The Architecture of Encounter A video script to provide an overview of the chapter content from The Architecture of Encounter.

Read a high-level summary of the chapters in The Architecture of Encounter.

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🚀Out now! New book on #CulturalEvolution and #SocialOntology, edited by Martina Valković and @thomasreydon.bsky.social #PhilBio #PhilSci #PhilSky

Cultural Evolution and Social Ontology | Interdisciplinary Perspective This volume explores connections between two growing and complementary fields of research: cultural evolutionary theory and social ontology. It sheds light on

📖 Published today (ebook):

*Cultural Evolution and Social Ontology*

Edited by Martina Valković & @thomasreydon.bsky.social

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I recently finished reading Richard Wollheim's "Painting As An Art".

I found much of it stimulating in the close attention paid to particular pictures and thought provoking with regard to his theory of "seeing in" as the way to understand our perception of paintings […]

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A philosopher reads James. Brilliant.
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#Novel #Reading #AmericanLiterature #Classic #PhilosophicalFiction #Race #Identity #RacialPassing #Belief #Truth #SocialOntology #Appearance #Reality #Power #Perception #blog #podcast #Ideology #Practice #Literature #Philosophy

What Precedent Reveals About Group Agency: Evidence from Discursive Dilemmas on the U.S. Supreme Court <p><span>Do judgment-aggregation paradoxes prompt social scientists to posit irreducible “group agents”? We test this claim using the U.S. Supreme Court’s exper

What Precedent Reveals About Group Agency: Evidence from Discursive Dilemmas on the U.S. Supreme Court #philsky #philosophy #socialontology

7/10 Philosophy of sound can’t stop at theory. The public’s experience - the way bodies move, sync, and dissolve in rhythm - is where flux becomes real. The club is a lived epistemology. #AestheticExperience #SocialOntology

The Society for the Study of #Pregnancy and #Birth (SSPRB) has published its 2025 Virtual Symposium talk delivered by Dr. Beatrice Sasha Kobow of the University of Salzburg. #Natality #socialontology www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL88...

Can We Blame Rioters? Political riots raise important moral questions. When we see or hear about a riot, we are prompted to consider whether the cause is just and whether rioting is a justified means of protest. Some belie...

I was invited to write a blog post for the American Philosophical Association on a tricky question: Can we blame rioters who get swept up by the crowd? I argue yes, but show that standard theories struggle with this.

Read it below!

#philosophy #moralresponsibility #socialontology #APAblog

There's apparently a somewhat new branch in the #ontology business: #SocialOntology. Haven't been able to figure out yet what the difference is to social #constructivism, #conventionalism, and all that, but am prepared for some funny overlap.

Next week at the College: Seize the opportunity to join the international conference on 'Queer Analytic #Philosophy' on 16 June, in person or online:
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Registration is extended until 15 June.

#AnalyticPhilosophy #QueerPhilosophy #SocialConcepts #SocialOntology

🤖Let’s explore the puzzle of artificial agency and responsibility in the context of LLM-powered avatars through insights from #AIethics, #SocialOntology, and #PhilosophyOfLaw.

📅 May 22–23, 2025
📍 Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest

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Postdoctoral position in social philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Philosophy and History of Ideas, Dept. of, Aarhus University

There's only one week left to apply for the open postdoc position in my ERC project on the social ontology of social cohesion! Reach out if you have any questions about eligibility, the project, or the department (which is great!).

#PhilJobs #Philosophy #SocialOntology #SocialCohesion #ERC

Augusto Graziani, the Theory of the Monetary Circuit, Marx, and Social Ontology – Augusto Graziani

New intervention in the blog on #AugustoGraziani by John Smithin.

#Marx
#Keynes
#monetarycircuit
#Kreislauf
#socialontology

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