Pauline Souman

Doctorante à la chaire de philosophie théorique

Institut de philosophie

Espace Tilo-Frey 1
2000 Neuchâtel

Email : pauline.souman@unine.ch 

Bureau : 2.E.45

Phd dissertation: « Constructed Items: How We Make Them, What They Make Us Do »

Publications

  • Why Art Cannot (Technically) Malfunction (with Francesco Franda)
    Synthese, 206,10.

Talks 

  • 2026  « Can Artifactual Kinds and Social Kinds be Distinguished? », Filosofidagarna 2026, Stockholm University, Sweden, April 13.
  • 2026 “Searching for a Unified Theory of Artifact Function” with Francesco Franda, SCAO 2026 (Invited talk) University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, February 5.
  • 2025 “Social Constraint: A Capacity-Based Approach” ISOS 2025
    Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, August 8.
  • 2025 “Nothing Else Besides Power: Social Entities and the Eleatic Principle” SOPHA 2025
    Nantes University, France, July 1.
  • 2024 “Socio-Powers of Artifacts”
    Social Powers Workshop
    Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, Sweden, September 6.
  • 2024 “On the Causal Efficacy of Social Properties”
    World Congress of Philosophy
    Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, 4 August.
  • 2024 “Non-Human Agents: the Case of Artifacts”
    Issues on The (Im)Possible X
    Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 27 September