Fwd: [iacap-announce] Re: Special issue of TopiCS on mathematical practice and cognition

[glen ep ropella]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1


Given our earlier seminar on math, I thought this might be of interest.

- -glen

- -------- Original Message --------
Subject: [iacap-announce] Re: Special issue of TopiCS on mathematical
practice and cognition
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:52:17 +0000
From: Luciano Floridi <[hidden email]>
To: Iacap announce <[hidden email]>
CC: Alison Pease <[hidden email]>


On 24 Feb 2011, at 17:47, Alison Pease wrote:

Apologies for cross-postings.


We are pleased to announce that a special issue of Topics in Cognitive
Science (TopiCS) will be devoted to the theme of mathematical pratice
and cognition.


Call for Papers:

Researchers in mathematical practice and cognition
are forming increasingly well-established communities with independent
approaches and methodologies. The aim of this topiCS issue is to
establish and strengthen connections between these and other areas of
research, and, where relevant, to relate work carried out in such
arenas to the cognitive science mainstream. Thus, this
interdisciplinary issue aims to present commonalities and interactions
between researchers who investigate how people do mathematics.

Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

- - Mathematical cognition (mechanisms in the mind for mathematical
  thinking, as studied by cognitive scientists, psychologists and
  linguists. Examples include embodied cognition, mathematics and
  language, metaphors and conceptual blends used in mathematics);

- - Perspectives on mathematical practice (observable behaviours, as
  analysed by historians and philosophers of mathematics and
  mathematicians themselves. Examples include ways in which
  mathematical definitions or axioms evolve, the role of analogy in
  mathematics, and heuristics for mathematical discovery);

- - Social aspects of mathematics (interactions between mathematicians,
  or between teachers/students of mathematics, as studied by
  sociologists of mathematics, philosophers of informal mathematics
  and mathematics educators. Examples include the concept of a
  mathematical community, social constructivism as a philosophy of
  mathematics, and constructivism in mathematics education);

- - AI approaches to mathematical thinking (computational
  representations of some of the above mechanisms, techniques and
  interactions, produced by AI researchers and cognitive
  scientists. Examples include computational models of cognitive or
  philosophical theories of mathematical thinking, and developmental
  robotics).


Key dates:

Submission: Wednesday: 20th April
Author's Notification: Tuesday: 24th May
Deadline for final camera-ready copies: Friday 24th June


Website:

Please see http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/apease/aisb10/journal.html
for details. Note that this page is under construction and will
change.


- --
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.




___________________________________________________________
Luciano Floridi  |
www.philosophyofinformation.net<http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/>

The Philosophy of
Information<http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199232383.do> (OUP, 2011)

Information - A Very Short
Introduction<http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199551378.do> (OUP,
2010)

The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer
Ethics<http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2712923/?site_locale=en_GB>
(CUP, 2010)

Philosophy & Technology<http://www.springerlink.com/content/121828/>
journal (Springer)








-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

iD8DBQFNZq+3pVJZMHoGoM8RAjZfAKCDoeAgqn/eES87MBCYyAJAiBf4UACdHgis
jS9rmR0TDQd199arekv6EeA=
=6DPX
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

============================================================
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org