Conference Schedule


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Tuesday, July 8th

12:30 – 13:30 Opening Address and Keynote: John R. Searle
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Session A
IIS Room
Session B
John Harris Room
Session C
Howison Library
13:40 – 14:20 The Social Brain (abstract) Hudin Institutions,Information and Communication Technology (abstract)Miller, S. Do Artworks Look at You? Kobow
14:30 – 15:10 Collective Intentionality, Methodological Solipsism, and Current Neurosciences (abstract) Vicari Re-Expressing Normative Pragmatism in the Medium of Computation (abstract)Evans Andreas Gursky, Google Earth, and the Achievement of the World Picture (abstract) Moisey
15:20 – 16:00 Why Nature and Development go together in Naturalizing Collective Intentionality (abstract) Gallotti Autonomy and the Net (abstract)Giovagnoli The Social Ontology of Musical Works (abstract) Blackwell
16:10 – 16:50 Deceptive Properties and Modeling Social Change (abstract) Epstein Jazz and Collective Intentionality Kronfeld
17:00 – 18:00 Invited Speaker: Margaret Gilbert, Commands and their Practical Import (abstract)
Howison Library
18:30 Reception at the Women's Faculty Club


Wednesday, July 9th

8:30- 9:30 Keynote: Frans De Waal, Individual and Group Level Cooperation in Other Primates
Howison Library
Session D
Howison Library
Session E
IIS Room
Session F
John Harris Room
9:40 –
10:20
Human Kinds as Conferred Kinds (abstract) Sveinsdottir Mutual Reinforcement and the Stability of Shared Intention (abstract) Alonso Social Knowledge, Citizenship and Non-Domination in the Age of Experts (abstract) Wierzchoslawski
10:30 – 11:10 Race as an Institutional Fact (abstract)Mathiesen Collective Reasoning and Commitment (abstract) Miller, Kaarlo Collective Intentionality and Oppressive Societies (abstract) Moltchanova
11:20 – 12:00 Value-guided and Problem-guided Collective Intentions (abstract) Menendez-Viso Reasoning About Collectives (abstract) Hindriks/Schweikard We-Intentionality at the Core of Human Perception (abstract) Henning
Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30 Invited Speaker: Georg Meggle, Meaning as a Social Fact
Howison Library
Session D
Howison Library
Session E
IIS Room
Session F
John Harris Room
14:40 – 15:20 Young Children’s Social Categories and the Development of Discrimination (abstract) Kalish Mapping the Study of Collective Intentionality (abstract) Hakli & Mäkelä The Role of the Background in the Creation, Maintenance and Collapse of Institutions (abstract) Schmitz
15:30 – 16:10 Language and Institution in Searle's  The Construction of Social Reality (abstract) Moural
Collective Intentionality and Methodological Individualism (abstract) Schmid Further Elaborations on Searle’s Concept of the Background of Collective Intentionality (abstract) Durt
16:20 – 17:00 Natural Things vs. Social Existences and Natural vs. Social Kinds (abstract) Psarros From the Mental to the Social; Collective Intentionality's Double Role (abstract) Kaldis Economics Modeling and the Background Passinksy


Thursday, July 10th

8:30 –  9:30 Keynote: Philip Pettit, Real Pattern and Group Agency (abstract)
Howison Library
Session C
Howison Library
Session E
IIS Room
Session F
John Harris Room
9:40 – 10:20 Shared Emotions (abstract) Salmela We Intentions as Intentions of Individuals (abstract) Lang Autonomy, the Democratic Attitude and Social Change (abstract) Swindler
10:30 – 11:10 Shared Feeling and Affective Contagion (abstract) Konzelmann Joining In (abstract) Smith The Social Ontology of Freedom (abstract) Hindriks
11.20 – 12:00 "Me" against "We," Collective Emotions and Individual Reactions to Ingroup Misdeeds (abstract) Piff & Martinez Collective Action and Proxy Agency (abstract) Ludwig How is Social Ontology Possible? (abstract) Hällström
Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30 Invited Speaker: Sally Haslanger, Race, Gender and Ideological Construction (abstract)
Howison Library
Session C
Howison Library
Session E
IIS Room
Session F
John Harris Room
14:40 – 15:20 The Status Function of Art (abstract) Vega Agent Causation and Collective Agency (abstract) Schulte-Ostermann Collective Ethnic Identities as Status Function (abstract) Saaristo & Kreander
15:30 – 16:10 Joint Action:
Intentionality, Experience, and Explanation (abstract)
Seemann Shared Intention, Joint Action and Joint Authorship (abstract) Tollefsen Public History as Collective Action (abstract) Lapointe
16:20 – 17:00 Collective Intentionality and the Kingdom of Ends (abstract) Sadler Defining Minimal Cooperation (abstract) Paternotte Governments and Social Change (abstract Gusejnova



Friday, July 11th

8:30 – 9:30  Keynote: Tony Lawson, Two Approaches to Social Ontology:
Competitors, Complements or Basically the Same Thing? (abstract)
Howison Library
Session E
Howison Library
Session F
IIS Room
Session F
John Harris Room
9:40 – 10:20 Hayek's Legal Knowledge (abstract) Wedman The Ontology of Corporations (abstract) Derstine Apes, Babies, and Collective Intentionality (abstract) Fusco
10:30 – 11:10 Living Together in a Legal Practice (abstract) Bernal Who or What is the Company Man? (abstract) Roth Hoofed Mammals & Elephants Consciousness, Ontology and Collective Intentionality (abstract) Kiley-Worthington
11:20 – 12:00 Legislative Intentionalism by Proxy (abstract) MacPherson Where the Distribution Problem Ends and "Real" Collective Responsibility Begins (abstract) Chant Reciprocal Normativity, Deontic Power and Shared Valuing (abstract) Gloor
Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30 Invited speaker:  Raimo Tuomela, Group Thinking (abstract)
Howison Library
Session E
Howison Library
Session F
IIS Room
Session F
John Harris Room
14:40 – 15:20 On the Identity of Technological Objects and User Innovation in Function (abstract) Faulkner & Runde Violence as an Intentional Act (abstract)Salice Rules, Collective Intentionality, Identity and Social Ontology (abstract) Martins
15:30 – 16:10 Power, Collective Acceptance and Recognition (abstract) Stahl A Specification of Searle's Theory of Institutions in the Realm of Politics  Gran Collective Intentions as Effects of Influence (abstract) Anton
19:00 Reception (7 pm) and Dinner (8 pm) at the Bancroft Hotel


Revised: July 6, 2008