CFP: Social Ontology
Submission deadline: March 2, 2020
Conference date(s):
July 13, 2020 - July 25, 2020
Conference Venue:
Department of Philosophy, University of Neuchatel
Neuchâtel,
Switzerland
Topic areas
Details
Social Ontology
The 12th Biennial Collective Intentionality Conference
July 13-16, 2020, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
In July 2020, University of Neuchâtel will host the biennial Collective Intentionality Conference. This major conference will bring together leading philosophers and other theorists across fields studying the nature and varieties of social phenomena, as well as their affective, cognitive and agential foundations.
Topics include, but are not limited to
Collective Intentionality and Social Cognition
Group Action
Shared Emotions
Psychopathological Disturbances of Social Behaviour
Approaches to the Metaphysics of the Social World
The Nature of Institutions, Firms, and Organizations
The Nature of Law and Legal Applications of Social Ontology
The Ontology of Economics
Collective and Distributed Responsibility
Keynote speakers
Malinda Carpenter, St. Andrews
Jonathan Schaffer, Rutgers
Amie Thomasson, Dartmouth College
Achille Varzi, New York
Dan Zahavi, Copenhagen/Oxford
Organising Committee:
Olivier Massin (Neuchâtel, Chair), Alessandro Salice (Cork, Chair), Antoine Taillard (Neuchâtel), Judith Würgler (Neuchâtel)
Submission
Abstracts of 300-500 words (prepared for blind review) should be submitted to the conference EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=so-collint-2020
Interdisciplinary contributions are strongly encouraged.
Deadline for submissions: February 20th, 2020
Notification of acceptance: May 5th, 2020
Fees:TBA
The Collective Intentionality Conferences are a biennial series sponsored by the International Social Ontology Society. The previous eleven events in this series have been held at Tufts University in Boston/MA, USA (2018), Delft University of Technology in Den Haag, Netherlands (2016), Indiana University Bloomington (2014), and the Universities of Manchester (2012), Basel (2010), Berkeley (2008), Helsinki (2006), Siena (2004), Rotterdam (2002), Leipzig (2000) and Munich (1999).
More information on the conference can be found at: https://isosonline.org/Social-Ontology-2020
Contact us: [email protected]