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5-7 December 2008, 4th Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference (AP-CAP 2008), Bangalore, India

Date: 5-7 December 2008
Location: Bangalore, India
Deadline: 15 September 2008

AP-CAP 2008 is part of the series of conferences organised by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP, www-ia-cap.org). This is the first time this conference is being held in India. As with the other CAP conferences, AP-CAP 2008 will deal with all aspects of the "computational turn" that is occurring through the interaction of the disciplines of philosophy and computing. However, there are also some specific themes which would be the focus of this meet. The themes are:

(*) Contemporary issues in philosophy of information and computation
(*) Computation, algorithm and mathematics
(*) Computation and algorithms in Indian mathematics and linguistics
(*) Indian logic and its relationship with computation/computer science
(*) Culture and information technologies

For more information, see http://ia-cap.org/ap-cap08/ or contact Prof. Sundar Sarukkai at .

The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers to submit their papers for presentation. Deadline for submission of abstracts (no more than 1,000 words) is September 15, 2008.

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