Call for Submissions:
Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE) 2025
September 24-26, 2025
Rome, Italy
https://cepe2025.uniroma2.it/
Deadline for submissions of abstracts, full papers, panels and roundtables: January 31, 2025 (extended)
Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE) is a INSEIT conference series. The CEPE conference series is recognized as one of the premier international events on computer and information ethics attended by delegates from all over the world. CEPE is held biennially, and is organized by INSEIT (the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology). Conferences are held about every 24 months, alternating between Europe and the United States.
The next CEPE Conference will be held at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata; Department of History, Cultural Heritage, Education and Society from September, 24th to 26th, 2025, in collaboration with the Ionian University Research Team, IHRC (Information: History, Regulation and Culture) and The University for Peace UNO Rome branch.
We invite submissions for the CEPE 2025 Conference. The main theme will be on “Artificial Intelligence: Normative Implications and Philosophical Challenges”. As AI continues to pervade various aspects of human life, from healthcare to governance, it brings forth a plethora of normative questions and philosophical dilemmas that demand rigorous examination and reflection.
Artificial intelligence technologies raise profound ethical, legal, and social questions that intersect with fundamental philosophical inquiries. The CEPE 2025 Conference aims to explore the normative implications of AI development and deployment, as well as the philosophical challenges it poses to our understanding of freedom, agency, responsibility, autonomy, and society.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Ethical considerations in AI design, development, and deployment
- Algorithmic bias and fairness in AI systems
- Gender bias in designing AI systems
- Privacy and data protection in the age of AI
- Legal and regulatory frameworks for AI governance
- Human rights and AI ethics
- AI and the future of work
- Autonomous systems and moral decision-making
- Philosophical foundations of AI ethics
- The nature of consciousness and AI
- AI and the concept of personhood
- Social implications of AI based technologies
- Human interaction with Intelligent embodied systems
- Leadership and governance of AI
- History of philosophical debates on AI
- AI in military and warfare
- Cyberharrassment and cyberbullism
- Democracy and political implications of AI use
- Information access and search engines and other related topics.
- AI in science fiction
- Use of AI in education: ethical and philosophical problems
- Learning: philosophical problems
- Other topics related to risk: cybersecurity, internet studies, cryptocurrencies, green transition and the Internet of Things.
- AI and Copyright
- AI and cultural heritage ethics
We welcome submissions from scholars working in philosophy, ethics, law, computer science, social science, psychology, history, education and related disciplines. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are encouraged.
Submission Guidelines: All abstracts should be written in English and prepared according to the APA guidelines and should not be less than 500 and not exceed 800 words. Accepted abstracts will be turned into papers (yet written in English and prepare according to the APA guidelines). Papers should be no more than 3000 words excluding bibliography. Submissions should be sent to cepe2025.rome@gmail.com by the dates written below. All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review. All accepted abstracts will be included in the CEPE 2025 book of abstracts and selected papers will be published in international journals (see below).
Important Dates:
Abstracts/Full Papers/Panels/Roundtables Submission Deadline: 31st January 2025 (extended),
Notification of Acceptance just for abstracts: 2nd March 2025 (extended),
Full Manuscript Due: 15 May 2025,
Final notification of Acceptance for all submissions: 15 June 2025,
Conference date: 24-26 September 2025.
NOTE: Applicants can send first an abstract or a full paper, by 1.1.2025. Once accepted, an abstract can be turned in a full paper should the applicant be interested to be selected for publication in one of the journals below by 15.05.2025. If you miss the deadline 1. you can still send a full paper by the deadline 3.
Co-Organizers:
Dr. Antonio Marturano, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy and INSEIT
Prof. Marco Innamorati, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
For inquiries, please contact Antonio Marturano at antonio.marturano@uniroma2.it
Selected papers will be published on special issues of high quality academic journals such as:
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society
Orbis idearum
Leadership Journal
Etica & Politica Ethics & Politics
World Futures
International Review of Information Ethics
MORE INFORMATION:
For full details please visit https://cepe2025.uniroma2.it/
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