Category: Allgemein

The International Association for Computing and Philosophy is pleased to put out this call for abstracts for its next conference in 2026.

• Conference dates: July 15-17, 2026.
• Conference location: University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS, USA.
• Conference host: Center for Cyber-Social Dynamics.
• Conference Website: https://iacapconf.org

Important Dates

• Extended abstracts for individual talks (up to 1000 words) due on: January 31, 2026.
• Workshop proposals due on: January 31, 2026. 
• Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2026.
• Conference registration will open on: April 1, 2026.

Detailed Instructions

• Title: A short and descriptive title which will be shown in the conference program.
• Short Abstract: A short abstract of approx. 200 words that will be displayed in the conference program. Do not include a bibliography.
• Extended Abstract: For an individual talk or workshop proposal (see below for more information on workshops). Maximum 1000 words excluding references. Participants will have the opportunity to publish their accepted/edited abstract/preprint on Zenodo before the program is published (2026 version submission link). Links to the online version will be published in the program.
• PDF formatted full abstract: If you have a typeset PDF of your extended abstract, you may upload it in addition.
• Keywords: Please give us 5 or so keywords to assist us in peer review.
• Track: Please choose the track which most closely aligns with your abstract’s topic. This sorting is to help us review the abstracts and to give us a baseline for paper grouping.
• If possible, please include an ORCID link in your contact data.
• Profile picture: The online version of the program may feature profile pictures, to help people find you during the conference and ask questions about your contribution. Adding a profile picture is voluntary. 
• Additional speakers: Please identify any co-authors and indicate who is presenting.
• Notes: Any additional notes or context you believe will help us review your proposal.
• Does your abstract need an early review due to visa or planning considerations? Please indicate this in the submission process. The submission page features a Notes section for this. Also, please try to upload these early review abstracts ASAP, if possible by mid December, and please don’t hesitate to write to us if need be.

Tracks

IACAP has a long tradition of promoting philosophical dialogue and interdisciplinary research on all aspects of computing. Its members have contributed to the philosophical and ethical debates about computing, information technologies, and artificial intelligence. The 2026 annual conference will continue this tradition by bringing together researchers from various fields who are interested in the topics covered in our tracks, such as:

• Computation, Cognitive Science, and Cognition
• Computational Methods in the Sciences
• Computer-Mediated Communication
• Epistemological Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Computing
• Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Computation, Information, and Robotics
• Human-Computational Systems Interaction
• Information Culture and Society
• Philosophy and History of Computing
• Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
• Philosophy of Artificial Life and Biologically Inspired Computing
• Philosophy of Information and Information Technology
• Robotics and Embodiment
• SIG: Mind and Machines
• Societal and Environmental Impact of Computing Technologies and Automated Systems
• Theoretical Problems in Computer Science
• Virtual Reality

Special Tracks

Automation in Science

From software-intensive science (e.g., computational biology, chemistry, etc.) to machine learning techniques in fields like particle physics, computational methods have been playing an increasingly important, and often indispensable, role in the way we conduct scientific inquiry. Increasingly, the role they play can be characterized as automation, since these techniques accomplish tasks previously conducted exclusively by human intervention. This track invites papers that aim to explore the philosophical (i.e., epistemological, ethical, or civilizational) implications of such a development from perspectives such as philosophy of science, philosophy of technology and/or philosophy of computation amongst others.

Epistemology of ML

Contemporary Machine learning (ML) approaches are being increasingly used in both formal and practical inquiry— e.g., science, policy-making, finance, etc.— in novel and important ways. Yet, their epistemic properties, roles, import and status are far from established. We invite papers that explore epistemological issues in machine learning and its applications. 

Pragmatics of LLMs

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs), and the increasing institutional adoption of favoured services, create opportunities for philosophers to develop experience-based frameworks for professional practice and philosophical work. This track invites papers examining how philosophers develop norms and guidance for LLM use in research, professional, and collegial contexts, addressing questions of professional responsibility, pedagogical guidance, and the identification of problematic practices, informed by recent developments in LLM capabilities.

Workshop Proposals

A workshop typically lasts around 90 min. Various formats are possible, from a themed session with various pre-selected papers on a defined topic to book symposia. If you have an idea but are unsure about its fit, please contact us beforehand. For a workshop proposal, please provide (a) a short abstract (approx. 200-300 words) describing the workshop in such a way as to be displayed in the conference program. Please add (b) an extended abstract (approx.) 1000 words that describes and justifies the workshop topic in more detail. We also ask that you upload (c)  a set of short abstracts for each paper in the workshop.

Submit a Proposal

https://pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2026/cfp

The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) has selected Prof. Dr. Vincent C. Müller for the 2025 Covey Award. The Covey Award recognizes senior scholars with a substantial record of innovative research in the field of computing and philosophy broadly conceived.

Müller is Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Philosophy and Ethics of AI and Director of the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research (PAIR) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He is also Visiting Professor at TU Eindhoven, President of the European Society for Cognitive Systems, Chair of the Society for the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, and Chair of the euRobotics topics group on ethical, legal and socio-economic issues. Previously, he was Professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven (2019-22) and at Anatolia College/ACT in Thessaloniki (1998-2019), Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London (2018-22), University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds (2016-22), James Martin Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (2011-15), and Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University (2005-6).

Müller works mainly on philosophical problems connected to artificial intelligence, both from an ethical and a theoretical perspective. He organises a conference series on the Philosophy of AI (PT-AI/PhAI), co-edits the journal Philosophy of AI, and co-founded the Society for the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. In 2014, he organized an IACAP conference in Thessaloniki (Greece). He is editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, authored the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Ethics of AI and Robotics, and has two forthcoming books: Can Machines Think? and Artificial Minds (the latter with G. Löhr).

The board recognizes the significant contributions Prof. Dr. Müller has made to the scholarship on issues such as AI and robotic ethics, the nature of computation and cognition, and the philosophical significance of AI, as well as the importance of his sustained role in leading and organizing the philosophical community on these and other topics.

Prof. Dr. Müller will present the Covey Award Keynote Address at IACAP-AISB 2025 conference at University of Twente, The Netherlands, 1-3 July. For more information see https://iacapconf.org/.

Please join us at IACAP-AISB 2025 to congratulate Prof. Dr. Müller on this well-deserved award.

1-3 July 2025, University of Twente, NL

The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) and the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) hosted a joint conference from 1-3 July, 2025 at the University of Twente, NL. Submissions are closed.

On 30 June, 4TU.ethics hosted a workshop on AI and neurotechnology at the University of Twente that will directly precede the conference. This workshop, organised in conjunction with member societies IACAP and AISB, also comprised the formal opening of the joint IACAP-AISB conference. The conference included symposia, talks, posters, and panels on a range of topics from AI to computing. The 4TU.ethics workshop provided space to consider AI and neurotechnology ethics before an already exciting programme of events. The workshop was planned in association with this special issue on NeuroAI.

• Conference dates: July 1-3
• Conference website: https://iacapconf.org/
• Host Organisation Websites: IACAP.org AISB.org.uk
• Conference location: Enschede, NL.
• Conference host: University of Twente

Deadline for Symposia submissions was January 15, 2025.

Keynote Speakers

• AISB Keynote – Philip Brey
• IACAP Covey Award Address – Vincent C. Müller
• IACAP Simon Award Address – Emily Sullivan

IACAP-AISB-2025 Organising Committee [OC]

• Y. J. Erden (University of Twente)
• Stephen Rainey (TU Delft)
• Rob Wortham (University of Bath)
• Arzu Formanek (Fraunhofer Institute)
• Björn Lundgren (University of Erlangen)
• Hajo Greif (Warsaw University of Technology)

General questions about the conference to: Y. J. Erden and Stephen Rainey

General questions about the symposia to: Y. J. Erden and Stephen Rainey

Questions about symposia interna: to the respective organsiers

Questions about non-symposia presentations, posters and registration technicalities: Arzu Fomanek, Björn Lundgren, Hajo Greif, Brian Ballsun-Stanton

Call for Proposals (archive)

You will find the call for contributions here

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the executive board of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP), I seek nominations for the 2025 Herbert A. Simon Award.

The Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy recognizes scholars at an early stage of their academic career who are likely to reshape debates at the nexus of Computing and Philosophy by their original research. Previous recipients of the award include:

• 2024: Corey Maley (Purdue University)
• 2023: Kathleen Creel (Northeastern University)
• 2022: Björn Lundgren (Utrecht University)
• 2021: Carissa Véliz (University of Oxford) 
• 2020: no award
• 2019: Juan M. Durán (Delft University of Technology)
• 2018: Thomas C. King (Oxford Internet Institute)
• 2017: Andrea Scarantino (Georgia State University)
• 2016: Marcin Milkowski (The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
• 2015: Michael Rescorla (University of California-Santa Barbara)
• 2014: Gualterio Piccinini (University of Missouri-St. Louis)
• 2013: Judith Simon (University of Vienna)
• 2012: Patrick Allo (Vrije Universiteit Brussels)
• 2011: John Sullins (Sonoma State)
• 2010: Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Hertfordshire and University of Oxford)

The Simon award will be presented at the 2025 joint IACAP and AISB conference organized at the University of Twente, Netherlands. Call for papers and symposia will follow in due course.

Please send your nomination(s) through our online form: https://limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/777597?lang=en

For full consideration, please submit your nomination no later than the end of November. This year, the nominations are first considered by our newly-formed award committee, who will make their recommendations to the IACAP board. If you have any questions concerning the nominations, please reach out to me (bjorn.lundgren@fau.de) and the chair of the awards committee, Tom Powers (tpowers@udel.edu). Please CC Brian (brian.ballsun-stanton@mq.edu.au) for technical queries.

Please note that the award committee will prima facie consider around 10 years from receiving a PhD as a cutoff for whether a scholar is at “an early stage of their academic career.” If you for some reason want to nominate someone who received their PhD more than 10 years ago, please state clearly why the board should make an exception. Alternatively, consider whether the individual contribution is sufficient for consideration for the Covey award.

All the best,
Björn Lundgren
Vice President, International Association of Computing and Philosophy

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the executive board of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP), we seek nominations for the 2025 Covey Award.

The Covey Award recognizes senior scholars with a substantial record of innovative research in the field of computing and philosophy broadly conceived. Recipients of the prestigious award include:

Please send your nomination(s) through our online form: https://limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/656829?lang=en

For full consideration, please submit your nomination no later than the end of November. This year, the nominations are first considered by our newly-formed award committee, who will make their recommendations to the IACAP board. If you have any questions concerning the nominations, please reach out to me (bjorn.lundgren@fau.de) and the chair of the awards committee, Tom Powers (tpowers@udel.edu). Please CC Brian (brian.ballsun-stanton@mq.edu.au) for technical queries.
All the best,
Björn Lundgren
Vice President, International Association of Computing and Philosophy

Registration and the conference website is now open.

The International Association for Computing and Philosophy’s executive board has selected Associate Professor Corey Maley, for the 2023 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy, which specifically recognizes scholars at an early stage of their academic career whose research is likely to reshape debates at the nexus of Computing and Philosophy.

Corey is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is interested in understanding what, precisely, computation is. To that end, he is currently working on a theory of computation that is broad enough to incorporate distinct types of computation as species (i.e., both digital and analog) in both artifacts and natural systems (i.e., engineered systems and neural systems). At the same time, this theory needs to be narrow enough to avoid making everything computational, or making computation a mere matter of perspective. Finally, this theory should make clear what the various types of computation have in common such that they are all of the same genera, yet distinct enough to count as separate species of that genera. Much of this project has been informed by Corey’s research into analog computation, which is not (as is commonly thought) essentially about continuity. Revealing the differences between analog and digital computation, as well as their similarities, has illuminated what aspects of computation are specific only to digital computation, and not necessary features of computation in general.

Before Purdue, Corey was a faculty member at the University of Kansas. As an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska, he received a B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Psychology, and a B.A. in Philosophy. After spending a couple of years in a cognitive neuroscience lab at Washington University in St. Louis, he went to graduate school at Princeton University, where he received a Ph.D. through the Logic and Philosophy of Science track in the Department of Philosophy.

Dr. Maley will present the Simon Award Keynote Address at IACAP 2024 conference in Eugene, Oregon, 8-10 July 2024.

Please join us at IACAP 2024 to congratulate Dr. Corey Maley on this well-deserved award.

The International Association for Computing and Philosophy’s Executive Board has selected Johannes Lenhard for the 2024 Covey Award recognizing senior scholars with a substantial record of innovative research in the field of computing and philosophy broadly conceived. The board recognised Professor Lenhard’s significant contribution to our field over several decades.

Johannes Lenhard holds the Heisenberg-Professorship “Philosophy in Science and Engineering” at Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University, Kaiserslautern, Germany, starting in 4/2024. He received his doctoral degree in mathematics from the University of Frankfurt (1998), long before he wrote his habilitation thesis in philosophy at Bielefeld University (2012). How does using a computer change the methodology and epistemology of the sciences? How does computational modeling transform the use of mathematical tools? Lenhard’s research aims at tackling these questions in a way that speaks to philosophers, historians, and scientists alike. He articulates this aim in: “Calculated Surprises. A Philosophy of Computer Simulation”, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. In May 2024, just in time for the IACAP 2024 conference, his book “Cultures of Prediction. How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools”, coauthored with Ann Johnson (1965-2016), will be published by MIT Press.

Professor Lenhard will present the Covey Award Keynote Address at IACAP 2024 conference in Eugene, Oregon, 8-10 July 2024. For more information see https://www.iacap.org/iacap-2024-call-for-abstracts-and-symposia-proposals-university-of-oregon/

Please join us at IACAP 2024 to congratulate Prof. Lenhard on this well-deserved award.

The International Association for Computing and Philosophy’s executive board has selected Dr. Kathleen Creel for the 2023 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy, which specifically recognizes scholars at an early stage of their academic career whose research is likely to reshape debates at the nexus of Computing and Philosophy.

Dr. Creel is an assistant professor at Northeastern University, cross appointed between the Department of Philosophy and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Her research explores the moral, political, and epistemic implications of machine learning as it is used in non-state automated decision making and in science. A current project focuses on defining, measuring, and ethically evaluating algorithm-derived outcome homogeneity, namely the extent to which monoculture among decision-making systems causes individuals to receive the same outcomes from multiple decision-makers. In other work, she has developed definitions of transparency for complex computational systems, argued that algorithmic arbitrariness is wrong at scale, and contended that ethically setting decision thresholds in medical settings requires the consideration of individual patient values. 

Before Northeastern, she recieved her BA from Williams College in Computer Science and Philosophy. After working as a software engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, she received her MA from Simon Fraser University’s Philosophy Department and her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh’s History and Philosophy of Science Department. Most recently, she was the Embedded Ethics postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. Dr. Creel will present the Simon Award Keynote Address at IACAP 2023 in Prague, 3-5 July 2023.

Please join us at IACAP 2023 to congratulate Dr. Creel on this well-deserved award. More information regarding the conference can be found here: https://www.iacap.org/iacap-2023-prague-czech-republic/

The International Association for Computing and Philosophy’s Executive Board has selected Oron Shagrir for the 2023 Covey Award recognizing senior scholars with a substantial record of innovative research in the field of computing and philosophy broadly conceived. The board recognised Professor Shagrir’s significant contribution to our field over several decades; in particular, his contribution to theories of computation.

Oron Shagrir is the Schulman Chair in Philosophy, professor of philosophy and cognitive and brain sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He graduated in mathematics and computer science from the Hebrew University, and received his PhD in philosophy and cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego. He was a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has served the academic community in many different roles, and currently, since 2017, he is the vice president for international affairs of the Hebrew University. He was an associate editor of Cognitive Science and served on the editorial boards of several journals and book series. Professor Shagrir’s current research focuses on the nature of computation and representation, the role of computational approaches in cognitive and brain sciences, and the history of computability. He is the author of The Nature of Physical Computation (Oxford University Press, 2022), the editor, with Jack Copeland and Carl Posy, of Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond (MIT 2013), and the author of numerous papers on computation and the mind.

Professor Oron Shagrir will present the Covey Award Keynote Address at IACAP 2023 conference in Prague, 3-5 July 2023. For more information see https://www.iacap.org/iacap-2023-prague-czech-republic/.

Please join us at IACAP 2023 to congratulate Prof. Shagrir on this well-deserved award.