WCP4

The Fourth World Congress of Paraconsistency

July 13 to 18, 2008

The Fouth World Congress of Paraconsistency is from July 13 to July 18, 2008 at Ormond College at the University of Melbourne.

Registration

A registration fee will be charged to cover conference running expenses, the reception, lunches, and the conference dinner. The fee will be AU$360 for wage-earners, and AU$250 for students and unwaged. Payment will be required at the start of the conference.

To register for the conference fill out this form in an email to wcp4-submission@unimelb.edu.au.

Program of Events

The provisional program of events for the conference is available here.

The list of presentations is here.

Evening of Sunday July 13: Opening address, and welcome reception
Wednesday, July 16: rest day, including an excursion to Mornington Penninsula wineries including lunch and dinner (registration $130, at the registration desk on arrival).
Friday, July 18: conference dinner and party.

Arrival Details

If you're coming from far away to attend WCP4, you might like to look through these arrival details.

Important Dates

December 15: Submission of abstracts due.
February 28: Notification of acceptance.
February 4: List of participants posted.
~~February 28~~ March 25: Registration details posted.
April 30: Registration form due.
We're still accepting late registration for attendees to the conference. Use this form in an email to wcp4-submission@unimelb.edu.au.

Call for Papers

Papers will be accepted in all areas related to paraconsistency. But 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.

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 our acommodation page.

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 wcp4-info” to mailserv@unimelb.edu.au. We will send updates concerning WCP4 to this mailing list.

August 2007 • Greg Restall, for the organising committee.