Publications

Books

–Forthcoming: (Editor with Nathalie Bulle, CNRS/Sorbonne University), Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume 1, Palgrave MacMillan, London.

–Forthcoming: (Editor with Nathalie Bulle, CNRS/Sorbonne University), Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume 2, Palgrave MacMillan, London.

–2021: (Editor with Hu Jun, Nankai University) 能动性与社会动力学——经济学哲学与社会科学哲学论文集  Agency and Social Dynamics. Essays in the Philosophy of Economics and the Social Sciences (in Chinese), Nankai University Press.

List of contributors:
Bruce Caldwell (Duke University), Chor-yung Cheung (City University of Hong Kong), Paul Dumouchek (Ritsumeikan University), Danile Little (University of Michigan-Dearborn), Uskali Maki (University of Helsinki), Jean Petitot (Ecole des hautes études en Sciences Sociales), Barry Smith (The State University of New York at Buffalo), Stephen Turner (University of South Florida), Jia Xinantong (Nankai University)

–2018: (Editor with Gérald Bronner, Paris-Diderot University/French Academy of Technologies) The Mystery of Rationality. Mind, Beliefs and the Social Sciences, Springer, Cham

List of contributors:
 Joseph Agassi (Tel Aviv University and York University), Peter Boettke (George Mason University), Alban Bouvier (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS), Enzo Di Nuoscio (UniMol), Paul Dumouchel (Ritsumeikan University), Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis), Herbert Gintis (Santa Fe Institute), Ian Jarvie (York University), Roger Frantz (San Diego University), Daniel Little (University of Michigan-Dearborn), Pierre Livet (Aix-Marseille University), Leslie Marsh (University of British Columbia), Karl-Dieter Opp (Leipzig University and University of Washington ), Emmanuel Picavet (Sorbonne Paris 1 University).

–2018: ポパーの思想における世界３と方法論的個人主義 (Japanese translation of my article “World 3 and Methodological Individualism in Popper’s Thought”), Amazon kindle book published by the Japan Popper Society.

–2015: Cognitive Autonomy and Methodological Individualism: The Interpretative Foundations of Social Life, Springer, Cham – book series “Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics”.

French Translation: Autonomie cognitive et individualisme méthodologique, Éditions Hermann, Paris – book séries « Société et Pensées », accepted for publication.

Journal Special Issues

–2022: Special Issue: Selected Papers from the 2021 Joint Conference of the Asian Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, and the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable. Guest editor (with Chor-yung Cheung, Paul Dumouchel, Reiko Gotoh, Mark Tamthai, Kei Yoshida, Alban Bouvier, Byron Kaldis, Eleonora Montuschi, Julie Zahle, Jesús Zamora-Bonilla, David Henderson, Kareem Khalifa, Mark Risjord, Paul Roth, Deborah Tollefsen, Stephen Turner), Philosophy of the Social Sciences (SAGE), Volume 52 Issue 1-2, January-March 2022.

–2020: Special Issue: Selected Papers from the Asian Conference on the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Nankai University, 1-2 June, 2019. Guest editor with (Chor-yung Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Paul Dumouchel, Ritsumeikan University, Reiko Gotoh, Hitotsubashi University, Mark Tamthai, Payap University, Kei Yoshida, Waseda University), Philosophy of the Social Sciences (SAGE), Volume 50 Issue 3, June 2020.

–2016: Methodological Individualism, Structural Constraints and Social Complexity, Cosmos +Taxis. Studies in Emergent Order and Organization (Simon Fraser University/University of British Columbia), double special issue, Vol. 3 / issues 2+3, 2016 (114 pages).

–2011: Liberalismo e Anarcocapitalismo. La Scuola austriaca di economia (Coedited with Dario Antiseri and Enzo Di Nuoscio), Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine, Rai/Eri – Gennaio/Giugno 1/2 2011, special issue (556 pages)  

Papers

–Forthcoming: “Methodological Individualism and Agent-based Models: A Reply to Manzo, Kincaid and Zahle”, in Nathalie Bulle and Francesco Di Iorio (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume I, Palgrave MacMillan.

–Forthcoming: “Methodological Individualism and Methodological Localism: A Discussion with Daniel Little” (with Daniel Little, University of Michigan and Nathalie Bulle, CNRS/Sorbonne), in Nathalie Bulle e Francesco Di Iorio (eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume II, Palgrave MacMillan, London.

– Forthcoming: “Methodological Individualism and Social Facts: A Discussion with Steven Lukes” (with Steven Lukes, New York University and Nathalie Bulle, CNRS/Sorbonne), in Nathalie Bulle e Francesco Di Iorio (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume II, Palgrave MacMillan, London.

– Forthcoming: “Methodological Individualism and Institutional Individualism: A Discussion with Joseph Agassi” (with Joseph Agassi, York University and Nathalie Bulle, CNRS/Sorbonne), in Nathalie Bulle and Francesco Di Iorio (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume II, Palgrave MacMillan.

– Forthcoming: “Methodological Individualism and Critical Realism: Questions for Margareth Archer” (with Nathalie Bulle, CNRS/Sorbonne), in Nathalie Bulle and Francesco Di Iorio (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume II, Palgrave MacMillan.

– Forthcoming: “Methodologica Individualism and Reductionism” in Nathalie Bulle and Francesco Di Iorio (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume II, Palgrave MacMillan.

– Forthcoming: “Introduction” (with Nathalie Bulle, CNRS/Sorbonne University) in Nathalie Bulle and Francesco Di Iorio (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism, Volume I, Palgrave MacMillan.

– Forthcoming: Francesco Di Iorio, Enzo Di Nuoscio (Università del Molise, Luiss Guido-Carli), “Methodological Individualism as an Explanatory Practice: Raymond Boudon and the Implicit Methodology of Tocqueville’s and Durkheim’s Empirical Sociology” in Christian Robitaille (Liverpool Hope University, ed.) Anthem Companion to Raymond Boudon, Anthem Press, London.

– Forthcoming: “The Hermeneutical Foundations of Social Life” in 育才造士——南开“百青”教育随笔, Nankai University Press (book chapter in Chinese).

–2022: “On Situational Analysis and the Explanatory Power of Mechanisms: Analytical Sociology and the Deductive-Nomological Model” (with Enzo Di Nuoscio), Social Science Information, First Published February 25, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/05390184221078737.

–2022: “The Structure of Complexity and the Limits of Collective Intentionality”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, First Published February 15, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931221074294.

–2021: 方法论个体主义、结构限制和社会复杂性 (Methodological Individualism, Structural Constraints and Social Complexity) in Francesco Di Iorio and Hu Jun (Nankai University) 能动性与社会动力学——经济学哲学与社会科学哲学论文集  (Agency and Social Dynamics. Essays in the Philosophy of Economics and the Social Sciences), Nankai University Press (book chapter in Chinese).

– 2021: 引言 (introduction, with Hu Jun, Nankai University) to 能动性与社会动力学——经济学哲学与社会科学哲学论文集  (Agency and Social Dynamics. Essays in the Philosophy of Economics and the Social Sciences), Nankai University Press (book chapter in Chinese).

– 2021: “Analytical sociology and critical realism” (with Francisco León-Medina, University of A Coruña) in Manzo G. (ed.), Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology, Edward Elgar Publishing.

– 2021: “Raimondo Cubeddu, l’ordine sensoriale e il fondamento neurobiologico del soggettivismo e dell’individualismo” in A. Masala, M. Menon, F. Monceri (eds.), La passione della libertà. Saggi in onore di Raimondo Cubeddu, IBL Libri, Milano.

– 2021: Book review of “F.A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics (Routledge, 2020)” by Scott Scheall. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (Routledge), ahead-of-print, pp. 1–2 (https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2021.1936716).

– 2020: “Nominalism, supervenience and methodological individualism”, Politica.eu. Rivista Telematica Interdisciplinare, Onlinefirst, Pagine Nuove October 2020, pp. 30-46.

– 2020:  “Individualisme méthodologique et réductionnisme”, L’Année Sociologique (Presses universitaires de France), 2020/1 (Vol. 70), pp. 97-128.

–2019: “On the Connection Between Agent-Based Simulation and Methodological Individualism” (with Shu-Heng Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan), Social Science Information, May 2019 – OnlineFirst, pp. 1-23.

–2019: “Filosofia della scienza e scienze sociali” (with Enzo Di Nuoscio, University of Molise) in P. Barrotta e E. Montuschi (eds.), La Filosofia della Scienza in Italia, Armando, Roma, 2019, pp. 285-305.

–2018: “Introduction: Rationality as an Enigmatic Concept” (with Gérald Bronner, Paris-Diderot University/French Academy of Technologies) in Gérald Bronner and Francesco Di Iorio The Mystery of Rationality. Mind, Beliefs and the Social Sciences, Springer, Cham, pp. 1-6.

–2018: “Economic Explanation as Translation: Hermeneutics, Fallibilism and Austrian Methodology”, Prospettiva Persona,  n. 103, 2018- 3-26, pp. 37-39.

–2018: “From the Hermeneutics of Mind to the Hermeneutics of Capital”, Storia Libera, n.7, Marzo 2018, pp. 203-209.

– 2017: “The Ant Trap” (Oxford University Press, 2015) by Brian Epstein, Philosophy of the Social Sciences (with Catherine Herfeld, University of Zurich), onLineFirst, DOI: 10.1177/0048393117724757 | First Published August 31, 2017, pp. 1-24.

–2017: Hayek on Mind and Anti-Foundationalism, Politica.eu. Rivista Telematica Interdisciplinare, Dicembre 2017, Anno 3, n.2, pp. 5-12.

–2016: “World 3 and Methodological Individualism in Popper’s Thought”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 2016, vol. 46(4), pp. 352-374 .

–2016: Francesco Di Iorio, “Introduction: Methodological Individualism, Structural Constraints and Social Complexity” in Cosmos +Taxis. Studies in Emergent Order and Organization, double special issue, Vol. 3 / issues 2+3, 2016, pp. 1-8.

–2015: “Hayek and the Hermeneutics of Mind”, Social Science Information, 2015, Vol. 54(2), pp. 177-191.

–2014: “Rethinking Boudon’s Cognitive Rationality in the Light of Mises’ Apriorism and Gadamer’s Hermeneutics” (coauthored with Enzo Di Nuoscio), Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines, ISSN (Online) 2153-1552, ISSN (Print) 2194-5799, DOI: 10.1515/jeeh-2014-0010, December 2014, pp. 1-14.

–2013: “Cognitive Autonomy and Epistemology of Action in Hayek’s and Merleau-Ponty’s Thought”  in R. Frantz and R. Leeson (eds.) Hayek and Behavioral Economics (with a foreword by Vernon Smith, Nobel Economics Prize Winner), Palgrave Macmillan 2013 (refereed book chapter), pp. 149-176.

–2013: “Maurice Merleau-Ponty: dalla neuro-fenomenologia alla critica dell’olismo sociologico” in D. Antiseri (Ed.), La responsabilità del filosofo. Studi in onore di Massimo Baldini, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2013, pp. 44-51.

–2013: (Invited Book Foreword) “Dalla filosofia alla scienza, e ritorno: l’analisi della conoscenza tra epistemologia e scienze cognitive” (with Enzo Di Nuoscio and Gustavo Cevolani), introduction to J-M. Besnier, Teorie della conoscenza, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2013 (Les théories de la connaissance, PUF -Italian translation), pp. 5-14.

–2012: “Mind, Market and Open Society in Hayek’s Thought” in P. Heritier, P.Silvestri (Eds.), Good Government, Governance, Human Complexity. Luigi Einaudi’s Legacy and Contemporary Societies , Leo Olschki, Firenze, 2012 (refereed book chapter), pp. 235-249.

–2012: “Il paradigma enattivo e la sociologia individualistica” in R. De Mucci & Kurt Leube (Eds.), Un austriaco in Italia – An Austrian in Italy. Festschrift in Honour of Dario Antiseri, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2012, pp. 59-84.

–2011: “Hayek and Merleau-Ponty on Mind and Interpretative Sociology” in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Vol. IX, No. 1, 2011, pp. 437-443 (Proceedings of SILFS Conference).

–2011: “Da Kant alla complessità: il “nuovo Illuminismo” di Jean Petitot, in Nuova Civiltà delle macchine, Gennaio/Giugno 1/2 2011, pp. 531-547.

–2011: “Introduzione: Liberalismo e Anarcocapitalismo. La Scuola austriaca di economia” (with Dario Antiseri, Luiss Guido Carli and Enzo Di Nuoscio, Università’ del Molise, Luiss Guido Carli) in Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine, Rai RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana/Eri – Gennaio/Giugno 1/2 2011, pp. 5-8.

–2010:  “The Sensory Order and the Neurophysiological Basics of Methodological Individualism” in William N. Butos (Ed.) The Social Science of Hayek’s the Sensory Order – Advances in Austrian Economics volume 13, Emerald, UK, 2010, pp. 179-209 (refereed book chapter).

–2010:  “Self-Organization of the Mind and Methodological Individualism in Hayek’s Thought” in M. D’Agostino, G. Giorello, F, Laudisa, T. Pievani, C. Sinigaglia (Eds.), Silfs. New Essays in Logic and Philosophy of Science (Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science), London, UK, College Publications, 2010, pp. 389-401 (refereed book chapter).

–2009:  “Hayek’s Connectionist Psychology as a Defense for the Sociology of Good Reasons”, in Mohammed Cherkaoui & Peter Hamilton (Eds.), Raymond Boudon. A life in Sociology. Essays in Honour of Raymond Boudon, 4 volumes, Oxford, UK, The Bardewell Press, 2009, pp. 145-174.

–2008:  “Apriorism and Fallibilism: Mises and Popper on the Explanation of Action and Social Phenomena”, in Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine, anno XXVI, n. 4- 2008, pp. 5-32.

–2008:  “Why Mises’ Apriorism and Popper’s Fallibilism are not Incompatible (I)”, in Nomoi n. 3, 2008. Revista Digital de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas – Fundacion F. A. Hayek (Argentina) y Universidad Francisco Marroquin (Guatemala), pp. 19-29.

–2008:  “Why Mises’ Apriorism and Popper’s Fallibilism are not Incompatible (II)”, in Nomoi n. 4, 2008. Revista Digital de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas – Fundacion F. A. Hayek (Argentina) y Universidad Francisco Marroquin (Guatemala), pp. 16-24.

–2007:  “L’espace poppérien du raisonnement historique: trois critiques contre le dualisme méthodologique de Jean-Claude Passeron” in Nuova Civiltà delle Macchine, n. 2, 2007, pp. 77-94.

–2007:  “Evidence de l’histoire ”, François Hartog, Nuova Civiltà delle macchine, ANNO XXV – N°1 – 2007, pp. 158-159.

–2007:  “Le rite et la raison. Wittgenstein anthropologue”, Philippe De Lara, Nuova Civiltà delle macchine, ANNO XXV – N°2 – 2007, pp. 153-155.

– 2007: “Le métier de sociologue. Préalables épistémologiques” (Cinquième édition), P. Bourdieu, J-C. Chanboredon, J-C. Passeron, in Nuova Civiltà delle macchine, ANNO XXV – N°2 – 2007, pp. 155-156.

–2007:   “Les théories de la connaissance”, J-M Besnier, Nuova Civiltà delle macchine, ANNO XXV – N°2 – 2007, pp. 156-158.

Working Papers

–2017: “Agent-Based Simulation as an Implementation Of Methodological Individualism” (with Shu-Heng Chen, National Chengchi University) (December 7, 2017). The Duke University Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper Series. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3084110

–2013: “Nominalism and Systemic Approach: On the Non-Reductionist Nature of Methodological Individualism,” The Duke University Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper Series/Working Paper No. 2013-07.

–2013:“Hayek’s The Sensory Order and Gadamer’s Phenomenological Hermeneutics”, The Duke University Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper Series/ Working Paper No. 2013-10.

–2013: “Are Hermeneutics and the Austrian Approach Compatible? A Clarifying Analysis”, The Duke University Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper Series/ Working Paper No. 2013-06.

–2006: “Dalla teoria della dispersione della conoscenza alla cibernetica economica: l’auto-organizzazine del mercato secondo F. von Hayek”, Quaderni del CMSS Luiss, Rome, Luiss Edizioni, 2006.

Translation Experience

–2013: P. Nemo & Jean Petitot (eds) Storia del liberalismo in Europa, Rubettino, Soveria Mannelli (book, 1440 pages), translation from French into Italian, with Federico Saviotti and Gustavo Cevolani (French edition : P. Nemo, Jean Petitot (sous la direction de) Histoire du libéralisme en Europe, Paris, Puf, 2006), 2013.

–2003: Raymond Boudon, “La conversione di Coleman alla teoria della scelta razionale: impressioni e congetture” (book chapter), Pierre Demeulenaeire, “Le norme della razionalità” (book chpater), in Enzo Di Nuoscio (Ed.), Filosofia dell’azione e teorie della razionalità, edizioni L.U.I.S.S. Roma, 2002, (translation from French into Italian). French version : Raymond Boudon “La conversion de Coleman à la théorie du choix rationnel : impressions et conjectures”, Revue française de sociologie 2003/2 – Vol. 44 / Pierre Demeulenaeire, “Les normes de la rationalité”.

Works in Progress

– On the Limits of Collective Intentionality (with Paul Dumouchel, University of Quebec), collective book project.

– Complexity and the Micor-Macro Link (with Jean Petitot, EHESS Paris), book project.

– “Rational Choice Model” (with Aki Lehtinen, Nankai University), book chapter in Finnish.

– “Jean Petitot’s Call for A New Enlightenment” in A. Sarti (ed.) Festschrift in Honor of Jean Petitot, Springer, book chapter.