Methodological Individualism and Contemporary Social Sciences – International Conference organized by Nathalie Bulle Thursday and Friday, 6 & 7 July 2023 at Sorbonne University
1, rue Victor Cousin – Paris
Thursday, July 6, Richelieu amphitheatre
9h30-12h30
MI: Foundations
Session chairman : Michel Dubois
- Listen to the Conference Introduction by Nathalie Bulle
- Read the text of the Conference Introduction
Wolf Feuerhahn (CNRS/Centre Alexandre Koyré, France)
- Listen to his presentation : « Max Weber and Understanding Explanation »
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Christian Robitaille (Liverpool Hope University, U.K.)
- Listen to his presentation : « 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)
- Listen to his presentation : « Ordinary Rationality Theory (ORT) According to Raymond Boudon »
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Nathalie Bulle (CNRS/Sorbonne University, France)
- Listen to her presentation : « Methodological Individualism as Holism of the Parts »
- Read the text of the presentation
14h-18h
MI within Social Science Research
Session chairman : Ricardo Viale
Erhard Friedberg (Sciences Po University, Emeritus, Austria/France)
- Listen to his presentation : « From bureaucracy to organized action: Methodological individualism and the study of organizations »
Renaud Fillieule (Lille University/CNRS, France)
- Listen to his presentation : « Methodological individualism/sociology of knowledge/cognitive sociology »
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Pierre Demeulenaere (Sorbonne University, France)
- Listen to his presentation : « Methodological Individualism and Collective Representations »
Karl-Dieter Opp (Leipzig University/University of Washington, Emeritus, Germany/USA)
- Listen to his presentation : « MI and Micro-Macro Modeling »
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Salvatore Abbruzzese (Trento University, Italy)
- Listen to his presentation : « Applying Methodological Individualism in the Analysis of Religious Phenomena »
- Read the text of the presentation (English and French version)
Emmanuel Picavet (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France)
- Listen to his presentation : « Individualistic models in collective norm-based regulation: the positive, normative and hermeneutic dimensions »
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Friday, July 7, Cauchy amphitheatre
9h30-12h30
Controversial Issues about MI
Session chairman : Pierre Demeulenaere
Ieva Zake (Millersville University, US)
- Listen to her presentation : « Holistic Bias in Sociology: Contemporary Trends »
Alban Bouvier (Institut Jean Nicod)
- Listen to his presentation : « Methodological Individualism and Contemporary Analytic philosophy »
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Olivier Favereau (Paris Nanterre University, France)
- Listen to his presentation : « Economics: A Methodological Individualism in Search of its Own Incompleteness »
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Riccardo Viale (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
- Listen to his presentation : « Explaining Social Action by Embodied Cognition: From Methodological Cognitivism to Embodied Cognitive Individualism »
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