BASIC INFORMATION
Francesco DI IORIO
Male
Associate Professor, College of Philosophy
Office: 510 Tongyan Road 38, Haihe Education Park, Jinnan District, Tianjin, P.R.China-300350
PHONE: +86 18526650134
Email: francesco-di-iorio@outlook.com
Areas of Research: Epistemology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences
BIO
I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Nankai University in Tianjin (China). My research interests focus on the philosophy of social science, particularly non-atomistic methodological individualism, phenomenological hermeneutics, fallibilism, ordinary rationality, complex systems, reductionism and collective intentionality. I earned my PhD in Philosophy from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) and the Center for Research in Applied Epistemology (CREA) of the École Polytechnique (France) in 2012. Before joining Nankai University, I held postdoctoral positions at Duke University (USA) and Sorbonne University (FMSH Fernand Braudel fellowship) and teaching positions at ESCP Europe Business School Paris (France), Luiss University (Italy) and Southeast University (China). I serve as editorial board member for the SAGE journal Philosophy of the Social Sciences since 2018. Moreover, I am a member of the steering committee of the Asian Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ANPOSS). In 2017 I was awarded the Tianjin Young Scholars Program Prize.
ACADEMIC TITLES
–2022-2032: Italian National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science / Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale come Professore di Seconda Fascia per il Settore Concorsuale 11/C2 (Logica, Storia e Filosofia della Scienza) valida dal 04/10/2022 al 04/10/2032 (This allows me to apply for a position of Associate Professor of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science in Italy)
-2020-2029: Italian National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor of Sociology / Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale come Professore di Seconda Fascia per il Settore Concorsuale 14/C1 (Sociologia Generale) valida dal 18/11/2020 al 18/11/2029 (This allows me to apply for a position of Associate Professor of Sociology in Italy)
– 2019: Habilitation to supervise PhD students in China
– 2016: Associate Professor (Department of Philosophy, Nankai University, China – One Hundred Young Academic Leaders Program of Nankai University and Tianjin Thousand Talents Program Prize)
– 2015-2016: Associate Professor (Department of Public Administration, Southeast University, China).
– 2013-2017: French National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor of Philosophy (Qualification aux fonctions de Maître de Conférences). This allowed me to apply for a position of Associate Professor of Philosophy in France – research field: Philosophy (17)
– 2013-2017: French National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor of Epistemology and History of Science (Qualification aux fonctions de Maître de Conférences). This allowed me to apply for a position of Associate Professor of Epistemology and History of Science in France) – research field: and Epistemology and History of Science (72).
EDUCATION
– 2012: PhD in Philosophy, with honors, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)/ Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée of École Polytechnique (CREA), Paris, France – Dissertation Title: « Cognitive Autonomy and Methodological Individualism » – PhD Advisor : Jean Petitot (EHESS/École Polytechnique) – Co-Advisor: Enzo Di Nuoscio (Università del Molise/Luiss University).
–2005 : DEA (Master in Advanced Studies) in Phylosophy, with honors, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France – Dissertation Title: “The Theory of Self-Organization in Hayek’s Thought”/ Advisor : Jean Petitot (EHESS/ École Polytechnique)
–2001 : Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in Political Science, First Class Honours, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali – Guido Carli (LUISS), Rome, Italy/ Advisor: Dario Antiseri (LUISS)
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
–2016-Present: Associate Professor, Nankai University, China – One Hundred Young Academic Leaders Program of Nankai University (Philosophy of Social Science)
–2015-2016: Associate Professor, Southeast University, China (Philosophy of Social Science).
-2014-2015: Temporary Lecturer at ESCP Europe Paris, France (Philosophy of Social Science).
-2014-2015: Adjunct Professor (Philosophy of Social Science), LUISS University, Rome, Italy
-2014 (March/December – 9 months): Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Groupe d’études des méthodes de l’analyse sociologique de la Sorbonne (GEMASS) – Sorbonne Paris 4 University, Paris, France (Fernand Braudel incoming Fellowship)/Visiting Scholar at La Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH), Paris, France.
–2012-1014: Adjunct Professor (Philosophy of Social Science), LUISS University, Rome, Italy.
–2013 (Juanuary/July – 7 months): Postdocoral Research Fellow, Duke University (Center for the History of Political Economy), USA (post-doc supervisor: Bruce Caldwell).
–2009-2012 : Research Fellow / Assegnista di ricerca (Departmnet of Political Science), LUISS University, Rome, Italy
– 2007-2010 : Teaching Assistant (Philosophy of Social Science), LUISS University, Rome, Italy.
– 2006-2007: Organization of the seminar : « Aperçus sur quelques problèmes d’épistémologie de l’histoire » (The Methodology of History), CREA of École Polytechnique, Paris, France.
– 2006-2007: Co-organization of the seminar “La logique de l’action” (The Logic of Action) with Marian Eabrasu (Paris 8 University) and Nikolay Gertchev (European Commission, Brussels, Belgium), Panthéon-Assas Paris II University, Paris, France.
– 2005-2006: Co-organization of the seminar « Sociologie, systèmes complexes et évolution culturelle » with David Chavalarias (CREA, École Polytechnique), CREA of École Polytechnique, Paris, France.
– 2003-2008: adjunct instructor (Philosophy of Social Science), Università degli Studi del Molise, Campobasso, Italy.
OTHER SCHOLARLY APPOINTMENTS
-2022: Member of the Scientific Committee for the 2022 Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS), University of Malaga, Spain, September 21-23, 2022.
-2020-2021: Member of the Scierntific Committee for the The Asian Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ANPOSS), the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS), and the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable (POSS-RT) 2021 joint conference, March 4-7, 2021, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.
-2020: Visiting Professor, Gemass Research center, Sorbonne University, Paris, France (January 24-27, 2020)
-2020: Visiting Professor, Human Sciences Department, University of Molise, Italy (January 13-23 and February 29-14).
–2019-2021: International collaborator for the Project “Consilience and Ontological Turn: Agent-Based Computational Economics in the History and Philosophy of Science” of which Professor Shu-Heng Chen from Chengchi University in Taipei is the principal investigator.
-2018 -Present: Member of the steering committee of the Asian Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ANPOSS).
-2019: Member of the Scientific Committee for the 2019 Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS), Athens, The National Technical University of Athens (Greece), 28 – 30 August 2019.
-2019: Visiting Scholar, Institut Jean Nicod, École normale supérieure, France (January 27 – February 1).
-2019: Visiting Professor, Human Sciences Department, University of Molise, Italy (January 12-26 and February 2-14).
-2018: Visiting Professor, GEMASS, Sorbonne Paris4 Univerisity, France (February 1-February 7).
-2018: Visiting Professor, Human Sciences Department, University of Molise, Italy (January 22-31 and February 8-23).
-2017- Present: Member of the Association of the Italian Academics in China (AAIC)
-2017: Visiting Professor, CAMS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France (January 29-February 2).
-2017: Visiting Professor, Human Sciences Department, University of Molise, Italy (January 20-28 and February 3-8).
-2016-2017: Member of the Scientific Committee for the 6th Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS), Kracow University of Economics, Krakow (Poland), September 20-22, 2017.
– 2016: Member of the International Program Committee for the Economics in the Era of Natural Computationalism and Big Data Conference. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the “Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata” by John von Neumann, Duke University (USA), November 11- 13, 2016.
– 2013: Member of the History of Economics Society (HES)
– 20o7-2011: Member of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS)
– 2010: Member of the Research Center “Osservatorio sul Buon governo Luigi Einaudi” Associazione Polis , Piemonte Orientale University, Italy.
– 2007-2010: Member of the Methodology of Social Sciences Centre (CMSS), LUISS University, Rome, Italy – Director: Dario Antiseri.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
– 2011-Present : Referee for the journals Mind (Oxford University Press), Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Sage), Synthese (Springer), International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Routledge), Social Science Information (Sage), History of Political Economy (Duke University Press), Journal of the History of Economic Thought (Cambridge University Press), Adaptive Behavior (SAGE), Sage OPEN (Sage), Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (Erasmus University, Rotterdam), Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (Emerald), Revue de Philosophie économique (Vrin), Oeconomia: History, Methodology, Philosophy (CNRS), Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems (Croatian Interdisciplinary Society), The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics (Mises Institute, Auburn, AL.), Journal of Market and Morality (Acton Institute)
– 2016-Present: Book reviewer for Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Wiley and Brill.
-2020-present Member of the Network “Talents for Southern Italy” created by the Italian Minister for the South (membro della “Rete Talenti per il Sud” promossa dal Ministero per il Sud e la Coesione Territoriale)
-2020-present Center for Market Education Fellow, Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
-2019-present Member of the Aspen Institute Comunità dei Talenti italiani all’estero (Community of the Italian Talents Abroad), Aspen Institute Italia.
-2019 Organizer of the Asian Conference on the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Selected papers from the conference will be published in the journal Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Invited speakers: Alban Bouvier (Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure), Fan Guangxin (Nankai University), Daniel Little (University of Michigan-Dearborn), Uskali Maki (University of Helsinki/Nankai University), Paul A. Roth (University of California, Santa Cruz), and Tang Shiping (Fudan University). Conference website: https://asiancposs.wordpress.com/
-2017 September: Organizer of the International Workshop “Nanakai Univeristy Workshop on the Philosophy of Economics and the Social Sciences”, Nankai University, Tianjin (China). Speakers: Bruce Caldwell (Duke University), Chor-yung Cheung (City University of Hong Kong), Paul Dumouchel (Ritsumeikan University), Uskali Maki (University of Helsinki/Nankai University), Jean Petitot (Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Barry Smith (State University of New York at Buffalo), and Stephen Turner (University of South Florida).
–2011 September : Archival Research at Hayek Archive, Hoover Institution, Stanford University – San Francisco, USA – (financed by the Crea-École Polytechnique and Stanford University) – invited by Professor Robert Leeson (Stanford University).
– 2009 July-August: Summer fellow, Mises Institute, Auburn, Al., USA, (Margaret Rowley fellowship).
– 2009 July : Organizer of the International Colloquium Actualité de l’individualisme méthodologique (The Contemporary Relevance of Methodological Individualism), Sorbonne University Paris I, Paris (France). Partial list of the speakers : Dario Antiseri (Luiss University), Raymond Boudon (Sorbonne Paris 4/ Institut de France), Alban Bouvier (Institu Jean Nicod, École normale supérieure), Gerald Bronner (Paris Diderot university/ Institut de France), Michel Dubois (CNRS/Sorbonne Paris 4), Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Ecole polytechnique/Stanford University), Jean Petitot (EHESS/Ecole polytechnique)
– 2008 May-August: Summer fellow, Mises Institute, Auburn, Al., USA, (Margaret Rowley fellowship).
– 2007 July-August: Summer fellow, Mises Institute, Auburn, Al., USA, (Margaret Rowley fellowship).
– 2007 June: Organizer of the international workshop “Evolution culturelle” (Cultural Evolution), CREA, École Polytechnique, Paris, France. Partial list of the speakers: Dario Antiseri (Luiss University), Raymond Boudon (Sorbonne Paris 4/ Institut de France), Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Ecole polytechnique/Stanford University), Jean Petitot (EHESS/Ecole polytechnique)
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
– Philosophy of the Social Sciences , Sage –2018
– Studies in Classical Liberalism Book series, Palgrave-Mcmillan, UK –2017
– –Oeconomia: History, Methodology, Philosophy, — 2020
– Cosmos + Taxis. Studies in Emergent Order and Organizations (on-line peer-reviewed journal published by Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia, Canada) –2013
– Mises. Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, Laws and Economics (on-line peer-reviewed journal published by the Instituto Mises Brasil) –2018
PhD SUPERVISOR
2021- present: Ren Ran (Nankai University), Epistemology and Complexity Economics
2021-present: Biqi Peng (Nankai University), Collective Intentionality, Cultural Evolution and Methodological Individualism
EXTERNAL PhD EXAMINER
2018: Jacopo Marchetti (University of Florence/ University of Pisa, Italy), outside committee member. Title of the dissertation: ‘Thinking the Order. Mind, Evolution and Institutions’ (Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge). PhD supervisor: Raimondo Cubeddu (University of Pisa).
LANGUAGES
English, French, Italian
RESEARCH GRANTS
-2019: Chenchi University, Taipei, grant for the project period 2019-2021. Project “Consilience and Ontological Turn: Agent-Based Computational Economics in the History and Philosophy of Science”
–2016: One Hundred Young Academic Leaders Program of Nankai University Intial Research Found
AWARDS
-2017 Tianjin Thousand Talents Program
-2015 Nankai One Hundred Young Academic Leaders Program
-2014 FMSH-Fernand Braudel Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.
-2013 Warren J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholars Program (to attend the Vancouver meetings of the History of Economics Society June 20-22, 2013).
-2013 Hope Center-Duke University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
-2009 Luiss University 4 years Research Fellowship (2009-2012).
– 2009: “Humane Studies Fellow” IHS – George Mason University, Washington DC (USA)
– 2008: “Humane Studies Fellow” IHS – George Mason University, Washington DC (USA)
– 2007: “Humane Studies Fellow”, IHS – George Mason University, Washington DC (USA)
– 2006: Franco-Italian University Fellowship, Franco-Italian University (UFI) of Grenoble, France.
– 2003: Fondazione Einaudi Fellowship, Rome, Fondazione Einaudi.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
-2022 (July) “Contemporary Debates on Methodological Individualism: Reductionism, Supervenience and Collective Intentionality” (online), Seminar organized by the Department of Political and Social Sciences (21/07/2022), University of Bologna (Italy).
-2021 “Opening Remarks”, The Asian Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ANPOSS), the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS), and the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable (POSS-RT) 2021 joint conference, March 4-7, 2021, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan (day 1, online) / Chair of session 8 “Economic Approaches, Poverty and Gender” (day 4, online).
-2019 Keynote lecture “On Prediction in the Social Sciences, WEDHIA 2019 (as a satellite of DADA 2019 conference), Taiwan Normal University, Taipei
-2019 “On the connections between Agent-Based Simulation and Methodological Individualism”, 8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Philosophy of Science, Fudan University, Shanghai (China).
-2019 (June) “Individualisme méthodologique et réductionnisme”, L’individualisme méthodologique aujourd’hui conference, École française de Rome (Italy).
-2019 (June) “Opening remarks”, Asian Conference on the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin (China)
-2019 (January) “Individualisme méthodologique, loi de Hume et responsabilité de l’agir”, Sorbonne University, Paris (France).
-2018 (August) “Individualisme méthodologique, loi de Hume et responsabilité de l’agir” (Forum de la Société Française de Philosophie); “Understanding Cultural Differences: Raymond Boudon’s Ordinary Rationality”, 24th World Congress of Philosophy, Peking University, Beijing (China).
-2018 (August) “Understanding Cultural Differences: Raymond Boudon’s Ordinary Rationality”, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, CASS, Beijing (China).
-2018 (June) “The Unintended consequences of Human Action”, Renmin University, Beijing (China).
-2018 (April) “World 3 and Methodological Individualism in Popper’s Thought”, Tsinghua University, Beijing (China)
-2018 (March) “The Unintended Consequences of Human Action”, Shanxi University workshop on the philosophy of the social sciences, Shanxi University (China)
-2018 (February) “Individualisme méthodologique et réductionnisme” Les Grandes Conférences du Gemass, Sorbonne University Paris 4 (France).
-2018 (January) “Hayek on the Problem of Prediction in the Social Sciences”, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain (UAE).
-2017 (December) “Methodological Individualism and Reductionism” 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Philosophy of Science, Chung Chen University, Chiayi.
-2017 (May) “World 3 and Methodological Individualism in Popper’s Thought”, Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy (TFAP) University of Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan).
-2017 (January), “Methodological Individualism and Social Complexity”, Inequality and Catastrophe: Justice and Reciprocity International Conference, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto (Japan).
-2016 (November), “Hayek as a Methodological Individualist”, Economics in the Era of Natural Computationalism and Big Data Conference. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the “Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata” by John von Neumann, Duke University (USA), November 11- 13, 2016.
-2016 (June), “Karl Popper on Knowledge and Human Fallibility”, Philosophy Department Lectures, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.
-2016 (April), “Hayek as a Methodological Individualist” and “Sensory Order and Methodological Individualism”, Herbert Simon Lectures, Chengchi University, Taipei (two invited lectures).
-2016 (January), Discussant at “The Skill of Feeling With the World Workshop”, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.
-2015 (May), “The Two Reductionist Interpretations of Methodological Individualism”, Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
-2015 (February), “World 3 and Methodological Individualism in Popper’s Thought”, The Written Word Symposium, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria.
-2014 (October), “L’équivoque réductionniste: individualisme méthodologique et systèmes sociaux”, CEPERC – Aix-en-Provence, France.
-2013 (June) “Is Methodological Individualism a Reductionist Approach?”, History of Economic Society (HES) Annual Conference, University Of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
-2013 (April) “Is Methodological Individualism a Reductionist Approach?”, NYU’s Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes, New York University, New York (USA).
– 2013 (April) “Why Methodological Individualism is not a Reductionist Theory”, F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, George Mason University, Washington,USA.
– 2013 (March) “Is Methodological Individualism a Reductionist Theory?” CHOPE Seminar, Duke University, USA.
– 2012 (January) Hayek and Merleau-Ponty on Mind and Action, “Norms, Values and Normative Argumentation” workdhop, EHESS, Paris (France).
– 2011 (Novemeber) “Hume’s law and its Relevance for Social Sciences”, workshop “Aesthetics of Liberty”, Scuola di alta formazione in Antropologia della Libertà, Piemonte Orientale University, Dogliani, Italy.
– 2010 (December) “Merleau-Ponty’s Neuro-Phenomenology”, Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science (Silfs) 2010 International Conference, Bergamo, Italy.
– 2010 (May) “Reconciling Mises and Popper”, Seminario dell’Istituto Bruno Leoni, Istituto Bruno Leoni (IBL) Milan, Italy.
– 2009 (November) “Mind, Market and Open Society in Hayek’s Thought”, L’ideale del Buon governo Colloquium, Osservatorio sul buon governo, Piemonte Orientale University, Dogliani, Italy.
– 2009 (November) “Enactive Paradigm and Social Sciences”, Bodily Self and Its World seminar, CREA-Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.
– 2009 (June) « Hayek’s The Sensory Order and Gadamer’s Hermeneutics » Actualité de l’individualisme méthodologique Colloquium, Sorbonne Paris I, Paris, France.
– 2009 (May) “Mises and Popper on Epistemology”, IMT seminars, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy.
– 2009 (April) « Hayek and Boudon on Action », séminaire interne CREA-Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.
– 2009 (March) “Sensory Order and Methodological Individualism” NYU’s Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes, New York University, New York (USA).
– 2009 (March) “Boudon and his Criticism of Hayek’s Theory of Beliefs”, Austrian Scholars Conference (ASC) 2009 International Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn, Al., (USA).
– 2008 (November) “Hayek’s Epistemology of Action” Austrian Research Seminar, IRGEI, Pamthéon-Assas University Paris II, France.
– 2008 (July) “Hayek’s Theory of the Sensory Order and its Epistemological Consequences” Summer Fellows Final Research Speech, Mises Institute, Auburn, AL. (USA)
– 2008 (April) “Apriorism and Fallibilism: Mises and Popper on the Explanation of Action and Social Phenomena” Austrian Research Seminar, IRGEI, Panthéon-Assas University Paris II, France.
– 2008 (March) “Reconciling Mises and Popper”, Austrian Scholars Conference 2008 (ASC) International Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn, AL., (USA).
– 2007 (October) “Self-Organization of the Mind and Methodological Individualism in Hayek’s Thought”, Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS) 2007 International Conference, Milan, Italy.
– 2007 (June) “L’indéterminisme de l’action dans la théorie de l’évolution culturelle de Hayek Workshop” Evolution culturelle, CREA, École Polytechnique, Paris, France.
– 2007 (May) “The Theory of Self-organization in Hayek’s Thought”, Institute for Humane Studies 6th Annual Humane Studies Fellows Research Colloquium, IHS-George Mason University, Washington D.C. (USA).
– 2006 (May) “Popper et l’explication causale en histoire ”, Séminaire “Histoire et méthode générale”, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
-Under contract: (Editor with Nathalie Bulle, CNRS/Sorbonne University), Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume 1, Palgrave MacMillan, work in progress.
-Under contract: (Editor with Nathalie Bulle, CNRS/Sorbonne University), Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume 2, Palgrave MacMillan, work in progress.
-2021: (Editor with Hu Jun, Nankai University) 能动性与社会动力学——经济学哲学与社会科学哲学论文集 Agency and Social Dynamics. Essays in the Philosophy of Economics and the Social Sciences (in Chinese), Nankai University Press.
-2018: (Editor with Gérald Bronner, Sorbonne University/French Academy of Technologies) The Mystery of Rationality. Mind, Beliefs and the Social Sciences, Springer, Cham
-2018: ポパーの思想における世界３と方法論的個人主義 (“World 3 and Methodological Individualism in Popper’s Thought”), Amazon kindle book published by the Japan Popper Society.
-2015: Cognitive Autonomy and Methodological Individualism: The Interpretative Foundations of Social Life, Springer, Cham – book series “Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics”.
French Translation: Autonomie cognitive et individualisme méthodologique, Éditions Hermann, Paris – book séries « Société et Pensées », accepted for publication.
Journal Special Issues
-In Progress: Special Issue: Selected Papers from the Joint Conference of the Asian Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, and the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable. Guest editor (with Chor-yung Cheung, Paul Dumouchel, Reiko Gotoh, Mark Tamthai, Kei Yoshida, Alban Bouvier, Byron Kaldis, Eleonora Montuschi, Julie Zahle, Jesús Zamora-Bonilla, David Henderson, Kareem Khalifa, Mark Risjord, Paul Roth, Deborah Tollefsen, Stephen Turner), Philosophy of the Social Sciences (SAGE) forthcoming.
-2020: Special Issue: Selected Papers from the Asian Conference on the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Nankai University, 1-2 June, 2019. Guest editor with (Chor-yung Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Paul Dumouchel, Ritsumeikan University, Reiko Gotoh, Hitotsubashi University, Mark Tamthai, Payap University, Kei Yoshida, Waseda University), Philosophy of the Social Sciences (SAGE), Volume 50 Issue 3, June 2020.
– Methodological Individualism, Structural Constraints and Social Complexity, Cosmos +Taxis. Studies in Emergent Order and Organization (Simon Fraser University/University of British Columbia), double special issue, Vol. 3 / issues 2+3, 2016 (114 pages).
-2011: Liberalismo e Anarcocapitalismo. La Scuola austriaca di economia (Coedited with Dario Antiseri and Enzo Di Nuoscio), Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine, Rai/Eri – Gennaio/Giugno 1/2 2011, special issue (556 pages)
Articles, Book Chapters, Reviews
-Forthcoming: “Methodological Individualism and Methodological Localism: A Discussion with Daniel Little” (with Daniel Little University of Michigan and Nathalie Bulle CNRS/Sorbonne), in Nathalie Bulle e Francesco Di Iorio (eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume II, Palgrave MacMillan, London, forthcoming
– Forthcoming: “Methodological Individualism and Social Facts: A Discussion with Steven Lukes” (with Steven Lukes, New York University, Francesco Di Iorio, Nathalie Bulle CNRS/Sorbonne), in Nathalie Bulle e Francesco Di Iorio (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume II, Palgrave MacMillan, London, forthcoming.
– Forthcoming: “Methodological Individualism and Institutional Individualism: A Discussion with Joseph Agassi” (with Joseph Agassi, York University and Nathalie Bulle, CNRS/Sorbonne), in Nathalie Bulle and Francesco Di Iorio (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume II, Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming.
-Forthcoming: “Methodologica Individualism and Reductionism” in Nathalie Bulle and Francesco Di Iorio (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume II, Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming.
-2022: “On Situational Analysis and the Explanatory Power of Mechanisms: Analytical Sociology and the Deductive-Nomological Model” (with Enzo Di Nuoscio), Social Science Information, First Published February 25, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/05390184221078737.
-2022: “The Structure of Complexity and the Limits of Collective Intentionality”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, First Published February 15, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931221074294.
-2021: 方法论个体主义、结构限制和社会复杂性 (Methodological Individualism, Structural Constraints and Social Complexity) in Francesco Di Iorio and Hu Jun (Nankai University) 能动性与社会动力学——经济学哲学与社会科学哲学论文集 (Agency and Social Dynamics. Essays in the Philosophy of Economics and the Social Sciences), Nankai University Press.
-2021: 引言 (introduction, with Hu Jun, Nankai University) to 能动性与社会动力学——经济学哲学与社会科学哲学论文集 (Agency and Social Dynamics. Essays in the Philosophy of Economics and the Social Sciences), Nankai University Press.
-2021: “Analytical sociology and critical realism” (with Francisco León-Medina, University of A Coruña) in Manzo G. (ed.), Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology, Edward Elgar Publishing.
– 2021: “Raimondo Cubeddu, l’ordine sensoriale e il fondamento neurobiologico del soggettivismo e dell’individualismo” in A. Masala, M. Menon, F. Monceri (eds.), La passione della libertà. Saggi in onore di Raimondo Cubeddu, IBL Libri, Milano.
-2021: Book review of “F.A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics (Routledge, 2020)” by Scott Scheall. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (Routledge), ahead-of-print, pp. 1–2 (https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2021.1936716).
-2020: “Nominalism, supervenience and methodological individualism”, Politica.eu. Rivista Telematica Interdisciplinare, Onlinefirst, Pagine Nuove October 2020, pp. 30-46.
-2020: “Individualisme méthodologique et réductionnisme”, L’Année Sociologique (Presses universitaires de France), 2020/1 (Vol. 70), pp. 97-128.
-2019: “On the Connection Between Agent-Based Simulation and Methodological Individualism” (with Shu-Heng Chen, Chengchi University), Social Science Information, May 2019 – OnlineFirst, pp. 1-23.
-2019: “Filosofia della scienza e scienze sociali” (with Enzo Di Nuoscio, University of Molise) in P. Barrotta e E. Montuschi (eds.), La Filosofia della Scienza in Italia, Armando, Roma, 2019, pp. 285-305.
-2018: “Introduction: Rationality as an Enigmatic Concept” (with Gérald Bronner, Paris-Diderot University/French Academy of Technologies) in Gérald Bronner and Francesco Di Iorio The Mystery of Rationality. Mind, Beliefs and the Social Sciences, Springer, Cham, pp. 1-6.
-2018: “Economic Explanation as Translation: Hermeneutics, Fallibilism and Austrian Methodology”, Prospettiva Persona, n. 103, 2018- 3-26, pp. 37-39.
-2018: “From the Hermeneutics of Mind to the Hermeneutics of Capital”, Storia Libera, n.7, Marzo 2018, pp. 203-209.
– 2017: “The Ant Trap” (Oxford University Press, 2015) by Brian Epstein, Philosophy of the Social Sciences (with Catherine Herfeld, University of Zurich), onLineFirst, DOI: 10.1177/0048393117724757 | First Published August 31, 2017, pp. 1-24.
-2017: Hayek on Mind and Anti-Foundationalism, Politica.eu. Rivista Telematica Interdisciplinare, Dicembre 2017, Anno 3, n.2, pp. 5-12.
-2016: “World 3 and Methodological Individualism in Popper’s Thought”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 2016, vol. 46(4), pp. 352-374 .
-2016: Francesco Di Iorio, “Introduction: Methodological Individualism, Structural Constraints and Social Complexity” in Cosmos +Taxis. Studies in Emergent Order and Organization, double special issue, Vol. 3 / issues 2+3, 2016, pp. 1-8.
-2015: “Hayek and the Hermeneutics of Mind”, Social Science Information, 2015, Vol. 54(2), pp. 177-191.
-2014: “Rethinking Boudon’s Cognitive Rationality in the Light of Mises’ Apriorism and Gadamer’s Hermeneutics” (coauthored with Enzo Di Nuoscio), Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines, ISSN (Online) 2153-1552, ISSN (Print) 2194-5799, DOI: 10.1515/jeeh-2014-0010, December 2014, pp. 1-14.
-2013: “Cognitive Autonomy and Epistemology of Action in Hayek’s and Merleau-Ponty’s Thought” in R. Frantz and R. Leeson (eds.) Hayek and Behavioral Economics (with a foreword by Vernon Smith, Nobel Economics Prize Winner), Palgrave Macmillan 2013 (refereed book chapter), pp. 149-176.
-2013: “Maurice Merleau-Ponty: dalla neuro-fenomenologia alla critica dell’olismo sociologico” in D. Antiseri (Ed.), La responsabilità del filosofo. Studi in onore di Massimo Baldini, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2013, pp. 44-51.
-2013: (Invited Book Foreword) “Dalla filosofia alla scienza, e ritorno: l’analisi della conoscenza tra epistemologia e scienze cognitive” (with Enzo Di Nuoscio and Gustavo Cevolani), introduction to J-M. Besnier, Teorie della conoscenza, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2013 (Les théories de la connaissance, PUF -Italian translation), pp. 5-14.
-2012: “Mind, Market and Open Society in Hayek’s Thought” in P. Heritier, P.Silvestri (Eds.), Good Government, Governance, Human Complexity. Luigi Einaudi’s Legacy and Contemporary Societies , Leo Olschki, Firenze, 2012 (refereed book chapter), pp. 235-249.
-2012: “Il paradigma enattivo e la sociologia individualistica” in R. De Mucci & Kurt Leube (Eds.), Un austriaco in Italia – An Austrian in Italy. Festschrift in Honour of Dario Antiseri, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2012, pp. 59-84.
-2011: “Hayek and Merleau-Ponty on Mind and Interpretative Sociology” in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Vol. IX, No. 1, 2011, pp. 437-443 (Proceedings of SILFS Conference).
-2011: “Da Kant alla complessità: il “nuovo Illuminismo” di Jean Petitot, in Nuova Civiltà delle macchine, Gennaio/Giugno 1/2 2011, pp. 531-547.
-2011: “Introduzione: Liberalismo e Anarcocapitalismo. La Scuola austriaca di economia” (with Dario Antiseri, Luiss Guido Carli and Enzo Di Nuoscio, Università’ del Molise, Luiss Guido Carli) in Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine, Rai RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana/Eri – Gennaio/Giugno 1/2 2011, pp. 5-8.
-2010: “The Sensory Order and the Neurophysiological Basics of Methodological Individualism” in William N. Butos (Ed.) The Social Science of Hayek’s the Sensory Order – Advances in Austrian Economics volume 13, Emerald, UK, 2010, pp. 179-209 (refereed book chapter).
-2010: “Self-Organization of the Mind and Methodological Individualism in Hayek’s Thought” in M. D’Agostino, G. Giorello, F, Laudisa, T. Pievani, C. Sinigaglia (Eds.), Silfs. New Essays in Logic and Philosophy of Science (Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science), London, UK, College Publications, 2010, pp. 389-401 (refereed book chapter).
-2009: “Hayek’s Connectionist Psychology as a Defense for the Sociology of Good Reasons”, in Mohammed Cherkaoui & Peter Hamilton (Eds.), Raymond Boudon. A life in Sociology. Essays in Honour of Raymond Boudon, 4 volumes, Oxford, UK, The Bardewell Press, 2009, pp. 145-174.
-2008: “Apriorism and Fallibilism: Mises and Popper on the Explanation of Action and Social Phenomena”, in Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine, anno XXVI, n. 4- 2008, pp. 5-32.
-2008: “Why Mises’ Apriorism and Popper’s Fallibilism are not Incompatible (I)”, in Nomoi n. 3, 2008. Revista Digital de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas – Fundacion F. A. Hayek (Argentina) y Universidad Francisco Marroquin (Guatemala), pp. 19-29.
-2008: “Why Mises’ Apriorism and Popper’s Fallibilism are not Incompatible (II)”, in Nomoi n. 4, 2008. Revista Digital de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas – Fundacion F. A. Hayek (Argentina) y Universidad Francisco Marroquin (Guatemala), pp. 16-24.
-2007: “L’espace poppérien du raisonnement historique: trois critiques contre le dualisme méthodologique de Jean-Claude Passeron” in Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine, n. 2, 2007, pp. 77-94.
-2007: “Evidence de l’histoire ”, François Hartog, Nuova Civiltà delle macchine, ANNO XXV – N°1 – 2007, pp. 158-159.
-2007: “Le rite et la raison. Wittgenstein anthropologue”, Philippe De Lara, Nuova Civiltà delle macchine, ANNO XXV – N°2 – 2007, pp. 153-155.
– 2007: “Le métier de sociologue. Préalables épistémologiques” (Cinquième édition), P. Bourdieu, J-C. Chanboredon, J-C. Passeron, in Nuova Civiltà delle macchine, ANNO XXV – N°2 – 2007, pp. 155-156.
-2007: “Les théories de la connaissance”, J-M Besnier, Nuova Civiltà delle macchine, ANNO XXV – N°2 – 2007, pp. 156-158.
Working Papers
-2017: “Agent-Based Simulation as an Implementation Of Methodological Individualism” (with Shu-Heng Chen, National Chengchi University) (December 7, 2017). The Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper Series/ Duke University. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3084110
-2013: “Nominalism and Systemic Approach: On the Non-Reductionist Nature of Methodological Individualism,” CHOPE Working Paper No. 2013-07, Duke University.
-2013″ “Hayek’s The Sensory Order and Gadamer’s Phenomenological Hermeneutics”, CHOPE Working Paper No. 2013-10, Duke University.
-2013: “Are Hermeneutics and the Austrian Approach Compatible? A Clarifying Analysis”, CHOPE Working Paper No. 2013-06, Duke University.
-2006: “Dalla teoria della dispersione della conoscenza alla cibernetica economica: l’auto-organizzazine del mercato secondo F. von Hayek”, Quaderni del CMSS Luiss, Rome, Luiss Edizioni, 2006.
Translation Experience
-2013: P. Nemo & Jean Petitot (eds) Storia del liberalismo in Europa, Rubettino, Soveria Mannelli (book, 1440 pages), translation from French into Italian, with Federico Saviotti and Gustavo Cevolani (French edition : P. Nemo, Jean Petitot (sous la direction de) Histoire du libéralisme en Europe, Paris, Puf, 2006), 2013.
-2003: Raymond Boudon, “La conversione di Coleman alla teoria della scelta razionale: impressioni e congetture” (book chapter), Pierre Demeulenaeire, “Le norme della razionalità” (book chpater), in Enzo Di Nuoscio (Ed.), Filosofia dell’azione e teorie della razionalità, edizioni L.U.I.S.S. Roma, 2002, (translation from French into Italian). French version : Raymond Boudon “La conversion de Coleman à la théorie du choix rationnel : impressions et conjectures”, Revue française de sociologie 2003/2 – Vol. 44 / Pierre Demeulenaeire, “Les normes de la rationalité”.
Works in Progress
On the Limits of Collective Intentionality (with Paul Dumouchel, University of Quebec), collective book project.
Complexity and Unintended Consequences, book project.
Rational Choice Model (with Aki Lehtinen, Nankai University), book chapter in Finnish.
