Social Ontology 2021 

In August 2021, UC San Diego will host Social Ontology 2021, which we be held exclusively online, from August 9 to August 21, 2021. 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.

Keynote speakers are:

• Michael Hardimon, UC San Diego
• Tamara Metz, Reed College
• Paul Roth, UC Santa Cruz
• Carolina Sartorio, University of Arizona
• Leif Wenar, Stanford University

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Approaches to the metaphysics of the social world
• Collective intentions, group agency, & group action
• Collective & distributed responsibility
• The nature of institutions, firms, & corporations
• Metaphysics of race & gender
• Metaphysics of money & markets
• Nature of law & legal applications of social ontology
• Ontological aspects of critical social theory

We are accepting abstracts only of 300-500 words (prepared for blind review). 

Interdisciplinary contributions are strongly encouraged.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED: March 25th, 2021

Notification of acceptance: May 11th, 2021

More information on the conference can be found at: https://isosonline.org/so2021/

The Social Ontology / Collective Intentionality conferences are a biennial series sponsored by the European Network for Social Ontology and the International Social Ontology Society. The previous events in this series have been held at University of Neuchâtel (2020), Tufts University (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).