1st Edition
Neuroeconomics: Hype or Hope?
1. Introduction Caterina Marchionni, University of Helsinki, Finland and Jack Vromen, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2. When economics meet neuroscience: Hype and hope Uskali Mäki, University of Helsinki, Finland
3. The disunity of neuroeconomics: a methodological approach Roberto Fumagalli, London School of Economics, UK
4. Inductive modeling using causal studies in neuroeconomics: brains on drugs Moana Vercoe and Paul J. Zak, Claremont Graduate University, USA
5. The philosopher in the scanner (or: How can neuroscience contribute to social ontology?) Francesco Guala, University of Milan, Italy and Tim Hodgson, University of Exeter, UK
6. Why neuroeconomics is relevant for economics, despite different questions, abstractions and all that Emarh Aydinonat, Ankara University, Turkey
7. Where economics and neuroscience might meet Jack Vromen, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands
8. The methodologies of neuroeconomics Glenn Harrison, Georgia State University, USA and Don Ross, University of Cape Town, South Africa
9. Neuroeconomics: a radical replacement of economics? Michiru Nagatsu, University of Tartu, Estonia
10. Do neurobiological data help us to understand economic decisions better? Alessandro Antonietti, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy
11. Explanatory relevance across disciplinary boundaries – the case of neuroeconomics Jaakko Kuorikoski and Petri Ylikoski, University of Helsinki, Finland
Biography
Caterina Marchionni is researcher at TINT (Trends and Tensions in Intellectual Integration), Department of Social and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She works on the philosophy of economics and philosophy of the social sciences, in particular on modeling, explanation and interdisciplinarity. She is book review editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology.
Jack Vromen is professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Erasmus University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is also academic director of EIPE (Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics) and Chair of the Executive Board of INEM (International Network for Economic Methodology). Since his Ph.D research on Economic Evolution (1995) he is hooked on theoretical and meta-theoretical issues in Economics and Evolution. He has also recently developed research interests in Neuroeconomics, social mechanisms and booming ‘Economics Made Fun’ genre.
