THIRTEENTH ANNUAL

PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ROUNDTABLE
18-20 MARCH 2011

Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Institut Jean Nicod (ENS/EHESS/CNRS), Département de Philosophie (ENS), Département de Sciences Sociales (ENS)

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are organizing the thirteenth annual working conference on topics in philosophy of the social sciences. The 2011 Roundtable will continue a tradition of meetings that brings together philosophers and social scientists to discuss a wide range of philosophical issues raised in and by social research. This year the Roundtable will be hosted by Alban Bouvier in Paris.

Abstracts on any topic in philosophy of the social sciences or in the philosophy of social phenomena are welcome. We especially welcome papers that tackle philosophical issues as they arise in, and are consequential for, practicing social scientists.

We will assemble a two-day program of papers to be presented in workshop format so that intensive discussion can be the focus of the meeting.  We choose papers with the aim of ensuring a broad mix of topics and of presenters from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. We particularly welcome contributions from junior colleagues and colleagues new to the area. In this spirit, we have established an alternate year policy for regular participants; in general, we will give preference to new contributors over those who presented papers at the previous year’s Roundtable. Selected papers from the Roundtable will be published in an annual special issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences (see any March issue of Philosophy of the Social Sciences from 2000 onward for papers from prior Roundtables).

The Keynote Addresses for the 13th Annual Roundtable will be given by:
Dan Sperber, Central European University, Budapest & Institut Jean Nicod, Paris and Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo (Ontario)

Send a ONE-PAGE ABSTRACT to any member of the program committee (listed below) by

DECEMBER 15, 2010.

If you would like to be on a distribution list for email notices, send a note to this effect to James Bohman at the address below. Check the Roundtable website for news and updates:

http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/roundtable/

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Local Host: Alban Bouvier, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 29, Rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France, bouvier.alban@wanadoo.fr
• Paul Roth, Department of Philosophy UC – Santa Cruz  1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, paroth@ucsc.edu
• James Bohman, Department of Philosophy Saint Louis University, 3800 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63156-0907, bohmanjf@slu.edu
• Stephen Turner, Department of Philosophy FAO 226, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, turner@usf.edu
• Mark Risjord, Department of Philosophy Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, mrisjor@emory.edu
• Alison Wylie, Department of Philosophy University of Washington, Box 353350, Seattle, WA 98195, aw26@u.washington.edu