Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The ontology of the social world; the nature and existence of social phenomena
• Collective intentionality
• The ontology of social kinds (e.g. race or gender or class)
• Social structures and opaque kinds of social facts
• Shared, joint or collective action
• Shared, collective, and corporate responsibility
• Collective or shared beliefs, intentions, and emotions
• Linguistic or mental representations of social phenomena
• Social skills, habits and practices
• Trust, cooperation, and competition
• The concept of social power and stratification
• The nature, evolution, and functioning of social norms
• The structure of institutions, firms, and organizations
• The ontology of money and economics including unintended effects
• The method(s) of social ontology
• Approaches to the metaphysics of the social world
• Critical social ontology
• Social norms
• Ontology and injustice and oppression
• Ideal and non ideal social ontology

Interdisciplinary contributions are strongly encouraged.