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Journal of Social Ontology

ISSN: 2196-9663

Editor-in-chief: Hans Bernhard Schmid

Edited by: Frank Hindriks, Heikki Ikäheimo, Katharine Jenkins, Arto Laitinen, Alessandro Salice, Katherine Ritchie, David Schweikard, Gerhard Thonhauser

Managing Editor: Niels de Haan

About this journal

Objective

The Journal of Social Ontology (JSO) is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to social ontology and collective intentionality. JSO features scholarly work pertaining to the basic structures of the social world from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including moral, social and political philosophy, anthropology, cognitive science, economics, history, law, political science, and psychology. The topics that JSO covers range from small-scale everyday interactions to encompassing societal institutions, from expert teams to hierarchical organizations, and from unintended consequences to institutional design. The journal provides a forum for exchanges between scholars of diverse disciplinary and methodological backgrounds. In addition to major articles, JSO publishes review essays, discussion articles, and book reviews.

Topics

Social ontology and collective intentionality
Basic structures of the social world
Interdisciplinary perspective including moral, social and political philosophy, sociology, anthropology, cognitive science, human sciences, economics, history, law, political science, and psychology

Journal of Social Ontology Peer Review Policy

The Journal of Social Ontology practices double-blind peer review. This means that the identity of the author will remain unknown to the referees and the referees will remain anonymous to the author. All submissions receive an initial editorial review (i.e. desk review). Submissions that are rejected at this stage will not be accompanied by a report. Submissions that are not rejected at this stage will be send to at least two independent referees that are experts in the relevant subfield(s) selected by the Editors.
The Journal of Social Ontology is committed to maintaining the highest standards of scholarly rigor and requires two (2) positive reviews by independent reviewers as well as the Editorial Board’s approval for any decision to publish. Reviewers must be in no relevant relationship to the author, i.e. they cannot be affiliated with the same institutions or function(ed) as a supervisor. It is sometimes not possible to provide two reports for all manuscripts and the editorial staff will occasionally provide a decision with one report—though generally all submissions not rejected in the initial review will be returned along with two (2) reports.
The Journal of Social Ontology does not accept simultaneous submissions—discovery that a manuscript is under consideration for publication at another journal will result in immediate rejection of the manuscript.

History

History

Journal of Social Ontology was founded 2015. It is supported by International Social Ontology Society.

Other publications in the field

SATS. Northern European Journal of Philosophy
Moral Philosophy and Politics
Kairos. Journal of Philosophy and Science
Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie

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Volume 7 Issue 2

August 2021

Publicly Available January 5, 2022

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Articles

Open Access August 30, 2021

Unplanned Coordination: Ensemble Improvisation as Collective Action

Ali Hasan, Jennifer Kayle

Page range: 143-172

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Abstract

The characteristic features of ensemble dance improvisation (EDI) make it an interesting case for theories of intentional collective action. These features include the high degree of freedom enjoyed by each individual, and the lack of fixed hierarchical roles, rigid decision procedures, or detailed plans. We present a “reductive” approach to collective action, apply it to EDI, and show how the theory enriches our perspective on this practice. We show, with the help of our theory of collective action, that EDI (as typically practiced) constitutes a significant collective achievement, one that manifests an impressive, spontaneous, jointly cooperative and individually highly autonomous activity that meets demanding aesthetic standards. Its being good in this way is not a mere extrinsic feature of the artwork, but part of its aesthetic value. We end by discussing how this value is easily missed by classic aesthetics, but is revealed by more contemporary frameworks like social aesthetics.

Open Access October 29, 2021

How to Project a Socially Constructed Sexual Orientation

Peter Finocchiaro

Page range: 173-203

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Was bisexuality a widespread feature of ancient Greek society? This question is an instance of cross-cultural projection -- of taking the means through which people are categorized in one culture and applying it to members of another. It’s widely held by those who think that sexual orientation is socially constructed that its projection poses a problem. In this paper, I offer a more careful analysis of this alleged problem. To analyze projection, I adapt Iris Einheuser’s substratum-carving model of conventionalism to fit the specific needs of social construction (and social metaphysics more broadly). Using this model, I show that projection is conceptually coherent, and so does not for that reason pose any problem. Along the way, I identify some of the epistemic difficulties facing projection. While these difficulties are formidable, they are not substantially affected by the constructivist claim. I therefore conclude that there is no unique problem facing the projection of a socially constructed sexual orientation.

Open Access November 2, 2021

The Social Construction of Perceptual Categories

Francesco Consiglio

Page range: 205-232

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In this article I shall argue that the categories a subject employs to codify her perceptions are emergent elements of the social niche her community inhabits. Hence, I defend the claim that categories are primarily elements of the social ontology a certain subject experiences. I then claim that public representations (e.g. icons) shared in a social niche play a crucial regulative role for the members of that community: in fact, they offer a rule (a canon) to conceive a certain type or a certain category, e.g. ‘movement’, ‘time’ or ‘space’. In this sense, categories function as normative elements.

Open Access December 20, 2021

Patriarchy as Institutional

Johan Brännmark

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In considering patriarchy as potentially institutional and as a characteristic also of contemporary Western societies, a fundamental issue concerns how to make sense of largely informal institutions to begin with. Traditional accounts of institutions have often focused on formalized ones. It is argued here, however, that the principal idea behind one commonly accepted conception of institutions can be developed in a way that better facilitates an explication of informal institutions. When applied to the phenomenon of patriarchy, such an approach can then also allow us to ontologically make sense of gray areas and hierarchies of authority, as well as the intersectionality of social positions.

Volume 7 (2021)

Volume 6 (2020)

Volume 5 (2019)

Volume 4 (2018)

Volume 3 (2017)

Volume 2 (2016)

Volume 1 (2015)

Cite Score	1.3
SCImago Journal Rank	0.540
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	2.125

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Editorial

Editor-in-Chief
Hans Bernhard Schmid (University of Vienna)

Editorial Assistant
Niels de Haan (University of Vienna)

Editorial Office
Universität Wien
Institut für Philosophie
Universitätsstraße 7
1010 Wien
Austria

Review Editor
David P. Schweikard
david.schweikard@uni-flensburg.de

We kindly ask publishers to send books (to be reviewed) to:

Prof. Dr. David P. Schweikard
Europa-University Flensburg
Department of Philosophy
Auf dem Campus 1a
24943 Flensburg
Germany

Editors
Frank Hindriks (University of Groningen)
Heikki Ikäheimo (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
Katharine Jenkins (University of Glasgow)
Arto Laitinen (University of Tampere)
Katherine Ritchie (University of California, Irvine)
Alessandro Salice (University College Cork)
David Schweikard (University of Flensburg)
Gerhard Thonhauser (Technical University of Darmstadt) Former Editors:
Mari Mikkola (Oxford University)

Advisory Board
Lynne Baker (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Monika Betzler (University of Bern)
Luc Bovens (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh)
Michael Bratman (Stanford University)
Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley)
David Copp (University of California, Davis)
Vincent Descombes (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Margaret Gilbert (University of California, Irvine)
Natalie Gold (Kings College, London)
Sally Haslanger (Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge)
Axel Honneth (University of Frankfurt)
Martin Kusch (University of Vienna)
Eerik Lagerspetz (University of Turku)
Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge)
Uskali Mäki (University of Helsinki)
Larry May (Vanderbilt University, Nashville)
Seumas Miller (Charles Sturt University and Delft University of Technology)
Élisabeth Pacherie (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Philip Pettit (Princeton University)
Michael Quante (University of Münster)
Carol Rovane (Columbia University, New York)
Barry Smith (University of Buffalo)
Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia)
Deborah P. Tollefsen (Memphis State University)
Michael Tomasello (Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig)
Raimo Tuomela (University of Helsinki)

(Deutsch)

Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: December 20, 2014
Publication Frequency: 2 Issues per Year
Audience: Scholars and students from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including moral, social and political philosophy, sociology, anthropology, cognitive science, human sciences, economics, history, law, political science, and psychology
Keywords: Social Ontology; Collective Intentionality; Social and Institutional Facts; Cooperation; Social Cognition, Norms and Conventions