CFP: ISOS Social Ontology 2026

The call for abstracts is now open for Social Ontology 2026. The conference will be held in-person in Krakow, Poland.

We invite submissions of abstracts of papers/talks suitable for 20 minute presentations. Abstracts must have 300-500 words and be prepared for anonymous review.

Use this submission link from Microsoft CMT service to submit your abstract:

https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ISOS2026/ 

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

This edition aims to focus on interdisciplinary research, including application of ideas from social ontology in solving problems of legal and political philosophy in the following areas:

• Metaphysics & Law
• Ontology of legal & political institutions
• Legal entities, subjects and objects of law

We invite, however, submissions of abstracts covering all topics relevant for contemporary research in social ontology, including:

• Methods and problems of social ontology
• The ontology of social structures, social kinds and social facts
• The nature and existence of social phenomena
• The nature and existence of institutions
• Collective intentionality
• Collective or shared beliefs, intentions, and emotions
• Shared, joint or collective action
• Shared, collective, and corporate responsibility
• Social foundations of language and linguistic phenomena
• Linguistic or mental representations of social phenomena
• Social skills, habits and practices
• The nature, evolution, and functioning of social norms
• The ontology of money and economics 
• Critical social ontology
• Ontology and injustice and oppression