| Event date |
August 22, 2018 - August 25, 2018 |
| Submission deadline |
March 16, 2018 |
| Location |
Boston, MA, USA |
| Host(s) |
Tufts University |
| Event website/information |
http://isos.wildapricot.org/Social-Ontology-2018 |
Social Ontology 2018
First Announcement & Call for Abstracts |
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Social Ontology 2018
The 11th Biennial Collective Intentionality Conference
Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
August 22-25, 2018
First Announcement & Call for Abstracts
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| In August 2018, Tufts University will host Social Ontology 2018, the 11th biennial conference in the Collective Intentionality series. This major conference will bring together international leaders across fields studying the nature of the social world and how to improve our models of it. |
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- Approaches to the metaphysics of the social world
- Collective intentionality and group cognition
- The nature of institutions, firms, and organizations
- The metaphysics of race and gender
- The nature of law and legal applications of social ontology
- Collective responsibility
Interdisciplinary contributions are encouraged.
- Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy, MIT
- Kit Fine, Silver Professor of Philosophy, NYU
- Daron Acemoglu, Killian Professor of Economics, MIT
- Scott Shapiro, Southmayd Professor of Law and Philosophy, Yale
- Edwin Etieyibo, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Univ. of Witswatersrand
- Amie Thomasson, Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth (tentative)
| Abstracts of 300-500 words (prepared for blind review) should be submitted to the conference EasyChair site: |
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https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=so2018
Deadline for submissions: Extended to March 16, 2018
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2018
Conference registration opens: May 1, 2018
Organizers:
Brian Epstein, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University
David Schweikard, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Flensburg
Details on the conference can be found at http://isosonline.org/Social-Ontology-2018
For more information, contact Stephen Martin ( stephen.martin@tufts.edu)
Please consider joining ISOS to participate in and help support the social ontology research community.
On the occasion of the conference, the International Social Ontology Society will award an essay prize in social ontology for early career scholars (up to six years after completing their PhD). The prize comes with an award of 500 euros and publication (after suitable revisions) in the Journal of Social Ontology. Please look for further announcements for details of the prize competition and deadlines for submission. For more information, contact David Schweikard (david.schweikard@uni-flensburg.de).
Sponsors:
Sponsors of this event include the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts, the Tufts Philosophy Department, the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts, the International Social Ontology Society, and the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research.
The Collective Intentionality conferences are a biennial series sponsored by the International Social Ontology Society. The previous ten events in this series have been held at Delft University of Technology in Den Haag, Netherlands (2016), Indiana University Bloomington (2014), and the Universities of Manchester (2012), Basel (2010), Berkeley (2008), Helsinki (2006), Siena (2004), Rotterdam (2002), Leipzig (2000) and Munich (1999).