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- CALL FOR PAPERS
- ON THE TOPIC OF PHILOSOPHY AND COMPUTERS
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- A Special Issue of Idealistic Studies
- An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy and Science
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- I. Idealistic Studies
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- Idealistic Studies is a journal of philosophy that is entering
- its twenty-third year of publication. Since its inception,
- articles published have focussed on idealist themes in many areas
- of philosophy. One of the important tasks of each generation of
- philosophers is to recast and interpret the perennial questions
- of philosophy in terms of the idioms of their time. Among the
- most important idioms of our time is science. Thus, we want to
- expand the scope of Idealistic Studies to include idealist and
- nonidealist issues in contemporary science in addition to the
- topics we have traditionally covered. In addition to the claims
- made by researchers in artificial intelligence, interesting
- philosophical problems surface in such diverse areas as
- theoretical biology, systems theory, quantum mechanics, and
- computing theory. The role of mind in nature and science, the
- resurgence of the notion of self-organizing systems, the
- appearance of chaos in both classical and quantum dynamics, and
- the advent of virtual realities sustained by digital computers:
- these and other issues have emerged in just the last thirty
- years. We hope to attract philosophers with interests in science
- and scientists with interests in philosophy to reflect on these
- developments. Idealistic Studies publishes thrice yearly, and the
- new format includes reserving the first issue of each year for a
- special topic.
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- II. Topics For the Special Issue of 1993
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- The premier issue of the new journal will focus on the topic:
- Computers and Philosophy. We construe this subject very broadly.
- Papers may engage, but are not limited to, such topics as:
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- * the uses of computers in teaching and doing philosophy,
- * the role, if any, of "expert systems" in philosophy: the
- plausibility of algorithms for deciding moral situations
- * the role of computers in visualizing and even creating new
- problems and proofs in science and mathematics,
- * the role of the computer in the humanities,
- * the status of the debate on artificial intelligence,
- * the implications of artificial life,
- * the role of the computer in society and our daily lives,
- * the ontological and ethical issues concerning virtual reality
- reality including: virtual identities, software agents, and
- cyberspace entities
- * the evidential value of computer generated photoimages
- * the claims made about the computer-born and sustained
- disciplines of chaos theory and fractal geometry: so they
- constitute a revolution in science?
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- III. Deadline for Submissions
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- Papers should be submitted before December 15, 1992.
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- IV. Format
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- All papers will be rigorously refereed, and should conform to the
- following rules.
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- * All manuscript submissions should include three versions: two
- on disk and one hardcopy:
- a. On disk
- i. a copy of the manuscript in ASCII format
- ii. a copy of the manuscript in the format of your word
- processor
- b. Hardcopy
- i a copy of the manuscript on paper
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- * No submissions over the net.
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- * Please provide a short abstract of the paper in a separate file.
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- * The formatted version of the paper should
- i. contain no page formatting
- ii. contain no imbedded footnotes
- iii contain no page numbers
- iv. be single spaced
- v. use italics for emphasis
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- Questions and submissions should be delivered to:
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- Idealistic Studies
- Philosophy Department
- Clark University
- 950 Main Street
- Worcester, MA 01610-1477
- Attention: Editors
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- Telephone: (508) 793-7414
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