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La lezione di G.H. Mead, a 150 anni dalla sua nascita.
Giornata di studi patrocinata dalla S.D.I.S.U. (Scuola Dottorale Internazionale in Studi Umanistici, Università della Calabria) e dall'Associazione Culturale Pragma, in collaborazione con il GRiOS.
Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), 06, Maggio, 2013
Social Ontology: Metaphysical and Empirical Perspectives
Workshop of the European Network on Social Ontology (ENSO)
Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy September 21-23, 2011
Scope and Mission
Understanding the structure of social facts, social beliefs and social practices is one of the key topics of current research in a number of disciplines such as philosophy, cognitive science, economics, sociology, psychology, legal theory, history and political science. The European Network on Social Ontology (ENSO) aims to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discussion and exchange among scholars working in the field, as well as to initiate and to coordinate future research activities at the European level. Following the inaugural meeting of the network, held at the University of Constance (Germany) in October 2009, the ENSO now plans its second workshop at the Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome (Italy). All parties interested in joining the network are invited to participate.
Confirmed speakers
Cristiano Castelfranchi (Rome, Italy)
Maurizio Ferraris (Turin, Italy)
Francesco Guala (Milan, Italy)
Byron Kaldis (Athens, Greece)
Elisabeth Pacherie (Paris, France)
Hannes Rakoczy (Göttingen, Germany)
Hans Bernhard Schmid (Basel, Switzerland)
Raimo Tuomela (Helsinki, Finland / Munich, Germany)
Call for Papers
Social facts influence our decisions and have pervasive effects on our daily lives. At the same time, they seem to be constituted by the beliefs and practices of a community. Understanding the hybrid nature of this type of entities is a prominent task of social ontology. Nowadays different metaphysical approaches aim to describe the ontological profile of social facts and to determine their categorial framework. On the one hand, these approaches often proceed without taking into account the empirical evidence offered by cognitive and social sciences, even if such evidence might help to constrain theoretical debates and to refine the conceptual frameworks. On the other hand, such metaphysical accounts – by critically assessing the implicit assumptions and the ontological commitments of social sciences – are able to inspire new directions of empirical
investigation. Can metaphysical inquiries on the nature of social facts inform current empirical practice in the cognitive and social sciences? How might empirical evidence influence the debate between alternative metaphysical pictures?
In order to foster such interdisciplinary dialogue, the principal aim of the workshop is to bring together scholars from different theoretical and empirical disciplines addressing the following topics (the list is not exhaustive):
- Analyses of social practices from different philosophical (e.g. phenomenological or analytic) perspectives as well as from psychological or sociological approaches;
- Metaphysical conceptions of social facts from different theoretical traditions;
- The relations between social beliefs and social facts;
- The relations between social practices and social facts;
- Conventions and institutions;
- Analyses of joint attention, action, belief and intention;
- Types of social facts and social objects.
Abstracts should contain no more than 500 words. Please prepare your
submission for blind review by indicating your name and affiliation on
a separate sheet and send your proposal to the following address:
Important Dates
Deadline for abstract submission: June 6, 2011.
Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2011.
Organizing Committee
Alessandro Salice -- alessandro.salice@unibas.ch
Luca Tummolini -- luca.tummolini@istc.cnr.it
MAKING THE SOCIAL WORLD (Milan June 7-9, 2011)
The Research Unit “Person, social cognition and normativity” (Prin 2008) and the Centre of Research in Phenomenology and Sciences of the Person at San Raffaele University (www.phenomenologylab.eu), Milan, organize an International Conference and a Spring School on MAKING THE SOCIAL WORLD (June 7-9, 2011)
“What is the mode of existence of nations-states, money, corporations, ski clubs, summer vacations, coktail parties, and football games, to mention just a few? I attempt to explain the exact role of language in the creation, constitution, and maintenance of social reality. (…) One way to highlight the puzzling character of social ontology is to point out an apparent paradox in our understanding of social reality. We make statements about social facts that are completely objective—for example, Barack Obama is president of the United States, the piece of paper in my hand is a twenty-dollar bill, and so on. And yet, though these are objective statements, the facts corresponding to them are all created by human subjective attitudes. An initial form of the paradox is to ask, How is it possible that we can have factual objective knowledge of a reality that is created by subjective opinions? One of the reasons I find that question so fascinating is that it is part of a much larger question: How can we give an account of ourselves, with our peculiar human traits—as mindful, rational, speech-act performing, fre-will having, social, political human beings—in a world that we know independently consists of mindless, meaningless, physical particles?” (Searle 2010: ix-x). In addressing these issues, Searle puts forward a very rich conceptual apparatus in which notions such as “status functions”, “collective intentionality”, “deontic powers”, “desire independent reasons for action”, “constitutive rules”, “institutional facts” play a crucial role. Discussing such notions (and their contributions to currently debated issues) is the purpose of our Spring School, whose participants – beside the invited speakers – will be selected on the basis of their proposed abstracts.
Invited speakers: John R. SEARLE (University of California, Berkeley), Amedeo Giovanni CONTE (University of Pavia), Paolo DI LUCIA (University of Milan), Cristina MEINI (University of Piemonte), Maurizio FERRARIS (University of Turin), Andrea MORO (Iuss, Pavia), Hans-Bernard SCHMID (University of Basel).
Main sessions:
i) Social ontology
ii) Collective Intentionality, Social Cognition
iii) Normativity, Language
CALL FOR PAPERS
About 18 scholars (PhD candidates and young researchers) will be selected (by a double blind review) to present their paper on some topics of John R. Searle’s Making the Social World (Oxford University Press 2010) in one of the following scheduled sections:
i) Social ontology
ii) Collective Intentionality, Social Cognition
iii) Normativity, Language
Contributed papers will be scheduled for a 25-minute presentation (including discussion).
GUIDELINES FOR THE SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Abstracts must be written in English and be prepared for blind refereeing, with any and all revealing references to the author removed, including personal acknowledgments . Abstracts should indicate the title of the paper and the session for which it is submitted.
Please submit both a short abstract of no more than 1.000 characters (spaces included), and a long abstract of no more than 5.000 characters (references included).
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION is March 20th 2011
Notification of acceptance is expected by May 2nd 2011.
Abstracts should be sent to: socialworld@unisr.it
The school will take place at the UNIVERSITY VITA-SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE, Via Olgettina, 58 - Milan, Underground Line 2, Cascina Gobba station. All practical information will be soon available on the web site www.phenomenologylab.eu
Scientific Committe of the Spring School: Roberta De Monticelli (San Raffaele University), Francesca De Vecchi (San Raffaele University), Elisabetta Sacchi (San Raffaele University), Michele Di Francesco (San Raffaele University), Claudia Bianchi (San Raffaele University), Francesco Guala (University of Milan), Clotilde Calabi (University of Milan), Andrea Sereni (San Raffaele University), Corrado Sinigaglia (University of Milan), Giuseppe Lorini (University of Cagliari), Roberta Sala (San Raffaele University), Lorenzo Passerini Glazel (University of Milan-Bicocca), Stefano Colloca (University of Pavia), Vincenzo Costa (University of Molise), .
Scientific Committe of the International Conference: Roberta De Monticelli (San Raffaele University), Francesca De Vecchi (San Raffaele University), Michele Di Francesco (San Raffaele University), Elisabetta Sacchi (San Raffaele University), Claudia Bianchi (San Raffaele University), Andrea Sereni (San Raffaele University).
Organizing Committe: Roberta De Monticelli (San Raffaele University), Francesca De Vecchi (San Raffaele University), Elisabetta Sacchi (San Raffaele University), Stefano Cardini (Phenomenology Lab), Emilia Barile (San Raffaele University), Francesca Boccuni (San Raffaele University, University of Padua), Andrea Sereni (San Raffaele, University). Info: socialworld@unisr.it
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