TETHICS 2025 calls for papers from computing sciences and related fields that present scientific contributions on topics and themes related to technology ethics.
Suitable topics and themes include but are not limited to:
– Data and AI ethics
– Ethical design of computing technologies
– Ethics in software engineering and software development
– Philosophical foundations of technology ethics
– Technology ethics in specific application domains (e.g., education, medicine, military)
– Ethics of automation and digitalization
– Business ethics
– Teaching technology ethics
– Regulation and governance related to computing
– Responsible computing
– Technologically mediated communication and ethics
We encourage people from different fields, philosophical and scientific disciplines and submit their work. To provide early-career opportunities, TETHICS 2025 also encourages PhD students and undergraduate students to submit their work and participate in the conference.
A poster session will also be organized, providing an opportunity for students and early-career researchers to present research plans, initial work, and tentative findings.
If you wish to be only included in the poster session without submitting a paper, please contact conference co-chair Ville Vakkuri directly (ville.vakkuri@uwasa.fi).
Submission instructions:
TETHICS2025 accepts two types of papers:
- Short papers (5-9 pages and 2500 to 4000 words, including references)
- Long papers (10-15 pages and 5000 to 7500 words, including references)
- Submitted papers are expected to be include original content of good quality, and to meet applicable research ethical standards. Working papers are also welcomed, provided the submitted work meets the aforementioned criteria. More than one (1) first-author papers will not be accepted from any given author. An author may, however, be included as a co-author (e.g., second or third author) in other papers submitted to TETHICS2025.
Deadlines:
- Deadline for submissions: 24.4.2025 (AOE time 23:59)
- Date for decisions: 14.6.2025
- Deadline for camera-ready versions: 14.8.2025
Formatting and submitting the paper:
- Authors should use the CEUR template for single-column manuscripts and follow the formatting guidelines included therein.
- The template is available for both Microsoft Word and Overleaf.
- Papers should be submitted through EasyChair carefully following the required format and other instructions.
Review process:
Submitted papers will go through a double-blind review process. Authors of submitted papers are expected to review other submissions. The organizers retain the right to reject (a) papers lacking proper anonymization and (b) papers that are not formatted according to the submission guidelines without review.
Accepted papers:
Authors of the accepted papers will be invited to revise their work, if necessary, prior to submitting final, “camera-ready” versions.
Both full and short papers will be submitted for open-access format online publication in CEUR Workshop Proceedings. The CEUR Workshop Proceedings are under Creative Commons license, leaving the copyrights to the author(s).
Conference presentations:
TETHICS 2025 emphasizes the role communication in technology ethics. Therefore we hope that conference presentations will be accessible and tailored to a broad audience – including academics, industry practitioners, non-professionals, and other stakeholders.
Contact:
If you have any questions, please contact conference co-chair Ville Vakkuri (ville.vakkuri@uwasa.fi).