CFP - The Philosophy of Networks

A Call for Papers on Social Networks and Philosophy:

At the 2010 International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference <http://insna.org/sunbelt/>, to take place at Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy, from June 29 to July 4, 2010, we would like to organise a session on the philosophy of social networks. This session might cover multidisciplinary issues surrounding the theorization of social networks, objects and relations, which is coming from diverse fields such as philosophy, ontology, epistemology, ethics, Actor-Network Theory, Science and Technology Studies, etc. This session will provide an opportunity for scholars in both social networks and philosophy to increase their understanding of network processes through an exchange of ideas and knowledge with others sharing similar interests in social sciences, humanities, mathematics and computer science. In particular, those working on ontology, semantics, Object-Oriented Philosophy and Speculative Realism, either from an analytical or continental philosophical perspective, a cognitive or cultural approach, a metaphysical or political point of view etc., might be interested in participating in this session.

Potential contributors are kindly invited to contact us before the end of November 2009, because the deadline for submission of abstracts of contributed papers at the conference is December 1, 2009. However, we need to hear from you before then so that we might be able to organize a successful session on philosophy and social networks research.

Please contact:

Moses Boudourides, University of Patras, Greece, at <Moses.Boudourides[at]gmail[dot]com>

and/or

Nick Srnicek, London School of Economics, UK, at <nsrnicek[at]gmail[dot]com