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CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION ====================== The conference PhML-2014 will be held on April 21--25, 2014 at the Euler International Mathematical Institute (EIMI), which is a research unit of the St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PDMI RAS). The conference PhML-2014 is endorsed by the American National Committee of the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (DLMPS) of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science (IUHPS), the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science, the Swedish National Committee for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.

The conference PhML-2014 is a sequel in the series of conferences intended to provide a forum for philosophers, mathematicians, linguists, logicians, and computer scientists who share an interest in cross-disciplinary research. Presentations will be given in English.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Toshiyasu Arai, Chiba University Edward Hirsch, PDMI RAS Wilfrid Hodges, Queen Mary University of London Makoto Kanazawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Alexander Leitsch, Vienna University of Technology Angus Macintyre, Queen Mary University of London Klaus Mainzer, University of Munich Per Martin-Lo"f, Stockholm University Ivan Mikirtumov, St. Petersburg State University Grigori Mints, University of Stanford -- chair Grigory Olkhovikov, Ural Federal University Vladimir Orevkov, PDMI RAS Rohit Parikh, The City University of New York Barbara Partee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Dag Prawitz, Stockholm University Oleg Prosorov, PDMI RAS Michael Rathjen, University of Leeds Andrei Rodin, Institute of Philosophy RAS, St. Petersburg State University Vladimir Rybakov, University of Liverpool Vladislav Shaposhnikov, Moscow State University Albert Visser, Utrecht University

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== Vladimir Orevkov, PDMI RAS Oleg Prosorov, PDMI RAS -- chair Andrei Rodin, Institute of Philosophy RAS, St. Petersburg State University Maxim Vsemirnov, PDMI RAS

PLENARY SESSIONS ================ At present, the following plenary speakers are confirmed: Dmitry Grigoryev, CNRS, Universite' Lille 1 Klaus Mainzer, University of Munich Yuri Manin, Max-Planck-Institut fu"r Mathematik, Bonn Grigori Mints, University of Stanford Aleksei Parshin, Steklov Institute of Mathematics RAS, Moscow Oleg Prosorov, PDMI RAS Andrei Rodin, Institute of Philosophy RAS, St. Petersburg State University Gabriel Sandu, University of Helsinki Anatol Slissenko, LACL, Universite' Paris-Est Cre'teil Nikolai Vavilov, St. Petersburg State University Anatoly Vershik, PDMI RAS

Each presentation of a plenary paper is allotted 55 min, which includes 10 min for questions and discussion.

PANEL DISCUSSION ================ The conference will feature a panel discussion entitled "Understanding complexity in cross-disciplinary research" allotted up to 90 min. Discussion will be led by Klaus Mainzer (University of Munich).

THEMATIC SESSIONS ================= Apart from plenary sessions, there will also be three parallel thematic sessions to present contributed papers: - Mathematical and logical methods in philosophy and in sciences of language; - Philosophical Insights into Logic and Mathematics; - Complexity in mathematics, philosophy, linguistics. Each presentation of a contributed paper is allotted 25 min, including 5 min for questions.

CALL for PAPERS =============== For presentation at thematic sessions, the conference PhML-2014 invites the submission of contributed papers on original and unpublished research relating to the interplay between philosophy, mathematics and linguistics. Papers from any tradition and from a wide variety of perspectives are welcome, including but in no way limited to the following topics: - New trends in the foundations of mathematics; - Complexity in mathematics, logic, linguistics; - Ontology of mathematics and the nature of mathematical truth; - The problem of abstract entities in mathematics, philosophy and linguistics; - Philosophical aspects of informatics, novel computational models and paradigms; - Philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of logic; - Mathematical investigation of natural language structures.

PAPER SUBMISSION ================ Papers should be prepared in LaTeX or MS Word using style files of PhML-2014 format and be submitted electronically as pdf and source files via e-mail: PhML-2014@pdmi.ras.ru. For more details, see: http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/2014/PhML/index_files/submission.html.

IMPORTANT DATES =============== - Submission deadline for contributed papers: March 1st, 2014 - Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2014 - Final date for camera-ready copy: March 31st, 2014 - Conference starts: April 21st, 2014

PROCEEDINGS =========== The Proceedings of PhML-2014, including both invited and contributed papers, will be published before the meeting as a volume in the EIMI's local series and distributed to the participants. It is planned that selected papers will be published at an international publishing house as a special post-conference issue.

PARTICIPATION ============= For further practical information, see: http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/2014/PhML/index.html