Final program and reminder to register by Monday April 30th (apologies
for x-posting)

Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality Workshop
Macquarie University, Thursday & Friday, May 3-4, 2012
http://www.johnsutton.net/Social_Ontology_Macquarie_2012.html

Venue: Robert Menzies College, Macquarie University: 136 Herring Road,
North Ryde NSW 2113. http://rmc.org.au/, on the edge of campus next to
the University Railway Station and the Macquarie Centre.

Registration is FREE but required by Monday 30th April for catering
purposes. Please send your registration details - name and affiliation
- to Kellie Williamson: [email protected] saying which day/s
you’ll attend.
The workshop is free to attend on both days, with thanks to our
sponsors, including morning and afternoon tea and coffee: but lunch is
not provided (available at the Macquarie Centre or on campus).

The workshop is sponsored by CAVE (the Centre for Agency, Values, and
Ethics, Macquarie University), the Department of Cognitive Science at
Macquarie University, and the School of Humanities, University of New
South Wales.

Here is a Macquarie Uni campus map:
http://www.mq.edu.au/pubstatic/custom/files/media/campus_map_jpeg.jpg.
On this map, Robert Menzies college is bottom right, map references
U23-V25, across the road from the station. Entry from Herring Road.
Here is the Sydney transport infoline for train and bus routes and
timetables: http://www.131500.com.au/

Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality – An Interdisciplinary Workshop
Macquarie University, Sydney, May 3-4, 2012

Social Ontology as ontological inquiry about collectives, practices,
laws, material culture and other aspects of reality dependent on
sociality, including humans themselves and their minds, is a rapidly
evolving international field of research. Collective intentionality is
one of the key concepts in social ontology in terms of which the basic
constitution of all things social is nowadays discussed. It is closely
related to themes like mutual belief, joint action, collective
responsibility, and shared emotion. Social ontology in philosophy also
draws on and contributes to research in many other disciplines,
including theoretical sociology, law, economics, cognitive science,
psychology, anthropology and political science. This workshop brings
together Australian and international researchers working in these
fields.

Program
Day 1. Thursday 3 May
9.15                Registration open
9.45-10.00       Welcome
10.00-11.15     Kirk Ludwig (Indiana), Collective intentions and
action: from individual to institutional agency
11.15-11.45                 coffee
11.45-12.30     Ian Lee (Toronto), The theorization of corporate
personality in corporate law and public law
12.30-1.15       Carlos Bernal-Pulido (Macquarie), The collective
intentional creation of legal authority: an analysis of three legal
positivistic theories
1.15-2.15                     lunch break
2.15-2.45         Mark Bennett (Victoria University, Wellington),
‘It’s a plan’: Does the idea of shared activities explain the
normativity of law?
2.45-3.15         James Ley (Sydney), Collective memory and ethical inquiry
3.15-3.45         Monte Pemberton (Queensland), Winch’s internal relations
3.45-4.15                     coffee
4.15-5.00         Kristi Giselsson (Tasmania), The social ontological
practice of communal accountability: ethics and human value
5.00-5.45         Nikolas Kompridis (Western Sydney), Ontology,
receptivity, normativity
Conference Dinner (venue tbc, all welcome, own expense)

Day 2. Friday 4 May
10.00-11.15     Seumas Miller (Charles Sturt), Joint epistemic action
11.15-11.45                 coffee
11.45-12.30     Arto Laitinen (Jyväskylä), Collective acceptance
without double direction of fit
12.30-1.15       Heikki Ikaheimo (UNSW), Ethical perfectionism in
social ontology - a recognition-theoretical view
1.15-2.15                     lunch break
2.15-2.45         Guido Seddone (Leipzig), Emergence of
we-intentionality: commitment or belonging?
2.45-3.15         Onni Hirvonen (Macquarie), Group ontologies and
recognition theories
3.15-3.45         Kellie Williamson (Macquarie), Towards a social
ontology of sports teams
3.45-4.15                     coffee
4.15-5.00         Sandra Field (Princeton), Hobbes and the social
ontology of power
5.00-5.45         John Sutton (Macquarie), How to share a memory
5.45-6.00         Catriona Mackenzie (Director of CAVE, Macquarie),
closing remarks

(Abstracts will be up online by Friday April 27th via
http://www.johnsutton.net/Social_Ontology_Macquarie_2012.html)

Enquiries to the organizers: Carlos Bernal-Pulido (Law, Macquarie,
[email protected]), Heikki Ikaheimo (Humanities, UNSW,
[email protected]), or John Sutton (Cognitive Science, Macquarie,
[email protected]).

-- 
Professor John Sutton
Department of Cognitive Science (http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/)
Macquarie University, Sydney,
NSW 2109, Australia
Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 4132
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.johnsutton.net/

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