Social Ontology 2025 at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Social Ontology 2025

The International Social Ontology Society annual conference

Conference will be held in person in Dublin, Ireland from August 5-8^th, 2025

First Announcement & Call for Abstracts

The call for abstracts is now open for Social Ontology 2025, an interdisciplinary conference on social ontology. The conference will be held in person at Trinity College Dublin.

Abstracts of 300-500 words (prepared for anonymous review) should be submitted. Abstracts will be submitted through EasyChair and a link will be posted here soon.

Extended deadline for submissions: January 10^th, 2024

Notification of acceptance: February 1^st, 2025

For Junior Scholars:

Essay Prize:

Junior scholars (in graduate school or received PhD within 5 years of the closing date) are eligible for the ISOS Philosophy Essay Prize for Young Scholars. The prize includes an invitation to present as a keynote at Social Ontology 2025, publication in the Journal of Social Ontology, and a €500 award.

For further details and guidelines, see the Essay Prize call for papers on this website.

Summer School: Social Ontology goes Interdisciplinary!

Junior scholars will also have the opportunity when submitting to signal an interest/desire to participate in a day-long summer school session before the conference (August 4^th). 

The conference

Topics include, but are not limited to:

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

Interdisciplinary contributions are encouraged! (The conference is even hosted in the business school!)

Keynotes by:

• Bill Wringe, Bilkent University
• Elisabeth Barnes, University of Virginia
• David Wiens, UC San Diego
• Joakim Sandberg, University of Gothenberg
• Esa Díaz-León, Universitat de Barcelona

This conference is supported by the European Research Council, Trinity College Dublin, the International Social Ontology Society, and Fáilte Ireland.