CFP: Social Ontology 2025

This is a call for submission to the flagship annual conference of the International Social Ontology Society, this year taking place at Trinity College Dublin August 5-8th, 2025.

Those interested should submit abstracts of 300-500 words to (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=so2025) by December 10th, 2024, on any area of social ontology.

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, gender, class)

- Social structures and opaque kinds of social facts

- Shared, joint, or collective action

- Shared, collective, or 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 function 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 encouraged.

Additionally, junior scholars will have the opportunity when submitting to signal interest in attending a one-day summer school event the day before the conference focused on how best to make interdisciplinary contributions to or with social ontology, led by experts with a demonstrated ability to make these contributions.