas Ågotnes]

                 The First Call for Papers

                        SOCREAL 2013

              Third International Workshop on 
          Philosophy and Ethics of Social Reality

                    25 - 27 October 2013
             Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

                    Under the Auspices of
       Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy (CAEP)
       Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University
                              and
    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas: 
    Prediction and Decision Making (23120002) of the Ministry 
   of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)


In the past two and a half decades, a number of attempts have been made
in order to model various aspects of social interaction among agents 
including individual agents, organizations, and individuals representing 
organizations. The aim of SOCREAL Workshop is to bring together 
researchers working on diverse aspects of such interaction in logic, 
philosophy, ethics, computer science, cognitive science and related fields 
in order to share issues, ideas, techniques, and results.

The first SOCREAL Workshop was held on 9 - 10 March 2007, and the second
SOCREAL Workshop was held on 27 - 28 March 2010. Building upon the success 
of SOCREAL 2007 and 2010, its third edition, SOCREAL 2013, will be held
on 25 - 27 October 2013.

SOCREAL 2013 will consist of lectures by invited speakers and presentations 
of submitted papers. Researchers from various fields, including logic, 
philosophy, ethics, computer science, cognitive science are hereby invited 
to submit an extended abstract (up to two thousand words) by 10 June 2013 
to CAEP (caep at let.hokudai.ac.jp). Each abstract will be peer-reviewed
by the program committee.

The abstract should be written in English and sent as an attachment in pdf 
format. Each abstract should include a title, names and contact details 
of all the authors. It is requisite for at least one of the author(s) 
of each accepted paper to attend the workshop and present the paper. 
The working language of SOCREAL Workshop is English.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

  * language (or communication) as part of social reality,
  * speech acts (or communicative acts) as what shape social reality,
  * (moral) commitments (and conflicts) in social interaction,
  * logic and game theory as tools for studying social reality,
  * (organized) collective agency,
  * norms and normative systems,
  * social institutional facts and their dynamics,
  * social choice,
  * rationality in social interaction.

You can learn what SOCREAL Workshop is like from the website of SOCREAL 
2010 located at:

    http://www.hucc.hokudai.ac.jp/~k15696/home/sr10/ .


INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Thomas Agotnes (University of Bergen, Norway, and Southwest University, China)
Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam,  and Stanford University)
Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Berislav Zarnic (University of Split, Croatia)


PUBLICATION

A printed booklet containing the abstracts of all the accepted papers 
will be available at the workshop. 

On-line proceedings containing the papers and the presentation slides 
presented at the workshop will be made available after the workshop. 

Authors of the presented papers will also be invited to submit 
(the revised version of) the full papers for publication in an issue 
of The Journal of Applied Ethics and Philosophy after the workshop.
The papers should be written according to the notes to contributors
of the journal, and will be peer-reviewed. Further particularities 
and instructions will be announced after the workshop.


GRANTS

A limited number of grants of 20,000 to 40,000 yen will be available 
for postgraduate students and non-tenured scholars who present papers 
at the workshop on a competitive basis. Priority is given to overseas 
students and scholars. Anyone who wishes to apply for the grant should 
submit the completed Grant Application Form which will be made available
shortly at the workshop website.


IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 		   10 	June      2013
Notification of Acceptance:        	   	   15 	July      2013
Deadline for Grant Application:                    10   September 2013
Workshop:             		       		25-27 	October   2013


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Thomas Agotnes (University of Bergen, Norway, and Southwest University, China)
Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University, Japan)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Thomas Agotnes (University of Bergen, Norway, and Southwest University, China)
Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Stanford 
  University, USA)
Jose Carmo (Universidade da Madeira, Portugal)
Mamoru Kaneko (Waseda University, Japan)
Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
Yuko Murakami (Tohoku University, Japan)
Yasuo Nakayama (Osaka University, Japan)
Okada Mitsuhiro (Keio University, Japan)
Manuel Rebuschi (Nancy University, France)
Nobuyuki Takahashi (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Allard Tamminga (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands)
Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Berislav Zarnic (University of Split, Croatia)

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Koji Nakatogawa (Hokkaido University)
Shunzo Majima (Hokkaido University)
Yoshihiko Ono (Hokkaido University)
Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)


CONTACT

Tomoyuki Yamada (yamada at let.hokudai.ac.jp)

Further information will be made available shortly at the workshop 
website to be located at:

    http://www.hucc.hokudai.ac.jp/~k15696/home/sr13/ .




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Thomas Ågotnes
Department of Information Science and Media Studies
University of Bergen
P.O. Box 7802, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
Tel: (+47) 55584105  Fax: (+47) 55589149
Thomas.Agotnes at infomedia.uib.no
http://folk.uib.no/nmita/