CV

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 : Reflections on Hayek’s Epistemology of Action »/ – PhD Advisor : Jean Petitot (EHESS/École Polytechnique) – Co-Advisor: Enzo Di Nuoscio (Università del Molise/Luiss University, Italy).

–2005 : DEA (French Postgraduate Diploma) in Philosophy, with honors, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France – Advisor : Jean Petitot (EHESS/ École Polytechnique)

–2001 : Laurea vecchio ordinamento (Italian Bachelor/Master degree) in Political Science, First Class Honours, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali – Guido Carli (LUISS), Rome, Italy/ Advisor: Dario Antiseri (LUISS)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Epistemology, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy of Economics, Continental Philosophy and Sociological Theory.

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).

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

-2023: Member of the Scientific Committee for the 2023 Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS), Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands30 August – 1 September 2023.

-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-Present: I am an 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 National Chengchi University in Taipei (Taiwan) is the principal investigator. The project is granted by Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) for the project period 2019-2021 (Grant Number: MOST 108-2410-H-004 -016 -MY2, 2019-2021).

-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), Frontiers in Sociology (frontiersin.org), 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: Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) grant for the project period 2019-2021 (Grant Number: MOST 108-2410-H-004 -016 -MY2, 2019-2021).

–2016:  One Hundred Young Academic Leaders Program of Nankai University Intial Research Found: 300.000 Chinese Yuan Renminbi (45.000 US dollars)

AWARDS

-2017 Tianjin Thousand Talents Program: 500.000 Chinese Yuan Renminbi (73.000 US dollars)

-2015 Nankai One Hundred Young Academic Leaders Program (43.500 US dollars).

-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

-2023 (November) “The Structure of Complexity and the Limits of Collective Intentionality”, A Century of Emergence. Cross- Disciplinary Diffusion and Critical Assessment, conference, University of Palermo (Italy).

-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), National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei (Taiwan)

-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, National Chung Chen University, Chiayi (Taiwan).

-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, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan (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.