CFP: 3rd International Workshop on Formal Ethical Agents and Robots (FEAR 2026)

Call for Papers and Abstracts - FEAR 2026   We invite submissions to the 3rd International Workshop on Formal Ethical Agents and Robots (FEAR 2026), taking place at the University of Manchester (UK) on the 2nd-3rd of November 2026.   FEAR aims to bring together researchers working on formal aspects of ethical reasoning and behavior in artificial agents.   We welcome submissions of regular papers (up to 16 pages) describing completed research, or abstracts (up to 2 pages) providing a high-level description of research published, or submitted/intended for publication, elsewhere.    The submission deadline is August 3, 2026. Submission instructions and more information about the workshop can be found on this webpage:  https://fearworkshop.github.io/2026/workshop/

 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Logics for moral and ethical decision-making
• Knowledge representation of ethical theories and ethically salient information
• Computational modelling of morality 
• Specification and verification of ethical reasoning and behavior 
• Formal modelling of ethical accountability

If you have questions, please feel free to contact any member of the core organizing team: Louise Dennis (University of Manchester), Marija Slavkovik (University of Bergen), Marina De Vos(University of Bath), Raynaldio Limarga (University of Manchester), Sarah Moth-Lund Christensen (University of Sheffield), Tuva Bardal (University of Warwick).