Friday September 21

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Conference Program ENPOSS 2012

Friday September 21

8:30 – 9:00 Coffee, Tea etc.

9:00 – 10:15 Stephen Turner (keynote) “What Can We say about the Future of Social Science?”

Room: Multisalen Chair: Julie Zahle

10:15 – 10:35 Coffee break

Session I: Collective Agency and Responsibility

Room: 27.0.09 Chair: Byron Kaldis

10:35 – 11:20 Marcus Hedahl “The Collective Fallacy”

11:20 – 12:05 Andras Szigeti “Why Change the Subject? Collective Ir-/Rationality without Collective

Agency”

Session II: Kinds and Concepts in Social Science

Room: Multisalen Chair: Finn Collin

10:35 – 11:20 Rico Hauswald “Natural Social Kinds and the Scientificity of the Social Sciences”

11:20 – 12:05 José A. Noguera “The Definition of Concepts in Social Science as Reflective Equilibrium”

12:05 – 13:05 Lunch break

13:05 – 14:20 Philip Pettit (keynote) “Three Doctrines in Social Ontology”

Room: Multisalen

14:20 – 14:40 Coffee Break

Chair: Julie Zahle

Session I: Group Knowledge and Responsibility

Room 27.0.09 Chair: Alban Bouvier

14:40 – 15:25 Seumas Miller “Collective Moral Responsibility for Epistemic Action”

15:25 – 16:10 Boaz Miller “Group Knowledge and the Wisdom of Crowds”

Session II: Incommensurablity

Room: Multisalen Chair: Jesús Zamora Bonilla

14:40 – 15:25 Kristina Rolin “Incommensurability in the social sciences: Why is it a problem?”

15:25 – 16:10 Bruce Chapman “Pluralism, Proportionality, and Process”

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Saturday September 22

8:30 – 9:00 Coffer, tea, etc.

9.00 – 10:15 Peter Hedström (keynote) “Macro Dynamics: A Simulation Perspective"

Room: 22.0.11 Chair: Finn Collin

10:15 – 10:35 Coffee break

Session I: Individualism versus Holism

Room: 22.0.11 Chair: Julie Zahle

10:35 – 11:20 Jo-Jo Koo “Site Social Ontology, Methodological Localism, and Social Causation”

11:20 – 12:05 Gert Albert “Beyond Atomism and Collectivism. On an Unnoticed Tradition of a Classical

Methodological Praxis”

Session II: Problems in the Construction of Social Reality

Room: 27.0.09 Chair: Thomas Uebel

10:35 – 11:20 Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi “The Mystification of Social Reality”

11:20 – 12:05 Enrico Terrone “How to Do Things with Uses – Social Reality and the Skeptical Paradox”

12:05 – 13:05 Lunch Break

Session I: Agent-Based Simulation

Room: 22.0.11 Chair: Paul Roth

13:05 – 13:50 Caterina Marchionni and Petri Ylikoski “Agent-Based Simulation, Bottom-Up Explanation and

Methodological Individualism”

13:50 – 14:35 Armando Geller and Martin Neumann “Cognition, Multiagent Modeling and the Weberian

Legacy of ‘Sinnverstehen”

Session II: Experiments in Social Science

Room: 27.0.09 Chair: Stephen Turner

13:05 – 13:50 David Teira and María Jiménez-Buedo “Blinding and the Non-Interference Assumption in

Field Experiments”

13:50 – 14:35 Mary Morgan “Inference from the Social Field: Natural Experiment or Case Study?”

14:35 – 14:55 Coffee Break

Session I: Models and Mechanisms

Room: 22.0.11 Chair: Alban Bouvier

14:55 – 15:40 Corinna Elsenbroich and Harko Verhagen “Going Beyond Atomism: Intentionality, Sociality and (the Modelling of) Normative Behaviour”

15:40 – 16:25 Tuukka Kaidesoja “Mechanism based explanations and collective agents”

Session II: Modelling and Economics

Room: 27.0.09 Chair: Jesús Zamora Bonilla

14:55 – 15:40 Harro Maas “Scale Problems in Experimental Economics”

15:40 – 16:25 Peter Spiegler “A Pragmatic, Quasi-Objective Account of Representation”

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Sunday September 23

8:30 – 9:00 Coffee, Tea, etc.

9:00 – 10:15 Björn Wittrock (keynote) “Social Sciences in Their Contexts, Reconstructions and

Room: 22.0.11

Continuities”

Chair: Finn Collin

10:15 – 10:35 Coffee break

Session I Team Reasoning and Preferences

Room: 22.0.11 Chair: Paul Roth

10:35 – 11:20 Natalie Gold “Group Goals, Game Theoretic Reasoning and Spontaneous Collective

Intentions”

11:20 – 12:05 Francesco Guala “Is Group Identity Group-Efficient? An Empirical Test of Team Preference and Collective Intentionality Theories”

Session II The Epistemology and Politics of Social Knowledge

Room: 27.0.09 Chair: Thomas Uebel

10:35 – 11:20 Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen “Functional Explanations Revisited”

11:20 – 12:05 Loren King, Brandon Morgan-Olsen and James Wong “Identifying Difference, Engaging

Dissent: What is at Stake in Democratizing Knowledge?”

12:05 – 13:05 Lunch break

Session Collective Minds and Morality

Room: 22.0.11 Chair: Byron Kaldis

13:05 – 13:50 Mattia Gallotti “The Content of Collective Intentionality”

13:50 – 14:35 Thomas Szanto “Collective Self-Deception”

14:35 – 15:20 Hans Bernhard Schmid “Obedience to Authority Revisited: 50 Years After Milgram's

Experiments”

15:20 – 15:35 Coffee break

15:35 – 16:20 ENPOSS meeting where everybody is welcome

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