Conference Announcement

Conference Aim and Scope: 

What is reason? What is rationality? For thousands of years, eastern and western philosophers have devoted themselves to finding the answers, including Aristotle, Plato, Confucius, Mencius, Kant, and Descartes. Their insights reflect a variety of conceptual, ontological and methodological viewpoints. However, when ancient wisdom meets cutting-edge research in cognitive science, is it undermined, intact, or, rather, does it contribute to modern research in logic, neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence? The purpose of this conference is to start an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural conversation in which scholars will investigate the nature of reason and of rationality. This conference will explore a broad range of descriptive and normative studies of reason and rationality, including the following:

•      Psychology of reasoning
•      The role of emotion in reason and rationality
•      Instrumental and practical rationality
•      Deductive, inductive, and abductive logic
•      Prediction, explanation, and theoretical reasoning
•      Practical reasoning and individual decision making
•      Game theory and collective decision making
•      Public Reason and moral rules
•      Reasons for Action/ Rationality in Action
•      Automated reasoning and artificial intelligence
•      The comparison between human and nonhuman primates
•      Reason/rationality analysis in Asian traditions

Dates & Venue:

14 Aug – 15 Aug 2014

Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica,

No. 128, Sec. 2, Academia Rd., Nankang, Taipei City 115, Taiwan.

Invited Speakers:

Dr. Tim Bayne 
       (Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester)
Dr. Ian Gold
       (Department of Philosophy, McGill University)
Dr. Ngar Yin Louis Lee
       (Department of Educational Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Dr. Shaun Nichols
       (Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona)




Call:

We invite submitted papers for the conference. Submissions are selected on the basis of quality and relevance to the topics of the conference. Please email your 300-word abstract  to Ms Lee (al41318 [AT] gate.sinica.edu.tw) in a Word document with the following information: Abstract title, affiliation, title, email address, and abstract.

         Abstracts due: 14 May 2014

         Full papers due: 31 July 2014

         Conference: 14 Aug –15 Aug 2014

      

Full Paper Submission:
Articles length must be approximately between 3.500 and 8.000 words. The manuscript should follow these criteria: double-spaced, Times New Roman in 12-point on A-4 size paper. Authors of accepted papers are kindly asked to submit their  full papers no later than 31 July 2014 to al41318 [AT] gate.sinica.edu.tw

Publication Plan:

The accepted conference papers will be reviewed and published either by the Institute or other prestige publishers. Here is a sample of our previous publications.

Registration:

31 May- 8 Aug 2013
If you would like to register for the conference, please send an email to Ms. Pei-Yun Lee al41318@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Organizer:

Philosophy Group, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Visa Information:

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Contact:

Dr. Tzu-Wei Hung (Conference chair)

Email: htw[AT]gate.sinica.edu.tw

Ms. Pei-Yun Lee (Research asistant )
Email: al41318 [AT] gate.sinica.edu.tw