CFP: Workshop on Philosophy and Ethics of Social Reality (SOCREAL 2013)

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 ([email protected]). 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 web-site of SOCREAL 2010 located at:

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

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 web-site.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 24  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 ([email protected])

Further information will be made available shortly at the workshop
web-site to be located at: