Call for participation

SOCREAL 2007



International Workshop on
Philosophy and Ethics of Social Reality 2007


9 - 10, March 2007
Conference Hall, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan


Organized by GPAE
Graduate Program in Applied Ethics
Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University



@In the past two decades, various logics and game theoretical analyses are proposed and combined to model diverse aspects of social interaction among agents including individual agents, organizations, and individuals having certain positions within organizations. The aim of SOCREAL 2007 workshop is to bring together researchers working on interesting aspects of such interaction in logic, philosophy, ethics, computer science, cognitive science and related fields in order to share issues and ideas and get them into perspective.

@SOCREAL 2007 Workshop consists of six invited lectures and three presentations of submitted and refereed papers by international researchers that present the state of the art results from various fields mentioned above, and a special invited guest lecture by Professor Nobyuki Takahashi (Hokkaido University) on the results of an international experimental research project hosted at the Center for the Study of Cultural and Ecological Foundations of the Mind of Hokkaido University.

@We invite researchers and students from various fields, including logic, philosophy, ethics, computer science, cognitive science to participate in this workshop.

@The working language of SOCREAL 2007 Workshop is English.


THE PROGRAM


\ Friday, March 9 \

09:30-09:50
Registration

09:50-10:00
Opening: Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)

Session 1: Collectivity

10:00-10:45
Jose Carmo (University of Madeira)
Logics for modeling (organized) collective agency

10:45-11:30
Ryoji Fujimoto (Hokkaido University)
An Attempt to Secure the Status of Collectivities

11:30-11:40
Break

11:40-12:25
Yasuo Nakayama (Osaka University)
A New Analysis of the Structure of Social Reality

12:25-14:00
Lunch Break

Session 2: Logical Dynamics of Social Interaction

14:00-14:45
Hisashi Kitamura, Koji Nakatogawa, and Yohei Fukayama (Hokkaido University)
Substructuralized Modal Logics Applied to the Two girls Puzzle

14:45-15:30
Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)
Logical Dynamics of Speech Acts

15:30-15:40
Break

15:40-16:25
Stijn De Saeger (Japan Advanced Iinstitute of Science and Technology)
Institutions in Channel Theory

16:25-16:40
Break

16:40-17:40
Special Guest Lecture:

Nobuyuki Takahashi
(Hokkaido University, The Center for the Study of Cultural and Ecological Foundations of the Mind)
Adaptive Bases of Human Rationality

18:00-20:00
Reception (Hokkaido University Co-op Chuo Syokudo)


\ Saturday, March 10 \

Session 3: Obligation and Rationality

09:00-09:45
Allard Tamminga (University of Groningen)
Moral Conflicts between Groups of Agents

09:45-10:30
Yuko Murakami (National Institute of Informatics)
Utilitarian Deontic Logic and a Sequel

10:30-10:40
Break

10:40-11:25
Jun Miyoshi (Kanto Gakuin University)
A Strategic View of Promising

11:25-11:35
Closing: Jose Carmo (University of Madeira)



REGISTRATION
Workshop: Free
Reception (standard): 3,000 yen
Reception (regular student): 1,500 yen

Please send e-mail specifying your name, affiliation, and the type of your registration to: gpae@let.hokudai.ac.jp

Access:
Access guide to Hokkaido University can be found here.
Campus map is available here.

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
Nobuyuki Takahashi
(The Center for the Study of Cultural and Ecological Foundations of the Mind, Hokkaido University)

INVITED SPEAKERS
Jose Carmo (Universidade da Madeira)
Jun Miyoshi (Kanto Gakuin University)
Yuko Murakami (National Institute of Informatics)
Yasuo Nakayama (Osaka University)
Allard Tamminga (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Jose Carmo (Universidade da Madeira)
Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Jose Carmo (Universidade da Madeira)
Koji Ishihara (Hokkaido University)
Nobuo Kurata (Hokkaido University)
Koji Nakatogawa (Hokkaido University)
Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)

CONTACT:
yamada@let.hokudai.ac.jp
gpae@let.hokudai.ac.jp



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