International Association for Computing and Philosophy Conference — Noto 2027

IACAP 2027 — Noto, Italy

July 14–16, 2027 · University of Messina, Noto Campus, Sicily · Submissions due January 15, 2027

Submit a proposal

The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP, https://www.iacap.org) is pleased to put out this call for abstracts for its next conference in 2027.

  • Conference dates: July 14-16, 2027.
  • Conference location: University of Messina, Noto Campus, Sicily, Italy.
  • Conference host: Department of Cognitive Sciences, Psychology, Education, and Cultural Studies, University of Messina.
  • Conference Website: https://iacapconf.org

Important Dates

  • Extended abstracts for individual talks (up to 1000 words) due on: January 15, 2027.
  • Workshop proposals (up to 1000 words) due on: January 15, 2027.
  • Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2027.
  • Conference registration will open on: March 15, 2027.

Detailed Instructions

  • Title: A short and descriptive title which will be shown in the conference program.
  • Short Abstract: A short abstract of approx. 200 words that will be displayed in the conference program. Do not include a bibliography.
  • Extended Abstract: For an individual talk or workshop proposal (see below for more information on workshops). Maximum 1000 words excluding references. Participants will have the opportunity to publish their accepted/edited abstract/preprint on Zenodo before the program is published (https://zenodo.org/uploads/new?community=iacap-2027). Links to the online version will be published in the program. Note regarding PDF formatted full abstracts: If you have a typeset PDF of your extended abstract, you may upload it in addition.
  • Keywords: Please give us 5 or so keywords to assist us in peer review.
  • Track: Please choose the track which most closely aligns with your abstract’s topic. This sorting is to help us review the abstracts and to give us a baseline for paper grouping.
  • If possible, please include an ORCID link in your contact data.
  • Profile picture: The online version of the program may feature profile pictures, to help people find you during the conference and ask questions about your contribution. Adding a profile picture is voluntary.
  • Additional speakers: Please identify any co-authors and indicate who is presenting.
  • Notes: Any additional notes or context you believe will help us review your proposal.

Does your abstract need an early review due to visa or planning considerations? Please indicate this in the submission process. The submission page features a Notes section for this. Also, please try to upload these early review abstracts ASAP, if possible by mid December, and please don’t hesitate to write to us if need be.

AI policy: IACAP prides itself as a community of peers in close and meaningful communication with each other. Our size and culture reflect as much. Because of this, and despite their usefulness in other settings, we don’t want this communication to be between machines. Hence, we strongly discourage AI generated submissions.

Tracks

IACAP has a long tradition of promoting philosophical dialogue and interdisciplinary research on all aspects of computing. Its members have contributed to the philosophical and ethical debates about computing, information technologies, and artificial intelligence. The 2027 annual conference will continue this tradition by bringing together researchers from various fields who are interested in the topics covered in our tracks, such as:

  • Computation, Cognitive Science, and Cognition
  • Computational Methods in the Sciences
  • Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Epistemological Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Computing
  • Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Computation, Information, and Robotics
  • Human-Computational Systems Interaction
  • Information Culture and Society
  • Philosophy and History of Computing
  • Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
  • Philosophy of Artificial Life and Biologically Inspired Computing
  • Philosophy of Information and Information Technology
  • Robotics and Embodiment
  • SIG: Mind and Machines
  • Societal and Environmental Impact of Computing Technologies and Automated Systems
  • Theoretical Problems in Computer Science
  • Virtual Reality

Special Tracks

Documenting AI interactions in Philosophy Research

The Research Data Alliance (https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/documenting-generative-ai-interactions-in-research-interest-group/) has a forming interest group around norms of documentation of AI use in research. Brian Ballsun-Stanton (a co-chair of the RDA group) invites members of IACAP to share and discuss norms for documentation of effective AI use in our own research practice. This track invites a meta-reflection on documentation of effective use of AI within our own research, sharing both interesting methods and documentation.

AI and Scientific Discovery

After various endeavours in mathematical discovery by other AI companies earlier in 2026, one developer simultaneously released more than 700 AI-generated papers on 6 October that proposed – partial or complete – solutions to more than 300 long-standing theoretical problems in mathematics, computer science and physics. The scale and scope of these claims raises issues that arguably take the epistemological questions concerning machine learning and the automatisation of science that have by now become familiar IACAP topics at least one step further. To what extent may these proposals count as solutions at all? Does having provably solved a problem suffice? Or is meeting human standards of methodology and validation the decisive criterion? Even if a substantial share of the solutions can be demonstrated to work, and to be amenable to human scrutiny, will they be genuine discoveries and genuine contributions to human knowledge? How might AI or computer artefacts more generally affect the way in which scientific disciplines are defined and operate? Is a discipline defined by its characteristic questions, its methods, its standards of validation, its results, or some relation among these, or will pure predictive success suffice? We invite submissions that critically address these and related questions from various perspectives, including philosophy of mathematics and computer science and philosophy of science. There is ample space for nuanced analysis between endorsing the putative achievements in question and conjuring up a ‘mathocalypse’.

AI in Software Engineering

Software Engineering has so far been one of the fields most affected by AI. Many software projects, commercial and open source alike, now accept or even encourage LLM generated code. Often the use of AI is portrayed as necessary just to keep up with increased development speeds. Philosophy of technology has criticized similar technological determinisms in past technologies and the current one is not without its detractors either. Software engineers for example worry about incurring unmanageable amounts of technological debt, which would make large software project unmaintainable. It thus seems that software engineering will have to strike a balance between speed of development and maintainability. For this session we invite proposals which engage critically with the role of AI in software engineering from a philosophical, but also from an engineering point of view.

Workshop Proposals

A workshop typically lasts around 90 min. Various formats are possible, from a themed session with various pre-selected papers on a defined topic to book symposia. If you have an idea but are unsure about its fit, please contact us beforehand. For a workshop proposal, please provide (a) a short abstract (approx. 200-300 words) describing the workshop in such a way as to be displayed in the conference program. Please add (b) an extended abstract (approx.) 1000 words that describes and justifies the workshop topic in more detail. We also ask that you upload (c) a set of short abstracts for each paper in the workshop. Please note that all participants in a workshop need to register to the conference.

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