Professor Tony Lawson

Discretionary Award 2024, Professorial Research Fellowship 2011-14

Cambridge Social Ontology Summer School

This Summer School aims to bring interested parties together to enable them to study systematically some of the main themes and topics covered in Cambridge Social Ontology.

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Professorial Research Fellowship

Professor Tony Lawson’s research programme at the University of Cambridge generated a book and papers on a range of topics, as well as supporting participation in workshops and networks.

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Research outcomes

Lawson, T. (2016).

Comparing conceptions of social ontology: emergent social entities and/or institutional facts?. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 46(4), 359-399.

Lawson, T. (2015).

Essays on: The nature and state of modern economics. Routledge.

Areas of interest

Social Ontology Economics Philosophy of Economics

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Discretionary Award Professorial Research Fellowship

Biography

Tony Lawson is Professor of Economics and Philosophy in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, a former director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, and co-founder of the Cambridge Realist Workshop and the Cambridge Social Ontology Group. Lawson is noted for his contributions to heterodox economics and to philosophical issues in social theorising, most especially to social ontology.

Biographical details correct as of 21.08.25