13-18 July 2008
Melbourne, Australia
WCP4 / The Fourth World Congress of Paraconsistency / July 13 to 18, 2008 -- http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/wcp4/ The Fourth World Congress of Paraconsistency is from July 13 to July 18, 2008 at Ormond College at the University of Melbourne. ** Call for Papers Papers will be accepted in all areas related to paraconsistency. We would especially welcome papers on * Systems of paraconsistent logic * Inconsistent mathematics * Paraconsistency and information processing * Paraconsistency and the philosophy of mathematics * Paraconsistency and the philosophy of science * Paraconsistency and the philosophy of logic We invite submission of an abstract of no more than one page (250 words) by December 15. Email your submission to wcp4-submission@unimelb.edu.au. Text or PDF are preferred formats for submission, MS Word is acceptable. (Make sure your email is no larger than 480KB, as our mail forwarding software rejects large emails.) Notification of acceptance will be made by February 28. ** Important Dates December 15: Submission of abstracts due. February 28: Notification of acceptance. **Registration A modest registration fee will be charged to cover conference running expenses. Details will be finalised by the end of 2007. ** Accommodation Bed and breakfast accommodation is available at Ormond College, the site of the conference. Conference participants wishing to stay in the college are asked to register for accommodation directly to Ormond College using the form available on our accommodation page. Hotel accommodation is also available near the conference site. For details of some of the hotels available, see the acommodation page at the conference website. -- http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/wcp4/accommodation.html ** Organising Committee The organising committee for WCP4 is Ross Brady (La Trobe), Mark Colyvan (Sydney), Dominic Hyde (Queensland), Ed Mares (Victoria University of Wellington), Chris Mortensen (Adelaide), Graham Priest (Melbourne), Greg Restall (Melbourne) and Koji Tanaka (Auckland). ** Stay in Touch To be kept in up-to-date with news of the conference, subscribe to our announcement mailing list wcp4-info by sending the message subscribe wp4-info to mailserv@unimelb.edu.au. We will send updates concerning WCP4 to this mailing list. Greg Restall, for the organising committee. -- Greg Restall * School of Philosophy restall@unimelb.edu.au * The University of Melbourne