Social Ontology Faces the Future: May 31 & June 1

This international workshop will occur at Demir Demirgil Hall at the beautiful and historic campus of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul on Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1. We’ll have twelve speakers in the main program plus a keynote address by Rach Cosker-Rowland. There will also be pre-workshop events on Wednesday May 29 and Thursday May 30. Please consider joining us for some or all of the talks, and feel free to share this announcement with anyone who might be interested.

Support for this workshop is generously provided by the International Social Ontology Society, the Department of Philosophy at Boğaziçi University, and the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Koç University. The organizers of the workshop are Seçil Aracı (Boğaziçi), Zeynep Çelik (Bilkent), David Killoren (Koç), and Bill Wringe (Bilkent).

The website is here; the program is here; the abstracts are here.

If you have any questions, here’s our contact email: socialontologyfacesthefuture@gmail.com

Schedule

Day 1: Friday May 31

Chair: Sena Çi̇ftci̇
10:30-11:15 Danny Weltman (Ashoka), “Gender Proliferation is Gender Elimination”
11:15-noon Valeria Martino (Turin), “The Metaphysics of Future Generations”

Noon-1:30 Lunch

Chair: Evrensel Sebep
1:30-2:15 Jonathan Kwan (NYU Abu Dhabi), “Ecological Sustainability: A People’s Self-Regarding Duty as an Intergenerational Group”
2:15-3 Erim Bakkal (Bilkent), “Fictionalism in Social Ontology”

3-3:30 Coffee break

Chair: Damla Belemi̇r Aydin
3:30-4:15 Gillian Gray (Michigan), “Ambivalence and Authenticity”

4:15-4:30 Coffee break

Chair: Bengü Demi̇rtaş
4:30-5:30 Keynote: Rach Cosker-Rowland (Leeds), “Moral Encroachment on Gender and Social Metaphysics”

Dinner: Free-roaming

Day 2: Saturday June 1

Chair: Zeynep Çeli̇k
10:30-11:15 Zach Gudmunsen (Koç), “How Artificial Agents can Improve Group Decision-Making”
11:15-noon Laszlo Koszeghy (CEU), “From Collective Recognition to Modulating Algorithms: Towards a Social Ontology in the Digital Age”

Noon-1:30 Lunch

Chair: Ahmet Gönüllü
1:30-2:15 Sean Aas (Georgetown), “Present Rights, Future Practices?”
2:15-3 Berkay Ozar (Bilkent), ”Beyond Anthropocentrism: A Heterogeneous Approach to Social Ontology”

3:00-3:15 Coffee break 

Chair: Uğur Yildirim
3:15-4:00 Franz Altner (ETH Zurich) & Olof Leffler (Siena), “Bratman’s Subject” 
4:00-4:45 Çagla Çimendereli (Syracuse), “The Concept of Nonnative Speaker”  

4:45-5:00 Coffee break  

Chair: Seçil Aracı
5:00-5:45 Costanza Penna (Turin), “How Groups Persist Through Generations” 

Workshop dinner: Bi Nevi Deli, appx. 7pm. Dinner for all speakers and organizers will be provided.

Pre-workshop events

Prior to the official start of the workshop on Friday morning, there will be a few events that workshop participants might consider attending.

Wednesday May 29th 4pm (online) 

Dilara Diegelmann: “Ecofeminism’s Relevance Today” 

This talk will be in English but is designed for an audience of Turkish philosophers and students. Click here for an abstract and the Zoom link.

Thursday May 30th 3:30pm-7 (in person)

Location and full details TBA

-A panel on translating Brian Epstein’s ‘The Ant Trap’ into Turkish (Erim Bakkal and others)   

-A talk by Barry Stocker (Boğaziçi)