Experiments in Economics, Experiments in Philosophy
San Sebastian, July 27-29 (2011)
XIV Summer school on Economics and Philosophy. Organized by the University of the Basque Country and the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation.
Coordinators: Cristina
Bicchieri (UPenn), Jason Dana (UPenn), María Jiménez
Buedo (UNED)
Convenor: Alfonso Dubois (UPV/EHU)
http://www.urrutiaelejalde.org/SummerSchool/2011.html
1. Aims and scope:
Since 1998 the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation has annually organized a Summer
School on frontier topics between philosophy and economics and other social
sciences, bringing together scholars from all these fields to explore them. The
aim of this year Summer School is to explore the potential avenues for
collaboration between the growing disciplines of experimental economics and
experimental philosophy. Experimental economics has evolved into a thriving
subfield, as attested by the number of experimental papers published in leading
general economics journals. This growing enthusiasm for experiments in economics
has coincided with the revival of philosophical and methodological analyses of
causality, which view the controlled experiment as the privileged gate to
causal inference. But more importantly, in the last years, a new field known as
experimental philosophy has set out to complement or even substitute for
pre-theoretical intuitions regarding philosophical themes such as moral
dilemmas or rationality. At a moment in which experimental economics is already
well-established and experimental philosophy is emerging, this meeting compares
their main themes and results.
2. Preliminary list of speakers
Nicholas BARDSLEY (University of Reading), Giorgio
CORICELLI (CNRS,
Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon), Francesco GUALA (Univ. di Milano),Nagore
IRIBERRI (U.
Pompeu Fabra), Joshua KNOBE (Yale University), Daniel ZIZZO (University of East
Anglia), Cristina BICCHIERI (UPenn), Jason DANA (UPenn)
3. Call for papers
We encourage submission of papers that cover one or more of the above areas. The scientific committee will consider a number of submissions by young scholars at graduate or postgraduate level. The Foundation will cover the registration fees and accommodation expenses of the authors. Please send a pdf abstract of no more than 500 words to [log in to unmask] before April 1st. A decision will be made by April 15th.