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Research Team

Till Grüne-Yanoff
till.grune@helsinki.fi
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Modelling practices in the social sciences; The motivational component of decision theory; The relation between positive and normative research in economics; Philosophical foundations of game theory; Agent-based simulations.

Tarja Knuuttila
tarja.knuuttila@helsinki.fi
Models and mechanisms in economics and other social sciences; Scientific representation; Role of fictions in science; Neuroeconomics, neural network modelling and cognitive sciences; Modelling as a mode of interaction between different disciplines; Science and technology studies; Social semiotics

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Pekka Mäkelä
pekka.a.makela@helsinki.fi
Philosophy of the social sciences; Social action; Social ontology; Moral aspects of social action

Uskali Mäki
uskali.maki@helsinki.fi
Explanatory unification within and across disciplinary boundaries; Modes of interaction between economics and its neighbours; Explanatory pluralism; Economic models and their truth; Economic philosophy of science; Local scientific realism

Samuli Pöyhönen
samuli.poyhonen@helsinki.fi
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Kinds, concepts and classification; Relations between the social sciences and neuro- & cognitive sciences

Diego Rios
diego.martin.rios@gmail.com
General Issues in Philosophy of Science. Reductionism and Reductive Explanation, Unification, Mechanisms. The Explanatory Role of Beliefs. Externalism, Indexicality and Reference-Fixation. Evolutionary Social Sciences. Models of Gene-Culture Interaction.

Research Associates

N. Emrah Aydinonat
aydinonat@gmail.com
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Models and explanation in economics: invisible-hand explanations; models of emergence of institutions, norms and macro-social phenomena

John Davis
Marquette University; University of Amsterdam
john.davis@marquette.edu
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Methodology and philosophy of economics; Recent history  of economics; The individual in economics; Agent identity in economics

Francesco Guala
University of Exeter
F.Guala@exeter.ac.uk
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Rational choice theory; Experimental economics; Empirical ontology

D. Wade Hands
University of Puget Sound
hands@ups.edu
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Economic methodology; Philosophy of social science; Sociology of Scientific knowledge; History and philosophy of demand theory and general equilibrium theory

Daniel Hausman
University of Wisconsin at Madison
dhausman@wisc.edu
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Economic methodology; Rationality; Causality; Economics and ethics; Health care ethics; Health measurement

Frank Hindriks
University of Groningen
F.A.Hindriks@rug.nl
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Economic methodology; Institutions; Integration; Intertheoretic relations; Scientific realism; Social Ontology; Tractability assumptions

Geoff Hodgson
University of Hertfordshire
g.m.hodgson@herts.ac.uk
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Kyu Sang Lee
kyuslee@gmail.com
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History and philosophy of experimental market economics; Historical and philosophical issues in the relationship between evolutionary psychology and economics; Historical and philosophical issues in the rise of neuroeconomics; Social mechanisms (in social theory) and mechanism design theory (in economics)

Caterina Marchionni
Erasmus University of Rotterdam
marchionni@fwb.eur.nl
Intertheoretic and interdisciplinary relations; Explanation; Geographical economics; Theory of networks

Philip Mirowski
University of Notre Dame
Philip.E.Mirowski.1@nd.edu
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Päivi Oinas
Turku School of Economics
Paivi.oinas@tse.fi
Explanatory structures in economic geography; Economic geography in its relations to neighbouring disciplines; Theory of the firm across disciplines

Kristina Rolin
Helsinki School of Economics
Kristina.Rolin@hse.fi
Philosophy of science with an emphasis on social epistemology and feminist epistemology; Philosophy of social science, especially philosophy of organizational theory.
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Antti Saaristo
antti.saaristo@helsinki.fi
Philosophy of the social sciences; Intentional action and its explanation; Individualism; Holism; Collective intentionality; Social ontology

Matti Sintonen
University of Helsinki
matti.sintonen@helsinki.fi
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Philosophy of science; Philosophy of the social sciences; Explanation and discovery; Epistemology; Philosophy of language

Robert Sugden
University of East Anglia, Norwich
r.sugden@uea.ac.uk
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Welfare economics; Social choice; Choice under uncertainty; Foundations of decision and game theory; Methodology of economics; Evolution of social conventions

Raimo Tuomela
University of Helsinki
tuomela@cc.helsinki.fi
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Philosophy of the social sciences, especially the general theory of social action. Secondary fields of research: Philosophical foundations of cognitive science; General philosophy of science; Metaphysics

Adrian Walsh
University of New England, Australia
awalsh@une.edu.au
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Political Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Economics, Medieval Economic Theory; The limits of the market, Social justice, The nature of work, The morality of genetic engineering, New reproductive technologies, The commercialisation of natural resources.

Jack Vromen
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
vromen@fwb.eur.nl
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Evolution and economics; Economic methodology; Philosophical and  conceptual issues in evolutionary and institutional economics

Jesus Zamora Bonilla
Universidad Nacional de Education a Distancia (UNED), Madrid
jpzb@fsof.uned.es
Application of economic models to the philosophy of science; Philosophy of social sciences, and in particular of economics; Realism and rationality in science