The latest CSO workshop was held in January 2014, in Magdalen College at the University of Oxford. The papers from the workshop will be published in 2015 as the third volume of the Social Morphogenesis series. These were the papers presented:

Monday 6th January

Philip Gorski – Causal Mechanisms: lessons from the Life Sciences

Colin Wight – Mechanisms, Metaphors and some examples from International Relations

Pierpaolo Donati – Social Mechanisms and their Feedbacks: Mechanical versus Relational Emergence of new Social Formations

Emmanuel Lazega – Dynamics of multilevel networks in social processes: hardwired social control, institutional enterpeneurship and morphogenesis

Tuesday 7th January

Margaret Archer – Don’t Forget the Double Morphogenesis

Tony Lawson – The Modern Corporation as an Out-of-Control Mechanism of Social Change

Andrea Maccarini – Turbulence and Relational Conjunctures: The Emergence of Morphogenetic Environments

Wolfgang Hofkirchner – ‘Mechanisms’ around information society

Wednesday 8th January

Douglas Porpora – Why Don’t Things Change?

Ismael Al-Amoudi and John Latsis – Death Contested: Morphonecrosis and Conflicts of Interpretation