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7th Workshop on the Philosophy of Information

The Seventh Workshop on the Philosophy of Information, organised by the Society for the Philosophy of Information, Phyllis Illari (Science and Technology Studies, UCL) and Giuseppe Primiero (Computer Science, Middlesex University) with the support of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science will be held at UCL London on 30-31 March 2015 with the theme “Conceptual challenges of data in science and technology”. A programme of invited and contributed speakers, together with abstracts and logistic information is now available at

http://socphilinfo.org/workshops/wpi7

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2017 DHST prize for young scholars

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY/
DIVISION OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (IUHPST/DHST)
2017 DHST PRIZE FOR YOUNG SCHOLAR

SCHEME
The International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and
Technology, Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST) invites
submissions for the fourth DHST Prize for Young Scholars, to be presented in
2017. Initiated at the 22nd International Congress of History of Science in
2005 held in Beijing, the DHST Prize is awarded by the IUHPST/DHST every four
years to up to five young historians of science and technology for outstanding
doctoral dissertations, completed within last four years.

The 2017 DHST Prize does not specify distinct categories, but submissions must
be on the history of science or technology in any part of the world. The Award
Committee will endeavor to maintain the broadest coverage of subjects,
geographical areas, chronology and civilizations (African, American, Asian,
Islamic, Western and Ancient Civilisations, and others not included in the
above list).

Each Prize consists of a certificate, assistance with travel and accommodation
expenditures to the IUHPST/DHST Congress in Rio de Janeiro in August 2017 and a
waiver of registration fee. The winner of a prize whose thesis is relative to
Islamic science is also awarded the Ihsanoglu Prize given by ISAR Foundation.

AWARD COMMITTEE
The Committee is comprised of the DHST President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary
General, and distinguished specialists in specific fields.

COMPETITION CALENDAR
Submission deadline: 31 August 2016
Qualification examination and preliminary selection: September 2016
Award Committee online meeting: October-November 2016
Approval by DHST Council: December 2016
Award Ceremony: August 2017

CONDITIONS and APPLICATION
Eligibility: Applicants must have a doctoral degree in the history of science
or technology awarded no earlier than July 2012.
Language: Any dissertation in a language other than English must be accompanied
by a detailed summary in English of no more than 20 pages.
Application procedure: Applicants must submit online at:
http://hpdst.gr/youngscholarsprize, where they can also find additional
procedural details.

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3rd CfP Computability in Europe

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (incl. deadline extension due to popular demand)

3rd CALL FOR PAPERS:
COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2015: Evolving Computability
Bucharest, Romania
June 29 – July 3
http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/

IMPORTANT DATES:

EXTENDED Submission Deadline for LNCS: 21 January 2015
Notification of authors: 9 March 2015
Deadline for final revisions: 6 April 2015

CiE 2015 is the 11-th conference organized by CiE (Computability in Europe), a European association of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and their underlying significance for the real world. Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006), Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponta Delgada (2010), Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), Milan (2013) and Budapest (2014)

Evolution of the universe, and us within it, invite a parallel evolution in understanding. The CiE agenda – fundamental and engaged – targets the extracting and developing of computational models basic to current challenges. From the origins of life, to the understanding of human mentality, to the characterising of quantum randomness – computability theoretic questions arise in many guises. The CiE community, this coming year meeting for the first time in Bucharest, carries forward the search for coherence, depth and new thinking across this rich and vital field of research.

In all cases we are looking for fundamental and theoretical submissions. In line with other conferences in this series, CiE 2015 has a broad scope and provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical and practical issues in Computability with an emphasis on new paradigms of computation and the development of their mathematical theory.

We particularly invite papers that build bridges between different parts of the research community.

For topics covered by the conference, please visit
http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/topics.html

AWARDS:

The best student paper award is presented to the author(s) of the best paper, as selected by the PC, written solely by student author(s). This award is sponsored by Springer.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES:

CiE 2015 has received funding from ASL (Association for Symbolic Logic) and EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science) that allows students who are members of ASL or EATCS and want to attend CiE 2015 to apply for travel funds or a reduction of the early registration fee.

Preference will be given to presenters of accepted papers.

Applications for ASL travel grants have to be addressed directly to ASL, with a strict deadline of March 28, 2015.

Applications for EATCS travel grants have to be sent to cie2015@fmi.unibuc.ro prior to the early registration deadline.

TUTORIAL SPEAKERS

* John Reif (Duke Unversity)

* Steve Simpson (Pennsylvania State University)

PLENARY SPEAKERS

* Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge)

* Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest, Public Lecture)

* Pawel Gawrychowski (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik)

* Julia Knight (University of Notre Dame)

* Anca Muscholl (Universite Bordeaux)

* Gheorghe Paun (Romanian Academy)

* Alexander Razborov (University of Chicago and Steklov Mathematical Institute)

* Vlatko Vedral (University of Oxford)

SPECIAL SESSIONS on

* Representing streams (Organizers: Joerg Endrullis and Dimtri Hendriks)

* Automata, logic and infinite games (Organizers: Dietmar Berwanger and Ioana Leustean)

* Reverse mathematics (Organizers: Damir Dzhafarov and Alberto Marcone)

* Classical computability theory (Organizers: Marat Arslanov and Steffen Lempp)

* Bio-inspired computation (Organizers: Andrei Paun and Petr Sosik)

* History and philosophy of computing (Organizers: Christine Proust and Marco Benini)

The speakers of the special sessions may be find at http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/sessions.html

The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE consists of:

* Marat Arslanov (Kazan) * Jeremy Avigad (Pittsburgh)
* Veronica Becher (Buenos Aires) * Arnold Beckmann (Swansea)
* Laurent Bienvenu (Paris) * Alessandra Carbone (Paris)
* Gabriel Ciobanu (Iasi) * S Barry Cooper (Leeds)
* Laura Crosilla (Leeds) * Liesbeth De Mol (Ghent)
* Walter Dean (Warwick) * Volker Diekert (Stuttgart)
* Damir Dzhafarov (Storrs, Connecticut) * Peter van Emde Boas (Amsterdam) * Rachel Epstein (Harvard) * Johanna Franklin (Hempstead, NY) * Neil Ghani (Glasgow) * Joel David Hamkins (New York) * Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht) * Emmanuel Jeandel (LORIA) * Natasha Jonoska (Tampa, FL) * Antonina Kolokolova (St.John’s, NL)
* Antonin Kucera (Prague) * Oliver Kutz (Magdeburg)
* Benedikt Loewe (Hamburg & Amsterdam) * Jack Lutz (Ames, IA) * Florin Manea (Kiel) * Alberto Marcone (Udine) * Radu Mardare (Aalborg) * Joe Miller (Madison, WI)
* Russell Miller (Flushing, NY) * Mia Minnes (La Jolla, CA)
* Victor Mitrana (Bucharest, co-chair) * Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Manchester) * Dag Normann (Oslo)
* Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (London) * Anne Smith (St Andrews)
* Mariya Soskova (Sofia, co-chair) * Susan Stepney (York) * Paul Spirakis (Patras & Liverpool)
* Jacobo Toran (Ulm) * Marius Zimand (Towson, MD)

The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE cordially invites all researchers (European and non-European) in computability related areas to submit their papers (in PDF format, maximum 10 pages using the LNCS style) for presentation at CiE 2015.

The submission site
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2015
is open.

For submission instructions consult
http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/submission.html

The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published by LNCS, Springer Verlag.

The CONFERENCE POSTER can be downloaded from http://fmi.unibuc.ro/CiE2015/images/CiE_Poster.jpg

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Philosophy & Technology (Springer) new supplements series

Giuseppe Primiero (vice-president of the HaPoC Commission) has been nominated member of the Executive Editorial Board of the Journal Philosophy & Technology (Springer) for the Area of Philosophy of Computer Science & Technology. The Journal will inaugurate a new supplements series, for issues entirely related to each of the areas of competence in the Executive Editorial Board. If you have plans to edit a collections of papers in the area of History/Philosophy of Computer Science, please do contact Giuseppe at G.Primiero@mdx.ac.uk to discuss P&T as a possible venue for publication!

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CFP: Workshop on Logic and Information (5th UNILOG)

Workshop at the Fifth World Conference on Universal Logic
25-30 June 2015
University of Istanbul
http://www.socphilinfo.org/news/cfp/469-workshop-logic-and-information-5th-unilog

In this workshop we want to approach the relation between logic and information from the perspective of the philosophy of information, as well as from a logical perspective, and draw attention to a number of questions that have historically received attention, or have only been individuated in recent years. These include the possibility of a genuine informational conception of logical consequence, the relation between informational and computational approaches, the relation between information and logics of questions, and the difference between (what van Benthem calls) implicit informational stances in logic like that of intuitionist logic and explicit stances like that of epistemic logic.

Keynote speaker
Luciano Floridi (OII, Oxford University)

Call for abstracts
Extended abstracts (1000-1500 words) should be sent via e-mail before November 15th 2014 to: workshop@logicandinformation.be

Organisers
The workshop is hosted by Universal Logic 2015 and organised in collaboration with the Society for the Philosophy of Information.
Workshop chairs are: Patrick Allo and Giuseppe Primiero