Collective Action & The Law

The conference plans to cover both topics specific to legal philosophy and broader issues connected to collective intentionality and normativity. The main topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Collective intentions and normativity

• How do norms of “social rationality” contribute to constitute a social group or a society?
• What is the normative status of these social norms? Do they have moral import?
• How do individual attitudes – beliefs, desires, and intentions – interplay with collective attitudes?

Collective intentions and judicial decision-making

• What is the role of collective intentionality in the application of the law? How does it affect the judicial function?
• How do we account for collegiate judicial decision-making?
• How should member’s of collegiate courts decide “together”?

The format of the conference is pre-read. Papers will be circulated in advance. Each session will start with a very short presentation by the author (approx. 30 minutes). A commentator will then kick-off discussion, the author will respond to the comments, and then the remainder of the session will be dedicated to Q&A. Applicants should submit an abstract of no more than 1000 words, where the main claim and arguments included in the paper are made clear.

Deadline for submissions: April 25th, 2016.

Decisions will be made by May 20th, 2016.

Drafts of the accepted papers must be delivered by August 15th.