[FOM] CFP: Logic, Games and Philosophy

[tulenhei@mappi.helsinki.fi]

Dear Professor Martin Davis,

I would wish to propose the Call for Papers attached below to be published 
on the FOM list. 


With kind regards, 

sincerely, 

  Tero Tulenheimo
  Researcher, Ph. D.
  University of Helsinki, Finland

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WITH APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS
 
 
Call for Papers


LOGIC, GAMES AND PHILOSOPHY: FOUNDATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 

Prague International Colloquium 

28 September – 1 October 2004, Prague, Czech Republic 


Organising Committee:

+ Ondrej Majer (Prague)
+ Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (Helsinki)
+ Tero Tulenheimo (Helsinki)

Program Committee: 	
		
Gabriel Sandu (Chair) (Helsinki)		
Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam, Stanford)	
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (Helsinki)		
Jaroslav Peregrin	(Prague)
Shahid Rahman (Lille 3)
Tero Tulenheimo (Helsinki)
Wim Veldman (Nijmegen)


Games, like logics, are tools for investigating the world, language, and 
their relationship. Semantic, dialogic, evolutionary, interrogative, 
argumentative, and pragmatic methods have been included into the toolkit. 
Following the recent increase in investment on games and game-theoretic 
methods in logic, language, computation and communication, we still need a 
better understanding of the possibilities of forming converging 
methodologies underlying these diverse contemporary currents. The purpose of 
the Prague Conference on Logic, Games and Philosophy: Foundational 
Perspectives is to explore the interfaces between logic and games with the 
eye on philosophical, methodological and foundational issues.

Preference is given to papers that make a definite contribution to 
philosophical, methodological and foundational issues underlying game-
theoretic approaches to logical, computational or linguistic research, 
including relevant historical and philosophical issues on the Theory of 
Games itself. 

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

+ Wittgenstein, C. S. Peirce
+ Language Games
+ Game-Theoretic Semantics
+ Dialogue Games
+ Interrogative Games/Philosophy of Science
+ Evolutionary Games
+ Diachronicity/Semantic-Pragmatic Change
+ Game-Theoretic Methods in Logic, Language, Computation, Communication

Among the invited speakers of the colloquium are Mathieu Marion (Ottawa, 
unconfirmed), Shahid Rahman (Lille 3), Gabrial Sandu (Helsinki), Wim Veldman 
(Nijmegen).

Potential contributors are asked to submit a two page (including references) 
abstract; the deadline is 15 June , 2004. Abstracts are to be submitted by 
e-mail (preferably as PDF, PS or MS Word files) prepared for anonymous 
reviewing. (To prevent problems caused by e-mail failures, the receipt of 
every abstract will be confirmed within one week.) Notification of 
acceptance will be distributed by 15 July,  2004. Contributed papers are 
scheduled for approx. 40 minutes (including discussion). Please direct your 
abstracts to: lanna at site.cas.cz

The proceedings of the Prague International Colloquium will be offered to 
Kluwer Academic Publishers for inclusion in their series Logic, Epistemology 
and the Unity of Science.

If you need more information, please contact us at: lanna at site.cas.cz 
The conference website is http://www.flu.cas.cz/Logica/Aconf/col2004.html