[FOM] CFP - Extended Deadline - GAMES, GAME THEORY AND GAME SEMANTICS

[Mathieu Marion]

CALL FOR PAPERS
8th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication
GAMES, GAME THEORY AND GAME SEMANTICS: PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC
PERSPECTIVES.
18-20 May 2012, Riga, Latvia.
 
 
INVITED ORGANIZERS: Mathieu Marion (UQAM) and Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
(Helsinki)
 
INVITED SPEAKERS include:
 
Samson Abramsky (Oxford)
Alexandru Baltag (Amsterdam)
Robin Clark (Pennsylvania)
Boudewijn de Bruin (Groningen)
Jaakko Hintikka (Boston)
Giorgi Japaridze (Villanova)
Alain Lecomte (Paris)
Shahid Rahman (Lille)
Helge Rückert (Mannheim)
Gabriel Sandu (Helsinki)
John Woods (British Columbia)
 
Fundamental results in the mathematical theory of games were obtained early
on in the 20th century by Zermelo, Borel, and von Neumann; after the
publication of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by von Neumann &
Morgenstern in 1944, it quickly became of fundamental importance to economic
theory, being applied later on to other fields such as biology, while in
philosophy David Lewis¹ Convention was an important early application. Games
also played a significant role within mathematics, especially in model
theory with, e.g., the back-and-forth games, and with the work of Lorenzen
in the 1950s and Hintikka in the 1960s, game semantics emerged, again
leading to important developments in philosophy, e.g., within epistemic
logic. Showing again the extraordinary fruitfulness and interdisciplinary
nature of the concept of game, game semantics has become since a paradigm in
logic and in computer science where it have been used inter alia to model
interactive computation and multi-agents systems, as well as in linguistics
and argumentation theory. The consequences on philosophy of these numerous
developments need to be explored. In an interdisciplinary spirit, this
conference will bring together a number of key contributors to and welcomes
papers on the concept of games, game theory and game semantics, with
applications in economics, logic, computer science, linguistics,
argumentation theory, and philosophy.
 
The symposium is co-hosted by the Center for Cognitive Sciences and
Semantics  <http://www.lu.lv/eng/general/structure/study/ccss/> of the
University of Latvia and the Department of Philosophy
<http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~philos/> at McMaster University.
  
 
Call for Submitted papers:
 
A limited number of papers will be selected for presentation at the
symposium and considered for inclusion in the proceedings in the Baltic
International Yearbook
<http://thebalticyearbook.org/journals/baltic/issue/current>  of Cognition,
Logic and Communication.
 
Time allowed for presentations is 40 minutes including discussion. Submitted
papers should have a maximum of 3000 words and should be accompanied by a
200 words abstract.
 
All submitted papers should be PREPARED FOR BLIND REVIEW, and should be sent
electronically to:
 
lapointe at mcmaster.ca <mailto:bolzano at ksu.edu>
 
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS 12 FEBRUARY 2012. Authors will be notified in
LATE FEBRUARY 2012.
 
Symposium proposal:
 
In addition to individual papers, the scientific committee will be
considering proposals for symposia. Time allowed for symposia is 2 hours
(including discussion). Symposia should include a minimum of three and a
maximum of four contributions. Submissions should be clearly identified as
³Symposium proposal² and include:
 
1)    The title of the symposium
2)    A brief description of the topic and its relevance to the conference
(200 words)
3)    The name, affiliation and academic status (student, lecturer,
assistant professor, etc.) of each participant
4)    The title of each contribution as well as an extended 500-1000 word
abstract.
5)    The name, affiliation and academic status of the person who will be
chairing the symposium
 
Symposium proposals should be sent electronically to:
 
lapointe at mcmaster.ca <mailto:bolzano at ksu.edu>
 
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS 12 FEBRUARY 2012. Authors will be notified in
LATE FEBRUARY 2012.
 
Sponsors and partners:
 
The University of Latvia <http://www.lu.lv/eng/>
McMaster University <http://www.mcmaster.ca/home.cfm>

Sandra Lapointe
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
McMaster University
University Hall 310A
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1
Tel: 905-525-9140, ext. 24312
Fax: 905-577-0385
http://web.me.com/sandra.lapointe/website/


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Mathieu Marion
Chaire de recherche du Canada
en philosophie de la logique et des mathématiques

Département de philosophie
Université du Québec à Montréal
C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville
Montréal, Québec
Canada H3C 3P8

Téléphone: 514-987-3000, poste 4999
Télécopieur: 514-987-6721

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