ISOSC is the internationally leading philosophical and philosophy-related interdisciplinary conference series on social and collective phenomena held under the auspices of the International Social Ontology Society (ISOS). Previous conferences in this series have been held at the Universities of Basel, Helsinki, Konstanz, Leipzig, Lund, Manchester, München, Neuchâtel, Palermo, Rome, Rotterdam, Siena, Stockholm, and Tampere, as well as the University of California San Diego and Berkeley, Delft University of Technology, Tufts University, Indiana University, Bloomington, and the University of Vienna.

Submission Guidelines

Submit an abstract only, 300-500 words, prepared for anonymous review, by January 1, 2024. 

The presentation at the conference should be 20 minutes maximum.

List of Topics

Possible 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 or gender or class)
• Social structures and opaque kinds of social facts
• Shared, joint or collective action
• Shared, collective, and 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 functioning of social norms
• The structure of institutions, firms, and organizations
• The ontology of economics including unintended effects
• The method(s) of social ontology 
• Approaches to the metaphysics of the social world
• Critical social ontology 

Interdisciplinary contributions are strongly encouraged. 

Committees

Program Committee

Elanor Taylor, chair

Organizing committee

 Kevin Richardson and Ásta

Invited Speakers

• Johan Brännmark

• Brian Epstein

• Sally Haslanger

• Katherine Ritchie

• Michael Tomasello

• Book session on Åsa Burman's Nonideal Social Ontology

   

Venue

Dates: July 22-25, 2024

Place: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Kevin Richardson or Ásta.