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Critical Social Ontology Workshop, 2026 - Program!

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Critical Social Ontology Workshop, 2026 Friends, Here’s the cfp for the 6th Almost-Annual meeting of the Critical Social Ontology Workshop. Please feel free to share widely! Apologies that Wordpress will no longer preserve the nice…

Hi all! Here's the cfp for the 2026 Critical Social Ontology Workshop! I hope to meet some of you!

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Congratulations!

Thank you so much! I’m cautiously optimistic that it will be a helpful book.

Rest of the ppl covered in my new book! 2/2

Ch. 5: Cartwright, Ellis, Mumford (& w/Anjum)
Ch. 6: Heil, Molnar, Vetter, McKitrick
Ch. 7: Chakravartty, Marmodoro, Ingthorsson

(There will also be an Appendix. I just couldn't do everyone.)

# A Critical Intro to Causal Powers & Dispositions

Here are the thinkers whose views abt causal powers you'll find in my new book. (Post is 1 of 2)

Ch. 2: Aristotle, Locke, Hume
Ch. 3: Kant, Mill; Armstrong, Bird, Woodward
Ch. 4: Reid, Wm. James, RW Sellars, Anscombe, Lamprecht (❤); then Harré & Madden, Roy Bhaskar

Thank you!!! I cannot wait until this book is totally out of my hands and into those (hopefully) of readers. Or at least cast upon the winds! # Albatross

: Hey guys! I finished my new book, *A Critical Introduction to Causal Powers and Dispositions*. Am now doing the final line-editing, and I think that it's kind of good! It took me long enough to write each chapter that I haven't looked back until now. It will be published by Bloomsbury.

Whoa.

It is totally possible to do an online conference. There are many reasons why the APA should switch to such a format.

So cool, Carrie!

Yes, her work is very interesting. She studies nonviolence.

I don’t think so. I’ll check it out!

We miss you over at the other place!

The talking Volkswagen. What was the movie? The Love Bug? Also, my grandmother took me to see Alice’s Restaurant.

My mom, who just wrote a wonderful memoir, called *Not If I Can Help It: A Family Lawyer's Fight for Victims of Domestic Violence and the Poor* (Rivertowns Books, 2025) is on Bluesky! @meggroffauthor.bsky.social

You were fantastic on this, Femi. Proud to know you.

I wish that philosophy of mind & phil of agency as sub-fields featured issues such as these more centrally.

… fundamentally made of surfaces & also a non-conformist might be because the root issues (as it were) aren’t actually the same. More common for superficial ppl to conform, if only by shape-shifting, but one can also retain control by refusing to comply.

I’ve been thinking that the one issue is about whether or not there is a there, there and the other issue is about defiance. There’s overlap, and both assume agential control in a way that Dissociative Identity Disorder doesn’t, but I think maybe the reason why one can be fundamentally <cont.>

Sorry - this was spozed to be 2 of 3.

Sorry - this was spozed to be 3 of 3.

Admittedly, it might hinge upon whether or not there's a coherent self or even ego-state that has merely cloaked itself in surfaces or if, instead, it's fiction - or as good as - all the way down.

Have I got it wrong?

But I think that the appearance is misleading, and my provisional answer is no. One can be a collage of artifice and also defy norms. It's just that we're more accustomed to the inverse combinations. 2/2

: Meanwhile, I was thinking - for distraction & by way of the omnipresent Dylan movie - abt whether or not one needs to have an authentic core to which to be true for it to be possible to "remain true to oneself" by refusing to conform. It may appear as though the question is tautological. 1/3

I didn’t love it as a film, either! And these people were like air to me from the time I was, like, 5 in the case of Pete. Probably the first singer I knew of.

Sux toadz.