CALL FOR PAPERS
Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy 2009 will be held on October 1st-2nd, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. The conference will be hosted at the University of Tokyo's Sanjo Conference Hall. Keynotes speeches will be given by Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University) and Professor Shinsuke Shimojo (Caltech). This year AP-CAP 2009 will be held in conjunction with the Devices that Alter Perception workshop, which will form a special track.

The conference invites papers from philosophy, computer science, robotics, and media arts. Practitioners of these and related fields like artificial intelligence, ethics, human-computer interaction, and society-technology studies will debate and demonstrate new research. The conference will foster a scholarly dialogue between designers and critics of computing systems.

TIMELINE
• July 15th, 2009: Deadline for abstract submission
• August 15th, 2009: Abstract acceptance notification
• September 1st, 2009: Early registration deadline
• September 15th, 2009: Camera-ready papers due
• September 21st, Papers available online
• October 1st-2nd, 2009: AP-CAP 2009 Conference

CONFERENCE FORMAT
The conference will consist of parallel tracks spanning a number of topics of relevance to both computing and philosophy. Abstracts should be written specifically with one of the conference’s eight tracks in mind. Abstract reviews will be double-blind (both for authors and reviewers).

ONLINE MATERIALS
The call for papers, information for attendees, Word and LaTeX templates, online paper submission form and registration are all hosted at:

http://ia-cap.org/ap-cap09/

Following acceptance, papers will be made available online for commentary and also public voting in order to award the AP-CAP 2009 best paper prize.

SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract limited to 1,000 words. The deadline for abstract submission will be July 15th, 2009 at 23:59 GMT. At submission time, authors should indicate a track for abstract consideration. Camera-ready papers are due on September 15th and should be A4 paper size and less than 10 pages and under 2 megabytes in size.