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CALL FOR PAPERS

NEW REGISTRATION/SUBMISSION POLICY!!! cf. below.

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                     COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY

                          E-CAP2004_ITALY

         Pavia, Italy, Collegio Ghislieri, June 3-5, 2004

                        Chair: Lorenzo Magnani

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                      Up-to date information
               on the conference will be found at
       http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra2.html

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ALSO NEW !! Conference
MODEL-BASED REASONING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Pavia, December 2004
http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html  
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GENERAL INFORMATION

 From Thursday 3 to Saturday 5 June 2004 (three days) the International 
European
Conference ``COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY'' will be held at the University
of Pavia (near Milan, Italy).

GENERAL INFORMATION

The Computational Philosophy Laboratory and the Department of Philosophy
of the University of Pavia will be hosting the European Computing and
Philosophy (CAP) conference from the 3rd to the 5th of  June.

PROGRAM

The conference will deal with all aspects of the "computational turn"
that is occurring within the discipline of Philosophy. We solicit papers 
that examine topics

pertaining to computing and philosophy from the following list.

RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS

We call for papers that cover topics pertaining to
computing and philosophy from the following list:

    * Cognitive Science, Epistemology, and Metaphysics
    * Abductive reasoning, Scientific discovery,  Creative processes
    * Internal and External Representations in Cognitive Science
    * Simulation, Embodiment, and Distributed Reasoning in
      Computational Models of Cognitive    
    * Problem of Consciousness in Philosophy
    * New Models of Logic Software
    * Computer-based Learning and Teaching Strategies and Resources
    * Ethics and Computers
    * The Impact of Distance Learning on the Teaching of Philosophy
    * The Role of Computers as Tools for Philosophical Research

SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS

The deadline for submission is 19th December 2003 -
though late submissions will be considered.

Authors must submit
an electronic version - formatted in Microsoft Word or RTF,  but also in 
PDF or POSTSCRIPT
( in this last case please include source  - DOC, TEX, etc.,  file)   -
of an extended abstract (total word count aproximately 3500).  The file 
must also contain a  

300 WORD abstract
that will be used for the conference web site/booklet.  PPT files are 
also accepted.

not later than

December  19, 2003

Please send electronically the extended abstract
to the Prof. Magnani at the address
lmagnani at cc.gatech.edu
(if the previous address does not work please use lorenzo.magnani at unipv.it)

A RIGID LAW ON PRIVACY IN ITALY DOES NOT FAVOR MORE COMFORTABLE 
COMPUTATIONAL METHODS OF

PAYMENTS
(CONFERENCE AND ACCOMODATION FEES), SORRY.
PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS INDICATED BELOW.

REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION

PLEASE REGISTER by email
lmagnani at cc.gatech.edu (or lorenzo.magnani at unipv.it),
fax or air mail by
sending the PROGRAM CHAIR first and last name, function, institution, full
address, phone, fax and email.
For information about paper submission and the program that is not
available on the web site, please contact the program chair.

Registration Fees:

Before 15 April 2004:

          Standard:   EURO 150,00          (to participate in all the 
activities of the

Conference Reception Included)

          Phd Students: EURO 90,00

          Students: Free

After  15 April 2004:

          Standard:   EURO 180,00           (to participate in all the 
activities of the

Conference Reception Included)

          Phd Students: EURO 110,00

          Students: Free

One day only:  EURO 80,00

No refunds will be granted after May 12th, 2004

Terms & Conditions: an administration fee of EURO 75,00 will be charged 
for cancellations

confirmed in writing by 12th May. We regret that no refund can be made 
after that date, for

whatever reason, although substitutions will be acceptable if notified 
in writing before the

event.

METHOD OF PAYMENT:

SWIFT TRANSFER

Bank (Swift) Transfer to BANCA REGIONALE EUROPEA S.p.A
BRANCH PAVIA - Sede
SWIFT BREUITM2 301
Bank Code 06906.11301
Acc. n. 42113 COMITATO CONVEGNI E. W. I. C.
IBAN: IT32O0690611301000000042113
(attention: the fifth symbol is the letter O and not zero).
Please indicate  CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE E-CAP2004_ITALY
Please ask your BANK to clearly indicate in the order of payment
your first and last NAME.
In case of problems please contact Elena Gandini Local Organizer
elena at acrossevents.com).
If you prefer, you can mail an international check to
CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE  E-CAP2004_ITALY,
Dipartimento di Filosofia, Piazza Botta 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy .

ACCOMMODATION

To book a reservation please fill and fax to
+39-0382-23215 the ACCOMMODATION FORM
you will find in the Conference Web Site
http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/courses/progra1.html
(to dr. Elena Gandini Local Organizer).
POSSIBLY BEFORE APRIL 15, 2003.
For information please email Elena Gandini, Local Organizer
elena at acrossevents.com.
Please do not send email messages containing your credit card data.

All accommodation is hotel-based with en-suite facilities
(the prices are per room per day).

Hotel Moderno ****Euro 103,00 (single b&b) Euro138,00 (double b&b)

Hotel Ariston *** Euro 80,00(single) Euro 110,00 (double), Breakfast 
Euro 10,00

Hotel Excelsior *** Euro 50,00(single) Euro 73,00(double)
                               Euro 62,00(D/S) breakfast Euro 6,00

Hotel Ritz***  Euro 65,00 (single b&b) Euro 87,00 (double b&b)

Hotel Excelsior (from the station walk east)
Hotel Moderno (from the station walk north)
Hotel Ritz (San Genesio-PV); an Hotel bus service is available.
To reach Hotel Ariston take the bus n. 3 or taxi.

If the Hotels above will be completely booked other Hotels are available,
in this last case please email
dr. Elena Gandini Local Organizer e-mail: elena at acrossevents.com

PENALTY
In case of no show the Hotels will charged you their own penalty. For 
further
information, please contact our local organiser Elena Gandini 
elena at acrossevents.com.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline...........................19 December 2003
Notification of acceptance................... 19 March 2004
Conference................................... 3-5 June 2004
Final papers............................due.. 15 July 2004

PROGRAM CHAIR

Lorenzo MAGNANI

Professor of Logic and Epistemology
Department of Philosophy and Computational Philosophy Laboratory
University of Pavia, Piazza Botta 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Office: +39-0382-506283, Home: +39-0383-371067
Fax: +39-0382-23215
&
Weissman Distinguished Visiting Professor
Department of Philosophy, Baruch College,
1 Bernard Baruch Way, New York , NY 10010
Office: +646-312-4367, Fax: +646- 312-4361, Home: 646-432-9309
Email: lmagnani at unipv.it, lmagnani at cc.gatech.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE  

- Atocha Aliseda, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas Universidad
  Nacional  Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, MEXICO
- Diderik Batens, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science,
  Universiteit Gent,  Ghent, Belgium
- Robert Cavalier, Department of Philosophy,  Carnegie Mellon, 
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Simon Colton, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK
  - Roberto Cordeschi, Department of Philosophy, University of Salerno,
  Salerno , ITALY
- Chris Dobbyn, Faculty of Maths and Computing,The Open 
University,Walton Hall,
  Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
- Roy Dyckhoff, School of Computer Science,University of St 
Andrews,North Haugh,
  St Andrews,Fife, KY16 9SS, Scotland
- Luciano Floridi, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK and
  University of Bari,Bari, ITALY
- Theo Kuypers, Dept. of Philosophy,  University of Groningen, Groningen,
  The  Netherlands
- Lorenzo Magnani, Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia,
  Pavia, ITALY and Baruch College, The City University of New York,
  New York, USA
- Nancy J. Nersessian, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of
  Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
-  Claudio Pizzi, Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences,
  University of Siena, Siena, ITALY
 - Susan Stuart, Humanities Advanced Technology and Information
  Institute,  University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
- Guglielmo Tamburrini, Department of Philosophy, University of Pisa,
  Pisa, ITALY
- Riccardo Viale, Fondazione Rosselli,Via San Quintino, 18/c, 10121 Torino,
  Italy

LOCAL ORGANIZER

dr. Elena Gandini  
Across Events s.r.l.
Via A. Moro, 
12                                                                             

27021 Bereguardo (PV) Italy
mobile +39 349 55 41 915
e-mail: elena at acrossevents.com
www.acrossevents.com

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Elena Gandini (elena at acrossevents.com), Alberto Gatti
(gatti_alberto at hotmail.com), Riccardo Dossena (riki.dox at libero.it),
Lorenzo Magnani (lmagnani at cc.gatech.edu),  Matteo Piazza (pimat at yahoo.com),
(Department of Philosophy, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy)
Stefanelli Mario (mstefa at aim.unipv.it),
(Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di  Pavia, 
Pavia, Italy)

IMPORTANT ADDRESSES

PROGRAM CHAIR

Lorenzo MAGNANI

Department of Philosophy and Computational Philosophy Laboratory
University of Pavia,
Piazza Botta 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Office: +39-0382-506283, Home: +39-0383-371067
Fax: +39-0382-23215
Email: lmagnani at unipv.it

also

Department of Philosophy,
Baruch College, The City University of New York
1 Bernard Baruch Way, New York , NY 10010
Office: +646-312-4364
Fax: +646- 312-4361

CONFERENCE SITE:

Collegio Ghislieri, Piazza Ghislieri, 27100 PAVIA, Italy,
phone +39 0382 37861. http://www.ghislieri.it/

The Conference is sponsored by
UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA, ITALY
UNIVERSITY OF SIENA, ITALY
MIUR (Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e
Tecnologica),
ITALY

HOW TO REACH PAVIA

LINATE Airport: www.sea-aeroportimilano.it/linate People arriving by 
plane at LINATE should

take the bus to the CENTRAL STATION of Milan (cf. below from this 
Station to Pavia). In

LINATE it could be convenient to take a Taxi because the airport is 
close to the center of

Milan. Moreover,the bus company SILA ( www.sila.it ) offers six runs 
from LINATE to Pavia at

9.00, 10.00, 12.00 AM and 2.00, 5.00, 8.30 PM. The last stop is Pavia, 
near the station (see

again our updated web page for possible alterations of this time-table) 
(from Pavia to

LINATE six runs at 5.00, 7.30, 10.00 AM, 1.00, 4.00, 6.00 PM) (one hour 
trip; _13,00 return

ticket, _8,00 one way ticket). In Pavia there is only one station. The 
easiest way to reach

the center of the town is to get off at the station and than take the 
bus n. 3.

MALPENSA 2000 and OLD MALPENSA Airports: 
www.sea-aeroportimilano.it/malpensa (usually people

arrive to Malpensa 2000 and not to OLD MALPENSA): People arriving by 
plane at MALPENSA 2000

(also called MALPENSA 2000 Terminal 1) or at "old" MALPENSA (now called 
MALPENSA NORTH but

also called Malpensa 2000 Terminal 2) should  take the bus to the 
CENTRAL STATION of  Milan.

There is also a bus AND A shuttle TRAIN (Malpensa Express) from Malpensa 
2000 to the NORTH

STATION (Piazzale Cadorna) of Milan, in this case from NORTH Station you 
will have to take

the underground MM2 (green line) to the Central Raylway Station: trains 
to Pavia leave from

Central station. Moreover, the bus company SILA offers various runs from 
MALPENSA 2000 to

Pavia at  9.00, 11:00 AM, 1:30 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:30, PM (from Pavia to 
MALPENSA 2000 and

to OLD MALPENSA various runs at 7.00, 9:00, 11:00 AM, 1:00, 3:15, 5:00, 
7:00 PM) (one hour

and half trip; _18,00 retourn ticket, _12,00 one way ticket).
The last stop is Pavia, near the rail station

In Pavia there is only one rail station.
The easiest way to reach the center of the town is to get off at the 
station and than take

the bus n. 3.

There are trains from MILAN (Central Raylway Station) to PAVIA and vice 
versa about every an

hour www.trenitalia.it (routes: MILAN-GENOVA; MILAN-VENTIMIGLIA; 
MILAN-LA SPEZIA;

MILAN-SAVONA; MILAN-SESTRI LEVANTE; MILAN-IMPERIA; MILAN-ALBENGA; Pavia 
is the first stop

only if the train is not slow, that is, if it is not, in ITALIAN, "L", 
locale).

(see again our updated web page for possible  alterations of this 
time-table)

For any further information do not hesitate to contact our local
organizer, Elena Gandini at elena at acrossevents.com