6th Annual Critical Social Ontology Workshop

The Critical Social Ontology Workshop is an interdisciplinary venue for radical thinking about the metaphysics of irreducibly social phenomena. Core members of CSOW are Ruth Groff (Coordinator), Sally Haslanger, Tony Lawson, Doug Porpora, Vanessa Wills and Charlotte Witt.

We didn’t meet in 2025, but invite paper proposals for the almost-annual 2026 meeting of the Workshop, to be held via Zoom due to the on-going SARS-CoV-2 (Covid) pandemic as well as for environmental and accessibility considerations. As always, we welcome contributions the aim of which is to address fundamental issues of social ontology (and/or foundational meta-theoretical issues that have implications for social ontology) in ways that shed light upon and/or offer alternatives to existing positivist; Humean; post-modern; or other orthodoxies in philosophy and social science.

Call for Papers - see attached file for full details

Deadline for proposals: Sunday, April 6th, 2026.