ENSO IV - Book of Abstracts

The conference addresses questions about the formation, persistence, change and collapse of social-institutional reality; the nature of collective intentionality; the ontogenesis of the capacity for interaction; team reasoning and distributed cognition; collective decision-making; collective responsibility; political power and social change; the role of language in the construction of social and institutional reality; institutional and social normativity; group membership and group identity; the logical and normative structure of cooperation; the psychological and conceptual mechanisms underlying the emergence of social interaction and collective agency; the nature of duties and rights built into the logical structure of institutions. It, therefore, contributes to dialogue between analytic approaches, philosophical traditions such as phenomenology and critical theory, and empirical research in the social and cognitive sciences. The research products of the European Network on Social Ontology are published, beyond other books and journals, in the Journal of Social Ontology (JSO) published by De Gruyter. Previous ENSO Conferences took place in Köln (2009), Rome (2011), Helsinki (2013).