The 1st International Online Conference of the Journal Philosophies: Intelligent Inquiry into Intelligence-Contributing to the 2025 IS4SI Summit
10–14 Jun 2025
Diverse Conceptualizations of Intelligence, Diverse Methodologies of Intelligence Studies, The Unity in Diversity
Conference Announcement
The 1st International Online Conference of the Journal Philosophies: Intelligent Inquiry into Intelligence-Contributing to the 2025 IS4SI Summit
To be held online June 10-14, 2025, Deadline for Extended Abstracts March 15, 2025
Conference Chairs: Marcin J. Schroeder & Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
The complete conference announcement file is attached here. Please feel free to download it at your convenience.
Call for Contributions
Conference of the Journal Philosophies: Intelligent Inquiry into Intelligence will be held online June 10-14, 2025. Participation in the conference does not require any fee, but for logistic reasons, access to its sessions will require registration. The deadline for registration is June 5, 2025. The sessions (all in English) will have the form of oral presentations (of 30 minutes duration including 5 minutes for questions/comments), invited lectures, panel discussions, and poster presentations (carried out in parallel). The qualification for presenting (in oral or poster form) will be based on the review of extended abstracts of submissions with the notifications on the acceptance/rejection sent no later than May 15, 2025.
We invite structured extended abstracts of presented works to be submitted by March 15, 2025.
We welcome your submissions of extended abstracts prepared as explained below to: https://sciforum.net/user/submission/create/1216
More details of the submission procedure can be found in the Instruction for Authors.
The abstracts of 300-500 words in English should include:
- The title of the presentation.
- Intended format of presentation (oral, poster, or either) – the number of accepted oral presentations will be limited, so the choice means a preference that may not be accepted.
- Names and affiliations of all authors.
- Name and email address of the contact author
- A succinct description of the content of the work (as it is an extended abstract, it can include references)
- (Important) Short explanation of the philosophical issues addressed in the work.
The conference has as its main objective to inquire/provide/develop/promote philosophical foundations for the interdisciplinary study of intelligence. This justifies the expectation that all submitted works have significant philosophical content even if this content is not the central subject of the study. For instance, an empirical study may have important consequences for the philosophical questions listed in the Announcement of the conference (or other relevant philosophical questions) justifying the claim of philosophical significance. However, these questions and consequences have to be directly identified in the last part of the abstract.
All accepted extended abstracts will be displayed on the website of the Conference. All presented works can be published without APC but based on peer review in the proceedings soon after the Conference, but the volume of these contributions has to be limited to no more than eight pages. More extensive works without any limit of volume developed from these contributions may be published in Philosophies after the usual peer review carried out by the journal with a discounted APC.
Event Chairs
1. Professor Emeritus, Akita International University, Akita, Japan,
2. Editor-in-Chief, the journal Philosophies of MDPI.
1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden,
2. School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden.
Invited Speakers
Prof. Dr. Andrew Adamatzky
Professor of Unconventional Computing in the Department of Computer Science and Creative Technologies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
Head of the Unconventional Computing Laboratory UWE Bristol UK.
https://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/
Prof. Dr. Selmer Bringsjord
Professor of Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Logic & Philosophy, Management.
1. Director, Rensselaer AI & Reasoning (RAIR) Lab; 2. Graduate Program Director.
https://rair.cogsci.rpi.edu/
Dr. David Gamez
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at Middlesex University, London, UK.
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https://www.davidgamez.eu/
Prof. Dr. Michael Levin
The Levin Lab, Tufts University, School of Arts and Sciences. Department of Biology.
Allen Discovery Center at Tufts, Tufts University TCRDB, Tufts/UVM: ICDO, Harvard University Wyss Institute, Tufts University Stibel Dennett Consortium for Brain and Cognitive Science, The Proteus Institute, MIT: Science and Technology Center EBICS, Unravel Biosciences, Morphoceuticals Inc., Fauna Systems, Astonishing Labs. Editor of Journals: Bioelectricity (Co-Editor-in-Chief), Collective Intelligence (Founding Associate Editor), Laterality (Member of the Editorial Advisory Board)
https://sciprofiles.com/profile/128126
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Magnani
Professor, Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy (Ret.).
1. Director: Computational Philosophy Laboratory; 2. Editor-in-Chief: Springer Book Series SAPERE Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, http://www.springer.com/series/10087.
http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/wordpress/
Assoc. Prof. Marcin Milkowski
Associate professor in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Chair of the Section for Logic and Cognitive Science.
http://marcinmilkowski.pl/en
Prof. Dr. Vincent C. Müller
A. v. Humboldt Professor, Philosophy & Ethics of AI
Director, Centre for Philosophy and AI Research {PAIR}, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).
http://pair.fau.eu; http://www.sophia.de
Prof. Dr. Diane Proudfoot
Professor of Philosophy, University of Canterbury - TE WHARE WĀNANGA O WAITAHA, New Zealand.
Member of the Editorial Board of Philosophies.
https://profiles.canterbury.ac.nz/Diane-Proudfoot
Prof. Dr. Oron Shagrir
Vice-President for International Affairs; Schulman Chair in of Philosophy.
Professor of Philosophy and of Cognitive and Brain Sciences; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
https://oronshagrir.huji.ac.il/
Prof. Dr. Jordi Vallverdú
B. Phil, B. Mus, M.Sci, Ph.D. Professor, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Catalonia & ICREA Acadèmia Researcher.
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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jordi-Vallverdu; https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/persons/jordi-vallverdu-segura-3
Dr. Hector Zenil
Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer, School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine & King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence, King’s College London, UK.
1. BSc Math (UNAM), PGCert Nanotech (Oxon), MPhil Logic (Paris 1/ ENS), PhD CompSci (Lille), PhD Phil (Sorbonne); 2. Academic Entrepreneur in Residence at the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering; 3. Bridge AI Innovate UK Scientific Advisor at The Alan Turing Institute; 4. Founder and Director at Oxford Immune Algorithmics; 5. Board Trustee at The British Society for Research Ageing; 6. Elected member at The London Mathematical Society; 7. Fellow of the British Royal Society of Medicine; 8. Member of the Canadian College of Health Leaders; 9. Founding member of the EPSRC Future Blood Network.
https://sciprofiles.com/profile/23312
Registration
The registration for IOCPh 2025 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 5th June 2025 .
Instructions for Authors
IOCPh 2025 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
Important Deadlines
Deadline for abstract submission: 15th March 2025
Abstract Acceptance Notification: 15th May 2025 . You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Certificates of Participation are available in your logged-in area of Sciforum.net, under “My certificates” after the conference.
Abstract Submission
Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "Submit Abstract" function once logged into the system. No physical template is necessary.
The abstracts of 300-500 words in English should include:
- The title of the presentation.
- Intended format of presentation (oral, poster, or either) – the number of accepted oral presentations will be limited, so the choice means a preference that may not be accepted.
- Names and affiliations of all authors.
- Name and email address of the contact author
- A succinct description of the content of the work (as it is an extended abstract, it can include references)
- (Important) Short explanation of the philosophical issues addressed in the work.
Detailed Requirements:
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
Oral Presentation and Slides Submission
The slot for the oral presentation is 30 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 25 mins, leaving at least 5 mins for the Q&A session.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.
Poster Presentation
Poster:
1. Should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures and graphs where necessary.
2. File format: PDF (.pdf).
3. Size in pixel: 1,080 width x 1,536 height–portrait orientation.
4. Size in cm: 38.1 width x 54.2 height–portrait orientation.
5. Font size: ≥16.
Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3)
You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded here.
All the posters submitted by authors will be displayed online in Poster Gallery.
Potential Conflicts of Interest
It is the author's responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
Copyright
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 5 awards including the Best Oral Presentation Award and Best Poster Award.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 3
The Best Oral Presentation Award is given to the paper judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
There will be three winners selected for the Best Oral Presentation Award. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Number of Awards Available: 2
The Best Poster Award is given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
There will be two winners selected for the Best Poster Award. Each winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF.
Publication Opportunities
Proceeding Paper Publication
Full author names
Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
Methods
Results and Discussion
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Riley Liu
Ms. Allie Shi
Email: iocph2025@mdpi.com