International Conference "Methodological Individualism and Contemporary Social Sciences"
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