[A (free) ‘deep dive’ into philosophical issues of reality/fiction. -Matthew] British Society of Aesthetics Conference on Fictional Characters University of Southampton, 15th and 16th December 2015 http://bsafictionalcharacters.weebly.com/ Fictional characters have received unprecedented philosophical attention in last few years including the publication of the following monographs: Thomasson’s (1999) Fiction and Metaphysics, Priest’s (2005) Towards Non-Being, Azzuoni’s (2010) Talking About Nothing, Crane’s (2013) The Objects of Thought, Everett’s (2013) The Nonexistent, and the long awaited release of Kripke’s (2013) Reference and Existence. Despite the progress made by the above authors, there is still no consensus as to the best approach to the…

Call-for-Papers for AUIC 2016 17th Australasian User Interface Conference 2nd – 5th of February 2016 Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia http://auic2016.massey.ac.nz/ Overview The Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC) is the forum for user interface researchers and practitioners at the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2016). AUIC provides an opportunity for workers in the areas of HCI, CSCW, and pervasive computing to meet with colleagues and with others in the broader computer science community. We will be publishing via the ACM conference publication series for the first time, which will ensure good visibility of published papers. Important Dates Paper submission:…

Call For Papers – Game Studies Special Issue: “WAR/GAME” by Guest Editors – Pötzsch & Hammond Video games are an important sector of the global entertainment industry and AAA titles often have budgets and audiences similar to those of major Hollywood productions. Many of the commercially most successful games are war-themed titles that play out in what are framed as authentic real-world settings inspired by historical events. Parallel to this development, significant changes have occurred in the way Western industrialized nations wage actual wars. It has been argued that postmodern war increasingly resembles a videogame and that this form of…

Call for Papers IHCI 2015: 7th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad 14-16 December, 2015 http://ihci.iiita.ac.in Paper Submission Deadline: August 16, 2015 The international conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI) is a forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results at the crossroads of human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, signal processing and computer vision. It brings together engineers and scientists from around the world. It will also provide as a platform triggering further technological and research improvements through exchanges between industry and academic professionals. The 7th edition in the series, IHCI…

International Association for Computing and Philosophy – Annual Meeting June 14-17, 2016 University of Ferrara, Italy The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [http://www.iacap.org/] is delighted to announce that submissions are now being accepted for its 2016 annual meeting [http://www.iacap.org/iacap-2016], to be held on June 14-17 at the University of Ferrara, Italy [http://www.unife.it/international] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrara]. The meeting will be hosted by Professor Marcello D’Agostino [http://docente.unife.it/dgm] and Professor Marcello D’Alfonso [http://docente.unife.it/dlfmtv/]. IACAP has a long-lasting tradition of promoting philosophical dialogue and interdisciplinary research on all aspects of the computational and informational turn.…