International Conference "Methodological Individualism and Contemporary Social Sciences"

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Methodological Individualism and Contemporary Social Sciences

an International Conference organized by Nathalie Bulle

on Thursday and Friday, 6 & 7 July 2023 at Sorbonne University

Speakers : Salvatore Abbruzzese, Alban Bouvier, Nathalie Bulle, Pierre Demeulenaere, Francesco Di Iorio, Olivier Favereau, Wolf Feuerhahn, Renaud Fillieule, Jean-Baptiste Fleury, Erhard Friedberg, Gianluca Manzo, Jean-Michel Morin, Karl-Dieter Opp, Emmanuel Picavet, Christian Robitaille, Ricardo Viale, Ieva Zake

Thursday, July 6, Richelieu amphitheatre

9h30-12h30

MI: Foundations

Session chairman : Michel Dubois

  • Wolf Feuerhahn (CNRS/Centre Alexandre Koyré, France)

Max Weber and Understanding Explanation

  • Christian Robitaille (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Rationality, Praxeology, and History: The Contributions of Ludwig von Mises to the Theory of Rationality in the Social Sciences

  • Jean-Michel Morin (Université de Paris, France)

Ordinary Rationality Theory (ORT) According to Raymond Boudon

  • Nathalie Bulle (CNRS/Sorbonne University, France)

Methodological Individualism as Holism of the Parts

 

14h-18h

MI within Social Science Research

Session chairman : Ricardo Viale

  • Erhard Friedberg (Sciences Po University, Emeritus, Austria/France)

From bureaucracy to organized action: Methodological individualism and the study of organizations

  • Renaud Fillieule (Lille University/CNRS, France)

Methodological individualism/sociology of knowledge/cognitive sociology

  • Pierre Demeulenaere (Sorbonne University, France)

Methodological Individualism and Collective Representations

  • Jean-Baptiste Fleury (HDEA Sorbonne Université, France)

Methodological Individualism and the Foundations of the “Law and Economics” movement

  • Karl-Dieter Opp (Leipzig University/University of Washington, Emeritus, Germany/USA)

MI and Micro-Macro Modeling

  • Salvatore Abbruzzese (Trento University, Italy)

Applying Methodological Individualism in the Analysis of Religious Phenomena

  • Emmanuel Picavet (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France)

Individualistic models in collective norm-based regulation: the positive, normative and hermeneutic dimensions

 

Friday, July 7, Cauchy amphitheatre

9h30-12h30

Controversial Issues about MI

Session chairman : Pierre Demeulenaere

  • Ieva Zake (Millersville University, US)

Holistic Bias in Sociology: Contemporary Trends

  • Alban Bouvier  (Institut Jean Nicod)

Methodological Individualism and Contemporary Analytic philosophy

  • Francesco Di Iorio (Nankai University, China)

Methodological Individualism and Reductionism

  • Olivier Favereau (Paris Nanterre University, France)

Economics: A Methodological Individualism in Search of its Own Incompleteness

  • Riccardo Viale (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

Explaining Social Action by Embodied Cognition: From Methodological Cognitivism to Embodied Cognitive Individualism

  • Gianluca Manzo (CNRS/Sorbonne University, France)

Agent-Based Computational Models/MI

 

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