CFP: Social Ontology 2025
Submission deadline: August 5, 2025
Conference date(s):
August 5, 2025 - August 8, 2025
Conference Venue:
Trinity College Dublin, in cooperation with the International Social Ontology Society
Dublin,
Ireland
Details
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.