ACADEMIC POSITIONS

January 2009 – .  Post-Doctoral Researcher, Trends and Tensions in Intellectual Integration (TINT), Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki

January 2006 – December 2008.  Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Philosophy, Erasmus University of Rotterdam

October 2005 – December 2005.  Scientific Researcher, Department of Philosophy, Erasmus University of Rotterdam 

OTHER POSITIONS 

August 2008 –. Book review editor, Journal of Economic Methodology

January 2007 – December 2009. Managing Director of the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam

EDUCATION

PhD in Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam (November 2005)

MPhil in Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam (July 2001)

BA & MA (cum laude) in Political Science, branch Political Economy, University of Padua, Italy (Fall 2000)

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Philosophy of the social sciences, Philosophy and methodology of economics, philosophy of explanation

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Philosophy of science, ethics and economics

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in International Refereed Journals

(2010) “Is geographical economics imperializing economic geography?” Journal of Economic Geography. With Uskali Mäki. Advance access: doi:10.1093/jeg/lbq021

(2010) “Economics as robustness analysis.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 61(3), 541-567. With Jaakko Kuorikoski and Aki Lehtinen. 

(2010) “How to make progress in theories of spatial clustering: A case study of Malmberg and Maskell's emerging theory”. Environment and Planning A 42 (10), 805-820. With Päivi Oinas 

(2009) “On the structure of explanatory unification: the case of geographical economics.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. 40: 2, 185-195 With Uskali Mäki

(2009) “The ultimate/proximate distinction in recent accounts of human cooperation.” Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 71(1), 87-117. With Jack Vromen

(2008) “Explanatory Pluralism and Complementarity: From autonomy to integration.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38(3), 314-333

(2006) “Contrastive explanation and unrealistic models: The case of the new economic geography.” Journal of Economic Methodology 13(4), 425-446

(2004) “Geographical economics versus economic geography: towards a clarification of the dispute.” Environment and Planning A 36 (10), 1737-1753

Editorship

(2010) “Neuroeconomics: hype or hope?” Special issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology edited jointly with Jack Vromen

Articles in edited volumes/special issues 

(Forthcoming) "Economics as usual. Geographical economics shaped by disciplinary conventions." Elgar Companion of Recent Economic Methodology, edited by J.B. Davis and D.W.Hands

(Forthcoming) “Forces towards and against scientific unification – Geographical economics and its neighbors.” Elsevier Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, vol. 13: Philosophy of Economics (ed. U. Mäki)

(2010) “Neuroeconomics: hype or hope? Introduction.” Journal of Economic Methodology, written jointly with Jack Vromen

(2009) “Scientific unification in economics. The case of the New Economic Geography.” Humana.Mente 10, 11-24

(2004) “Essay symposium: Scientific realism, geography and economics.” With Uskali Mäki, Päivi Oinas and Andrew Sayer, Environment and Planning A 36(10), 1717-1718

Book reviews

(2010) Book review of “The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics" edited by Harold Kincaid and Don Ross. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 3(2), 95-102

(2009) Book review of “Popper and economic methodology. Contemporary challenges” edited by Thomas Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman, Economics and Philosophy 25(2), 223-229

TEACHING

Academic Writing Workshop, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki, Spring 2010

Academic Writing Workshop, for PhD students, Florence, 4 June 2010, organized by STOREP.

Academic Writing Course, graduate course, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Fall and Spring 2008, Fall and Spring 2009 (with J. Vromen)

Regional Economics, undergraduate course, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Padua, Spring 2008

Unity and Disunity: Scientific and Metaphysical, graduate course, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Fall 2007 and Spring 2007 (with F.A. Muller)

Academic Writing Course, graduate course, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Fall and Spring 2007 (with J. Vromen)

Ethics and Economics: Development as Freedom, graduate course, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Spring 2006

Ethics and Economics: Morality in a Darwinian Universe, undergraduate course, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Spring 2006

Philosophy and Methodology of economics, introductory undergraduate course, University of Padua, Fall 2006

The Methodology of Geographical Economics and Economic Geography, short series of lectures for the graduate course ‘Territorial Economic Systems’, University of Padua, Spring 2005

Unity and Disunity: Scientific and Metaphysical, graduate course, Erasmus University of Rotterdam (as teaching assistant), Spring 2005

Value, Culture and Economy, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, (as teaching assistant), Fall and Spring 2003

MASTER THESIS SUPERVISION

Attilia Ruzzene ‘Causal knowledge in case-study research. A contextual analysis’ (Defended in March 2009; With distinction)

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY

Visits

Visiting lecturer (“professore a contratto”) at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Padua, Spring term 2008 

Research visit at the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki (Finland) June 2007- sponsored by Uskali Mäki

Guest lecturer and visiting researcher at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Padua September 2006- sponsored by Francesca Gambarotto

Presentations

* Invited talks

2010 Discussant at the Conference on Modeling in the Social Sciences: Interdisciplinary comparison, Helsinki, 17-18 June*; Annual Conference of the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (STOREP), Trento 30 May-1 June; Workshop on Market and Marketization*, Helsinki, 9-10 April; Conference on Causation and Explanation in Physics, Biology and Economics*, Barcelona, 18-20 February.

2009 Biannual conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Amsterdam 21-24 October 2009; Annual conference of the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (STOREP) Florence 2-4 June 2009; Conference of the International Network for Economic Method (INEM), Mexico 2-4 July.

2008 Conference of the International Network for Economic Method (INEM), Madrid (Spain); TINT conference on Models, Mechanisms and Interdisciplinary*, Helsinki (Finland).

2007 Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Madrid (Spain); Conference on Models and Simulations, Tilburg (The Netherlands); Conference of the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice, University of Twente (The Netherlands); Inaugural conference of Trends and Tensions in Intellectual Integration*, Helsinki (Finland); Annual conference of the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (STOREP) Pollenzo (Italy).

2006 Annual conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Istanbul (Turkey); Conference ‘The Social Sciences and Democracy’ Gent (Belgium); IX Summer School on Philosophy and Economics ‘New Philosophy of the Social Sciences’, San Sebastian (Spain).

2005 Seminar of the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics*, Rotterdam (The Netherlands); Conference on ‘Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Understanding’, Amsterdam (The Netherlands); Annual conference of the Allied Social Science Association (ASSA)- International Network for Economic Method session on ‘Models and Explanation’ Philadelphia, PA.

2004 Annual conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Crete (Greece); Conference of the International Network for Economic Method (INEM), Amsterdam (The Netherlands); Colloquium on ‘Economic Imperialism’, Lappenraanta* (Finland).

2003 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Oviedo (Spain); Workshop on ‘Realism and Economic Geography’, Rotterdam (The Netherlands).

2002 Annual conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), Aix-en-Provence (France).

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS

EUR-Fellowship, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, January 2006-December 2009

Academy of Finland grant, within a collective project "Economics imperialism" (Ref. 203500), January 2004-October 2004

Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics fellowship for PhD students, January 2002-December 2003

Eugenio Benedetti Fellowship for Post-graduate studies, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Padua, June 2000-December 2001

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Program Committees: International Network for Economic Method Conference 2010, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Neuroeconomics: hype or hope? Erasmus University of Rotterdam (November 2008); What if? So what! Interdisciplinary approaches to counterfactual reasoning, Erasmus University of Rotterdam (December 2007)

Editorial Board: Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics

Advisory Board: Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science, edited by Ian Jarvie and Jesus Zamora Bonilla, Sage Publications

Referee: Journal of Economic Methodology, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Palgrave Mc-Millan, Routledge, Synthese, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE 

Co-organizer of Neuroeconomics: hype or hope? conference, Erasmus University of Rotterdam (November 2008); What if? So what! Interdisciplinary approaches to counterfactual reasoning conference, Erasmus University of Rotterdam (December 2007); Realism and Economic Geography workshop, Erasmus University Rotterdam (July 2003).

Local organizing committee of The Methodology of Positive Economics conference, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2003; Third Conference on Collective Intentionality conference, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2002