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About
Social Ontology 2024 will be held July 22-25, 2024 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The conference gathers philosophers, social theorists, psychologists, economists, political scientists, and other scholars interested in the field of social ontology. Social ontology, broadly understood, is the field of philosophy that investigates the nature of the social world and how it works. Format Social Ontology 2024 is a multi-day conference featuring up to two hundred participants. There will be parallel sessions of 30 minutes each. Speakers will present for 20 minutes, with 10 minutes question and answer sessions. Speakers were selected by an abstract submission process. There are five keynote speakers and one book symposium. Lunch and a reception will be provided for registered participants. Attendee Information For more details, see the following pages. Program Travel and Lodging Instructions for Attendees Instructions for Chairs and Presenters Hosts and Sponsors Social Ontology is sponsored by the International Social Ontology Society (ISOS) and hosted by the Duke University Philosophy Department. History Social Ontology 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, Munich, Manchester, 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. |
Keynote Speakers
Johan Brännmark (Stockholm University) Brian Epstein (Tufts University) Sally Haslanger (MIT) Michael Tomasello (Duke University) Book Symposium Åsa Burman (Stockholm University), Nonideal Social Ontology Organizing Committee
Kevin Richardson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. They work on social ontology and metaphysics
Ásta works mainly in metaphysics, feminist philosophy, and social philosophy. She is Professor of Philosophy at Duke.
Program Chair
Elanor Taylor is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. She works on metaphysics of science and social metaphysics.
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