[agents] SOCREAL 2010: The Reminder

[Guido Boella]

[Apologies for cross-posting]
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SOCREAL 2010: The Reminder *Deadline: 1 NOV. 2009*
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Second International Workshop on
Philosophy and Ethics of Social Reality

27 - 28 March 2010
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
http://www.hucc.hokudai.ac.jp/~k15696/home/sr10/
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ABOUT SOCREAL 2010

In the past two decades, a number of logics and game theoretical
analyses have been proposed and combined 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.

SOCREAL 2010 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 1 November 2009 to CAEP (caep at let.hokudai.ac.jp).
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 time for presentation will be 55 minutes
including discussion. 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.

INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam and Stanford University)
Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University, China)

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. Selected papers
from the workshop will also be published later in an issue of
The Journal of Applied Ethics and Philosophy after an appropriate
period for revision and another round of peer-review.

GRANTS

A limited number of grants of 20,000 to 50,000 Japanese yen
(approximately equivalent to 150 to 375 Euros) will be available for
postgraduate students and non-tenured scholars on a competitive basis.
Priority is given to overseas students and scholars who present papers
at the workshop. Anyone who wishes to apply for the grant should
submit the completed Grant Application Form available at SOCREAL
web-site:
http://www.hucc.hokudai.ac.jp/~k15696/home/sr10/

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 		    1 	November 2009
Notification of Acceptance:        	   	   15 	December 2009
Workshop:             		       		27-28 	March 2010

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam and Stanford University)
Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam and Stanford University)
Jose Carmo (Universidade da Madeira, Portugal)
Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
Jun Miyoshi (Kanto Gakuin University, Japan)
Yuko Murakami (Tohoku University, Japan)
Yasuo Nakayama (Osaka 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

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

CONTACT

Shunzo Majima (caep at let.hokudai.ac.jp)

Further information will be available at SOCREAL 2010 website:
http://www.hucc.hokudai.ac.jp/~k15696/home/sr10/