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    Professor Margaret Archer

    Centre for Social Ontology 2011-13, Centre for Social Ontology 2014-16

    Centre for Social Ontology – University of Warwick

    With Professor Ismael Al-Amoudi

    The Centre for Social Ontology (CSO) was established in 2011 at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where Professor Margaret Archer was ISRF Chair in Social Theory 2011-2013. Following a move to the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, its main focus was the Morphogenetic Project.

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    Professor Margaret Archer was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She founded the Centre for Social Ontology in 2011 at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). She led the Centre as its Director until 2017 and then as its General Editor. She was elected as the first woman President of the International Sociological Association (1986 – 1990) and was appointed by Pope Francis as President of the pontifikal Academy of

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    Mark Carrigan

    I first met Maggie Archer as a philosophy student in my early 20s. I arrived at the University of Warwick for an MA hoping that the continental philosophy the department was renowned for would prove less stultifying than the analytic philosophy I had studied as an undergraduate. After this experience the core module she ran between the sociology and philosophy departments was a breath of fresh air, exposing me to an entirely new mode of thinking which I found intoxicating. Ironically, it was Maggie who introduced me to Richard Rorty, subsequently leading me to spend this year as a committed neopragmatist, arguing at length with her that philosophy was ultimately a self-defeating discipline which should ultimately be collapsed into literature and poetry. In spite of what I would come to learn was the absolute depth of her opposition to the stance I was taking, she was never anything less than encouraging. It was the first of many encounters I had with her intellectua

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    Margaret Archer

    English sociologist (1943–2023)

    For fictional character from BBC soap opera The Archers, see Peggy Woolley.

    Margaret Scotford ArcherFAcSS MAE (20 January 1943 – 21 May 2023) was a British sociologist, who spent most of her academic career at the University of Warwick where she was for many years Professor of Sociology. She was also a professor at l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. She is best known for coining the term elisionism in her 1995 book Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach. On 14 April 2014, Archer was named by Pope Francis to succeed former Harvard law professor and US Ambassador to the Holy SeeMary Ann Glendon as President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences,[2] and served in this position until her retirement on 27 March 2019.

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    Archer studied at the University of London, graduating BSc in 1964 and PhD in 1967 with a thesis on The Educational Aspirations of English Workin

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