The Journal of Applied Non-classical Logics (JANCL) invites high quality  submissions of original research or survey papers to the special issue on Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems, to be published in early 2011.
 
TOPICS
The following is a non-exclusive list of specific topics in the focus of the special issue:
- Logical modeling of MAS
- Logical systems for specification, analysis, and reasoning about MAS
- Deductive systems and decision procedures for logics for MAS
- Algorithmic methods for formal verification of MAS
- Applications of logics in MAS.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS                                                                                            The papers should be typeset in LATEX, using the JANCL style,  obtainable from http://www.irit.fr/JANCL/. By default, each submission is limited to 25 pages. Should you need more space, please contact the guest editors of the special issue.
The submissions must be sent electronically, as PDF files, to lamas@uni.lu . They should contain affiliations and contact details of the authors, and an abstract of up to 1 page.
All submissions will be subjected to a standard refereeing procedure for JANCL.
GUEST EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE
Valentin Goranko, Technical University of Denmark
Wojciech Jamroga, University of Luxembourg

DEADLINES
Paper submission:    September 15, 2010
Notification:        November 30, 2010
Final version:       January 15, 2011

ENQUIRIES
For any questions regarding the special issue please contact the guest editors by sending email to lamas@uni.lu .

Third Call for Papers
The Arché/CSMN Graduate Conference 2010
The University of Oslo, Norway
November 6-7, 2010

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Ruth Chang (Rutgers)
Prof. Timothy Williamson (Oxford)
Prof. Stephen Yablo (MIT)
We invite high-quality papers in all areas of contemporary analytic
philosophy for the 4th Annual Arché/CSMN Graduate Conference.
The conference is co-hosted by Arché, Philosophical Research Centre for
Logic, Language, Metaphysics and Epistemology, and CSMN, Centre for the
Study of Mind in Nature.

Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2010.
(Notification of acceptance by October 1, 2010).

Each paper will have a response from a member of Arché or CSMN staff,
followed by open discussion.

Accommodation and travel expenses for all graduate speakers will be
covered.

All applicants (who must be graduate students as of September 1, 2010)
should submit the following for blind review:

• A cover sheet including author name, title of paper, institutional
affiliation and email address;
• An abstract, with no further information; and
• A paper suitable for a 35-minute presentation, and in any case no longer
than 5,000 words, with no further information.

All materials should be submitted in .doc, .rtf, .ps, .txt or .pdf format
to: archecsmngc4@googlemail.com.

For more information, please visit the conference website:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~arche/acgc/

Contact e-mail for the conference organizers: archecsmngc4@googlemail.com
Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html.
Prolonged discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via
http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html.
Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/pal.

Non-Classical Logic. Theory and Applications
3rd Edition

September 16-18, 2010
Torun, Poland
http://www.logika.umk.pl/LNK10/index_en.html

Non-classical logics form one of the most important branches of modern logic. In last decades a great variety of formal systems was developed especially in the context of computer science, artificial intelligence, formal linguistics, cognitive studies, as well as for the deeper analysis of traditional philosophical problems.

The well known families of non-classical logics include among others:

- Modal Logics
- Many-valued Logics
- Temporal Logics
- Epistemic Logics
- Substructural Logics
- Nonmonotonic Logics
- Paraconsistent Logics

The diversification of systems and solutions calls for stricter cooperation between researchers from different fields of investigation. The main aim of conference is to provide a forum for better transfer of results.

This is the third edition of “Non-Classical Logic. Theory and Applications”. Two times the conference was organized by Departament of Logic and Methodology at Lodz University. This year’s edition is organized in Torun by Department of Logic at Nicolaus Copernicus University (http://www.logika.umk.pl/index_en.html)

The formula of the conference is open. We expect declarations (reports; answers) devoted both to theoretical problems and practical applications. We welcome all those who want to make a summary of some research done in a specific field or to present some new original results.

Papers presented at the conference will be published in a special issue of Logic and Logical Philosophy (http://www.logika.umk.pl/llp/index.html).

Organizing Comitee: Andrzej Indrzejczak (LU), Tomasz Jarmuzek (NCU),
Janusz Kaczmarek (LU), Marek Nasieniewski (NCU), Andrzej Pietruszczak (NCU)

Deadline for submissions (title and abstract): August 15, 2010
Deadline for registration and payment: August 31, 2010
Conference dates: September 16-18, 2010

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

TICTTL – Third International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic
1-4 June 2011, Salamanca, Spain
http://logicae.usal.es/TICTTL/

Submission of Papers: 8th December 2010
Notification of Acceptance: 1st February 2011
Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: 1st March 2011

The Third International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic (TICTTL) will focus on a variety of topics including: logic teaching software, teaching formal methods, logic in the humanities, dissemination of logic courseware and logic textbooks, methods for teaching logic at different levels of instruction (secondary educuation, university level, and postgraduate), presentation of postgraduate programs in logic, e-learning, logic games, teaching argumentation theory and informal logic, and pedagogy of logic.

We are inviting submissions on the topics above, or on any other aspect of teaching logic or logic teaching software. We prefer 6 or 8 page submissions. Submissions must not exceed 8 pages. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the conference by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the TICTTL EasyChair website, submission instructions will be posted in later CFPs.

The proceedings of TICTTL include invited papers, accepted full papers, and accepted 2-page short papers. The invited papers and full papers will be published prior to the conference as a volume in the LNAI-FOLLI series, a subseries of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The short papers will be available prior to the conference on the conference website and will be included in the conference booklet.

Submissions need not be formatted in LNCS style! However, accepted full papers must be formatted in LNCS style, and must respect the page limit.

14th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science
Nancy, France, 19-26 July, 2011
Website: http://www.clmps2011.org/
The 14th CLMPS is organized under the patronage of the French Republic Presidency, the UNESCO, and the French National Commission for the UNESCO.

We are pleased to announce that the 14th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science website is now open for registrations and submissions. Please register at the following address:
http://www.clmps2011.org/en/registration.html

The deadline for submission has changed, it is now 31 December 2010. The important dates are:

Submission deadline: 31 December 2010
Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2011
Early registration deadline: 30 April 2011

You can either submit an abstract of a contributed paper or a proposal for a contributed symposium (of 3 up to 6 speakers).

We would be glad if you filled the registration form until 30 September 2010 by giving a provisional title of your contribution and the subsection to which it belongs, even if your final abstract is submitted after that date. This does not commit you to anything, but would help the organizers to acquire an early idea of what to expect.

The 14th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, one of the leading congresses in its field, will be held on July 19-26, 2011, in Nancy
 (France). The Congress will feature more than 50 invited speakers, several
 plenary symposia and lectures, as well as a general program for a wider
 audience. For the first time in its history, the Congress presents a special
 topic of interest that will be the focus of a series of lectures and symposia:

“Logic and Science Facing the New Technologies”

The four main sections of the Congress will be:
A. Logic
B. General Philosophy of Science
C. Methodological and Philosophical Issues of Particular Sciences
D. Methodological and Philosophical Issues in Technology

Invited speakers include (the list will be progressively updated on the (Congress’ website):

Yemima Ben-Menahem (Jerusalem)
Ulrich Berger (Swansea)
Craig Callender (San Diego)
Martin Carrier (Bielefeld)
Cristiano Castelfranchi (Roma)
Carlo Cellucci (Roma)
Heather E. Douglas (Knoxville)
Kevin Elliott (Columbia, South Carolina)
Michael Friedman (Stanford)
Roman Frigg (London)
Etienne Grandjean (Caen)
Martin Grohe (Humboldt, Berlin)
Ulrike Hahn (Cardiff)
Christopher Hitchcock (Caltech)
Paul Humphreys (Charlottesville)
Julia Knight (Notre Dame)
Saul Kripke (CUNY)
Hugh Lacey (Swarthmore)
William Lawvere (Buffalo, New York)
Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol)
Tim Lewens (Cambridge)
Christof Löding (Aachen)
Uskali Mäki (Helsinki)
Jean-Pierre Marquis (Montréal)
Donald McKenzie (Edinburgh)
Dale Miller (Ecole Polytechnique)
Joe Miller (Wisconsin)
Justin Moore (Cornell)
Alfred Nordmann (Darmstadt)
Paulo Oliva (London)
Dag Prawitz (Stockholm)
Hans Radder (Amsterdam)
Miklos Redei (London)
Philippe Schlenker (Paris)
Philip Scott (Ottawa)
Brian Skyrms (Irvine)
Patrick Speisegger (McMaster)
Wolfgang Spohn (Konstanz)
Josh Tenenbaum (M.I.T.)
Simon Thomas (Rutgers)
Peter Vanderschraaf (Merced)
Dag Westerståhl (Göteborg)

Further details can be found on the homepage of the Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science at the following address:
http://www.clmps2011.org/

Please note the option to receive by e-mail further information by signing up
for the Congress  newsletter at:
http://www.clmps2011.org/en/newsletter.html

We thank you in advance for forwarding this circular so that it can reach the widest audience possible.

Gerhard Heinzmann (Chair Organizing Committee)
Peter Schroeder-Heister (Chair General Programme Committee)

             4th INDIAN CONFERENCE ON LOGIC AND ITS APPLICATIONS
                                               January 9–11, 2011
                                            Delhi University, India
                                       http://ali.cmi.ac.in/icla2011

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 31 !!!
                            

CALL FOR PAPERS

ALI, the Association for Logic in India, announces the fourth edition of its biennial International Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA), to be held at the Delhi University, from January 9 to 11, 2011.

ICLA is a forum for bringing together researchers from a wide variety of fields that formal logic plays a significant role in, along with mathematicians, philosophers and logicians studying foundations of formal logic in itself. A special feature of this conference is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, and
 historical research on logic.

As in the earlier events in this series, we shall have eminent logicians as invited speakers. Pre-conference workshops during Jan 5-8 are also being planned. One such event is ‘LogICCC Meets India’ which will take place during Jan 7-8. For more information, see
 http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogICCCMeetsIndia. Details of other workshops will be posted on the conference website in due course. Details of the last ICLA (2009) may be found at http://ali.cmi.ac.in/icla2009.

Submission
———–
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in any area of logic and applications. Articles on mathematical and philosophical logic, foundations and philosophy of mathematics and the sciences, history of logic, Indian systems of logic, use of formal logic in areas of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, or on the relationship between logic and other branches of knowledge, are welcome.

Submissions must be in English and should provide sufficient detail to allow the programme committee to assess the merits of the paper. It should clearly present the context of the problem, summary of the main results and should contain the technical development directed to the specialist. Comparison with related work must be included. The submission may not exceed 12 pages using Springer’s
LNCS format(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
If necessary, detailed proofs of technical results can be included in a clearly marked appendix which may be read at the discretion of the programme committee. All submissions will be in electronic form and submitted via easychair submission system. Simultaneous submission to journals or to other conferences with proceedings is not allowed.

Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be made available at the time of the conference. It is expected that the conference proceedings will appear as a volume in the FoLLI series of Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; this will be confirmed soon.

Important Dates
Deadline for Submission (Extended):                   31 July 2010
Notification to Authors:                                        5 September 2010
Deadline for camera-ready papers:                      10 October 2010

For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at the conference.

Programme Committee
Mohua Banerjee (IIT Kanpur), co-chair
Dietmar Berwanger (ENS Cachan)
Achim Blumensath (TU Darmstadt)
Richard Booth (University of Luxembourg, and Mahasarakham University, Thailand)
Hans van Ditmarsch (University of Sevilla)
Didier Dubois (IRIT, Paul Sabatier University)
Valentin Goranko (Technical University of Denmark)
Wilfrid Hodges
Peter Jipsen (Chapman University)
Steven Lindell (Haverford College)
Benedikt Loewe (ILLC, Amsterdam)
Shahid Rahman (University of Lille 3)
R Ramanujam (IMSc, Chennai)
K Ramasubramanian (IIT Bombay)
Sundar Sarukkai (Manipal University)
Anil Seth (IIT Kanpur), co-chair
S P Suresh (Chennai Mathematical Institute)
Andrzej Szalas (Linkoeping University)
Katherine Thompson (University of Vienna)
Jouko Vaananen (University of Helsinki)
Scott Weinstein (University of Pennsylvania)

Contact

Any queries related to the conference may be sent to the following email address: icla@cse.iitk.ac.in.

Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK XIII) Conference
                    Groningen, the Netherlands, 11-15 July 2011

                             First Announcement

* Scope and Mission

The mission of the TARK conferences is to bring together researchers from a wide variety of fields, including Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography, Distributed Computing, Economics and Game Theory, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology, in order to further our understanding of interdisciplinary issues involving reasoning about rationality and knowledge.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, semantic models for knowledge, belief, and uncertainty, bounded rationality and resource-bounded reasoning, commonsense epistemic reasoning, epistemic logic, knowledge and action, applications of reasoning about knowledge and other mental states, belief revision, and foundations of multi-agent systems.

* Workshops
Two full-day workshops will precede and follow the conference: “Reasoning about other minds: logical and cognitive perspectives”,“Quantum physics meets TARK”.

* Important Dates
Submission of Abstracts: March 10th, 2011
Notification of Authors: April 29th, 2011
Camera Ready Copy of Accepted Papers due: May 20th, 2011
Conference Dates: 11-15 July 2011

* Programme Committee：
Natasha Alechina, University of Nottingham
Krzysztof R. Apt (PC chair), CWI and University of Amsterdam
Sergei Artemov, CUNY, New York
Hans van Ditmarsch, University of Sevilla
Aviad Heifetz, The Open University of Israel
Wiebe van der Hoek, University of Liverpool
Daniel Lehmann, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerome Lang, Universite Paris-Dauphine
Fenrong Liu, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Alessio Lomuscio, Imperial College London
Ron van der Meyden, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Eric Pacuit (tutorials chair), Tilburg University
Andres Perea, Maastricht University
Gabriella Pigozzi, University of Luxembourg
R. Ramanujam, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Sonja Smets, University of Groningen
Moshe Tennenholtz, Technion, Haifa and Microsoft, Herzliya
Rineke Verbrugge, University of Groningen

* Local Organization：
Sonja Smets
Rineke Verbrugge

PhDs in Logic III

February 17-18th, 2011
BRUSSELS

www.vub.ac.be/phdsinlogic2011/

FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PARTICIPATION

PhDs in Logic is an annual two-day graduate conference and winter school in logic. Each year we invite four established professors to do a tutorial on their work in two one-hour sessions. We also give about ten   PhD students the opportunity to do a thirty-minute presentation on (a) their own work or (b) an overview of some topic in their field.

Come February 17-18th, 2011 the following tutorials will take place in Brussels.

Eric Pacuit: Epistemic Logic
Sonja Smets: Quantum Logic
Mai Gehrke: Algebraic Logic
Peter Koepke: Set Theory

PhD students in logic with a background in philosophy, computer science, or mathematics are the intended audience for these tutorials. They are also the type of students we have in mind for our thirty-minute student sessions. Students interested in doing a talk should send a 500-1000 word abstract to phdsinlogic+abstracts@gmail.com by November 15th, 2010. If your abstract is accepted, you will be expected to give us a six to ten page paper by January 15tnh, 2011. We welcome students to participate in PhDs in Logic III regardless of whether they want to do a presentation. We also invite master students in logic, first year   postdocs, and logicians from disciplines other than philosophy, computer   science, and mathematics to apply. There is a 30 euros registration fee.

For more information, visit our website at www.vub.ac.be/phdsinlogic2011/.

Organizing Committee: Jonas De Vuyst, Lorenz Demey, Jean Paul Van Bendegem, Marc Denecker.

Scientific Committee: Benedikt Loewe, Leon Horsten, Marc Denecker, Jean Paul Van Bendegem.

Sponsors: Formal Epistemology Project (FEP), Centrum voor Logica en Wetenschapsfilosofie (CLWF), VUB Doctoral School of Human Sciences (DSh).

WoLLIC 2011
18th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation May 18th to 21st, 2011
University of Pennsylvania, USA

Scientific Sponsorship
Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics
(<http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~igpl/>IGPL.>)
The Association for Logic, Language and Information  (<http://www.folli.org/>FoLLI>)
Association for Symbolic Logic (<http://www.aslonline.org/>ASL?)
European Association for Theoretical Computer
Science (<http://www.eatcs.org/>EATCS)
Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (<http://www.sbc.org.br/>SBC>)
Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (<http://www.cle.unicamp.br/sbl/>SBL)

Organisation
<http://www.math.upenn.edu>Department> of Mathematics, <http://www.upenn.edu/>University> of Pennsylvania, USA
<http://www.cin.ufpe.br/>Centro> de Informática,
<http://www.ufpe.br/>Universidade> Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

 Call for Papers
 <http://wollic.org/>WoLLIC> is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and tutorials as well as contributed papers. The eighteenth WoLLIC will be held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, from May 18th
to 21st, 2011. It is sponsored by the <http://www.aslonline.org/>Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the
<http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~igpl>Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the <http://www.folli.org/>The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the <http://www.eatcs.org/>European Association for
 Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the <http://www.sbc.org.br/>Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), and the <http://www.cle.unicamp.br/sbl/>Sociedade Brasileira de Lógica (SBL).

Special Event
(tba)
Paper submission
Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief; formal methods in software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of a scholarly exposition
 accessible to the non-specialist, including motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages for references and technical appendices. The paper’s main results must not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues, including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2011 EasyChair website. (Please go to
<http://wollic.org/wollic2011/instructions.html>http://wollic.org/wollic2011/instructions.html>
for instructions.) A title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by January 1st, and the full paper by January 8 (firm date). Notifications are expected by February 21, and final papers for the proceedings will be due by March 1 (firm date).

Proceedings
The proceedings of WoLLIC 2011, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in Springer’s <http://www.springer.com/lncs>LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2011 issue of a scientific journal (soon to be announced).

Invited Speakers
(tba)

Student Grants
ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2011 will permit ASL student members to apply for a modest travel grant. See
<http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html>http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html>
for details.
Important Dates
January 1, 2011: Paper title and abstract deadline
January 8, 2011: Full paper deadline (firm)
February 21, 2011: Author notification
March 1, 2011: Final version deadline (firm)
Programme Committee
Krzysztof Apt (Amsterdam) (tbc)
<http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~sartemov/>Sergei Artemov (New York)
<http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/avigad/>Jeremy Avigad (Pittsburgh)
<http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csarnold/>Arnold Beckman (Swansea)
<http://www.mi.ras.ru/~bekl/>Lev Beklemishev (Moscow) (CHAIR)
<http://www.dm.unipi.it/~berardu/>Alessandro Berarducci (Pisa)
<http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~ablass/>Andreas Blass (Ann Arbor) (tbc)
<http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~sbuss/>Sam Buss (San Diego)
<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axj/>Achim Jung (Birmingham)
<http://staff.science.uva.nl/~bloewe/>Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam)
<http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~janos/>Janos Makowski (Haifa)
<http://www.let.uu.nl/~ctl/docenten/moortgat.html>Michael Moortgat (Utrecht)
<http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/>Andrew Odlyzko (Minneapolis) (tbc)
<http://www.phil.uu.nl/~oostrom/>Vincent van Oostrom (Utrecht)
<http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~prakash/>Prakash Panangaden (Montréal)
<http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/cis/parikh/>Rohit Parikh (New York)
<http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~pereira/>Fernando Pereira (Philadelphia) (tbc)
<http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~ruy>Ruy de Queiroz (Recife)
<http://www.poncelet.ru/pers/shen.htm>Alexander Shen (Marseilles and Moscow)
<http://www.cs.ru.nl/~spitters/>Bas Spitters (Nijmegen)
<http://www7.in.tum.de/~veith/>Helmut Veith (Wien)
<http://staff.science.uva.nl/~yde/>Yde Venema (Amsterdam) (tbc)
<http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~weinstei/>Scott Weinstein (Philadelphia)
<http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~frank/>Frank Wolter (Liverpool)

Organising Committee
<http://www.math.upenn.edu/~vnigam/>Vivek Nigam (UPenn)
<http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~ago>Anjolina de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco)
<http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~ruy>Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (cochair)
<http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~scedrov/>Andre Scedrov (UPenn) (co-chair)

Steering Committee
Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz.

Further information
Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee.

Web page
<http://wollic.org/wollic2011/>http://wollic.org/wollic2011/

Conference: Philosophy at Play

Location: University of Gloucestershire, UK

Dates: 12th and 13th April 2011

This will be an inter-disciplinary conference focusing on philosophical
aspects of play.

The deadline for the submission of a 300-500 word abstract is the 11th
October 2010. Notifications of acceptance / rejection will be sent by
30th November 2010. The full programme will be announced in January
2011.

Please email abstracts to philosophyatplay@glos.ac.uk

First Call For Papers:

Many philosophers have had something to say about play, and their ideas
are as diverse and contradictory as play itself. Variations operate
across time (ancient, modern and postmodern), place (‘Eastern’ and
‘Western’ philosophies and points in between) and discipline
(epistemology, ethics, metaphysics and so on). Yet rarely are the names
or work of key thinkers evident in policy or practitioner discussions
about play. This conference aims to build disciplinary and paradigmatic
bridges between scholars of philosophy and scholars of play,
particularly children’s play. Papers might include, but are not limited
to:

· Philosophers on play

· Play in philosophy: ancient, modern and postmodern

· Play and aesthetics

· Play and power

· Play and freedom

· Play, space and time

· The dialectics of play

· Play, ethics and morality 

· Game studies

· Philosophy of play as applied philosophy

· Philosophy of playwork

· Political philosophy, childhood and play

For further information or if you have any questions, please email
eryall@glos.ac.uk

More information about the conference, including cost, venue and
accommodation, will be provided at a later date.

More information about the conference, including cost, venue and
accommodation, will be provided at a later date.