Past ENPOSS

ENPOSS 2025 University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Italy 10-12 September, 2025 Keynote Speakers Stéphanie Ruphy (ENS Paris) Muhammad Ali Khalidi (CUNY) Book Symposium Northcott, R. “Science for a Fragile World,” Oxford University Press, 2025. To see the conference program, click here. ENPOSS 2024 University of Bergen, Norway 28 August – 30 August, 2024 Keynote Speakers Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) Federica Russo (Utrecht University) Book Symposium Mantzavinos, C. “The Constitution of Science,” Cambridge University Press, 2024 To see the conference program, click here. ENPOSS 2023 Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands 30 August – 1 September 2023 Keynote Speakers Alison Wylie (The University of British Columbia) Julian Reiss (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz) Book Symposium Newfield, C., Alexandrova, A., John, S. (eds.) “Limits of the Numerical. The Abuses and Uses of Quantification,” University of Chicago Press, 2022 To see the conference program, click here. To see the 2023 ENPOSS special issues of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, see here. ENPOSS 2022 University of Malaga, Spain 21-23 September 2022 Keynote Speakers Marion Godman (Aarhus University) María Jiménez Buedo (UNED, Madrid) Caterina Marchionni (Helsinki University) To see the conference program, click here. To see the 2022 ENPOSS special issues of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, see here. ANPOSS/ENPOSS/POSS-RT 2021 Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan  4 – 7 March 2021 Keynote speakers: Anna Carabelli (Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale) Ian Jarvie (York University) Keiichi Noe (Tohoku University) Henry Richardson (Georgetown University) John Weymark (Vanderbilt University) To see the conference program, click here. To see the 2021 ENPOSS special issues of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, click here. ENPOSS 2020 Unversité Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France  14 – 18 September 2020 Keynote speakers: Vincent Descombes (EHESS, Paris) Francesco Guala (Università degli Studi di Milano) Book Symposia Mat Paskins and Mary S. Morgan eds., An Anthology of Narrative Science, https://www.narrative-science.org/library-of-narrative-science-cases.html. Claire Bidart, Alain Degenne, and Michel Grossetti, Living in Networks: The Dynamics of Social Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. To see the conference program, click here. To see the 2020 ENPOSS special issues of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, click here. ENPOSS 2019 The National Technical University of Athens, Greece 28 – 30 August 2019 Keynote speaker: Dan Sperber (CEU Budapest and Institut Nicod, ENS, Paris) Book Symposium Paul Roth, The Philosophical Structure of Historical Explanation, Northwestern University Press, 2019 To see the conference program, click here. To see the 2019 ENPOSS special issues of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, click here. ENPOSS/RT 2018 Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany August 30 – September 1, 2018 Keynote speakers: – Maria Kronfeldner (Central European University, Budapest) Explanatory looping effects – Martin Kusch (University of Vienna) Georg Simmel on the Relationship between Philosophy and Sociology Book Symposium Stephen P. Turner “Cognitive Science and the Social,” Routledge, 2018. Panellists: Stephen Turner (University of South Florida), Uljana Feest (Leibniz Universität Hannover), and Byron Kaldis (The National Technical University of Athens). To see the conference program, click here. To see the 2018 ENPOSS special issues of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, click here for part I and here for part II. ENPOSS 2017 Cracow University of Economics, Poland September 20-22 2017 Keynote speakers (to hear a talk, click on the title): – Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge University) Are social scientists experts on values? – Bartosz Brożek (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) The Architecture of the Legal Mind – Daniel Hausman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Social Scientific Naturalism Revisited Book Symposia Daniel Little “New Directions in the Philosophy of Social Science,”  Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016. Panellists: Daniel Little (University of Michigan-Dearborn), Gianluca Manzo (GEMASS & University of Paris-Sorbonne), and Federica Russo (University of Amsterdam). Chrysostomos Mantzavinos “Explanatory Pluralism,” Cambridge University Press, 2016. Panellists: Chrysostomos Mantzavinos (University of Athens), Jaakko Kuorikoski (University of Helsinki), and Erik Weber (Ghent University). Łukasz Hardt “Economics Without Laws. Towards a New Philosophy of Economics,” Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Panellists: Lukasz Hardt (University of Warsaw), Pawel Kawalec (Catholic University of Lublin), and Jesús Zamora-Bonilla (UNED, Madrid). To see the conference program, click here. To see the 2017 ENPOSS special issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, click here. ENPOSS 2016 University of Helsinki, Finland August 24-26 2016 Keynote speakers (to hear a talk, click on the title): – Helen Longino (Stanford University) Scale Matters — In Epistemology and in Social Analysis – Brian Epstein (Tufts University) What are social groups? Their metaphysics and how to classify them – Christian List (LSE) What is it like to be a group agent? To see the conference program, click here. To see the 2016 ENPOSS special issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, click here. RT/ENPOSS 2015 University of Washington, USA 8-10 May, 2015 Keynote speakers (to hear a talk, click on the title): – Abby Stewart (University of Michigan): Judging Others in the Academy: Implications of Uncertainty and Bias – William Wimsatt (University of Minnesota, University of Chicago): Scaffolding and Entrenchment in Cultural Evolution To see the conference program, click here. To see the 2015 RT/ENPOSS special issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, click here. ENPOSS 2014 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain 10-12 September, 2014 Keynote speakers (their talks are not available): – Margaret Gilbert (University of California, Irvine): Due to unfortunate circumstances, Margarey Gilbert was unable to attend the conference. We warmly thank Paul Roth for accepting to replace her: – Paul Roth (University of California, Santa Cruz): What Would It Be to Be a Norm? – Uskali Mäki (University of Helsinki): Scientific Imperialism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly To see the conference program, click here. To see the ENPOSS 2014 special issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, click here. ENPOSS/RT 2013 University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Italy 3-4 September, 2013 Keynote speakers (their talks are not available): – Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania): Punishment, Reward and Compensation in Ultimatum Interactions – Nancy Cartwright (University of Durham/ University of California San Diego): Will Your Policy Work? Experiments vs. Models To see the conference program, click here. To see the 2013 ENPOSS/RT special issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, click here.  The title of the issue should have been “Selected Papers from the ENPOSS/RT Meeting.” ENPOSS 2012 University of Copenhagen, Denmark September 21-23 2012   Keynote speakers (to see a talk, click on the title): – Peter Hedström (Institute for Futures Studies): Macro Dynamics: A Simulation Perspective – Philip Pettit (Princeton University): Three Doctrines in Social Ontology – Stephen Turner (University of South Florida): What Can We say about the Future of Social Science? – Björn Wittrock (Uppsala University) Social Sciences in Their Contexts, Reconstructions and Continuities To see the conference program, click here. To see the ENPOSS 2012 special issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, click here.