The conference aims to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to discuss the philosophical, ethical, and legal questions raised by the onset of the so-called ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ and its emerging technologies. In some cases, the questions are long standing and recent technologies are leading to a novel reconsideration of them. In other cases, seemingly new questions are arising – questions that range from the ethical and legal to the epistemological and foundational. Submissions are invited on the philosophical, ethical, and legal dimensions of, among others: Algorithmic Automation Artificial Intelligence Artificial Life Big Data Cyber Warfare Data Mining Deep Learning Hypercomputation Machine Learning Open Data Personal Data Simulation and Virtual Reality Social Media Submissions from the following disciplines are especially encouraged: Applied Ethics Epistemology Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Information Philosophy of Computation Data Protection Law Interdisciplinary submissions from the following disciplines are equally encouraged: Data Science Cognitive Science Computer Science Mathematics Logic Robotics Submission of abstracts is via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=4irphel. Short (180-200 word) and extended (800-1000 word) abstracts should be prepared for blind review and submitted by 1 June 2019.
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