Kaiserslautern, Germany - April 1-2, 2008

Fifth International Workshop on
Philosophy and Informatics

Topics of Interest PDF Print E-mail

WSPI 2008 focuses on conceptualizations, but contributions on philosophy and informatics in general are also invited. The main topics are:

  • Philosophical ontology in informatics
    • Ontology, terminology, and taxonomy
    • Recent trends in ontology engineering
    • Rormal Representations for Concepts
  • Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence
    • Application of Formal Representations
    • Reasoning in Semantic Technologies
    • Cognition as Inference and Induction
  • Logical Approaches to Formal Representations
    • Philosophical contributions
    • Epistemology in informatics and bioinformatics
  • Philosophically motivated reflections on representation formalisms in informatics
  • Limitations in formal representations
  • Common Grounds between Informatics and Philosophy