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
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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
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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)
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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.
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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
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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).
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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).
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To see the ENPOSS 2012 special issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, click here.