"Robophilosophy": Exploring the consequences of a robot revolution

International Research Conference "Envisioning Robots in Society-Politics, Power, and Public Space". From February 14 to 17, the University of Vienna is going to host some of the greatest thinkers from the field of humanities research on social robotics. Approaches and ideas are presented under the theme "Envisioning Robots in Society - Politics, Power, and Public Space", with involved disciplines ranging from philosophy, robotics, anthropology and psychology to law and economy. The conference program features keynotes by Joanna Bryson, from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bath, and Hiroshi Ishiguro from the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University, among others. The biennial series was inaugurated in 2014 as the world's first series in this field by the international research network Transdisciplinary Studies in Social Robotics (TRANSOR). The Robophilosophy conference of 2018 will focus on philosophical questions raised by social robotics in all systematic areas of philosophy; e.g. ontology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and ethics. However, since robophilosophy is interdisciplinary by definition, it concerns researchers in philosophy, robotics, anthropology, psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, law, economy, sociology, and art.