The Chair wishes a warm welcome to its new research assistants coming from different fields of the social sciences and humanities. Guillaume Bolduc, master's student in Education, will be working on how the teaching of critical thinking can be improved through web tools. Cédrik Cormier, master's student in Philosophy at Université de Sherbrooke, will be working on […] Read more
Microfiches reveals a first card of the forthcoming collection on economic concepts. Texts: François Claveau, Pierre-Olivier Tremblay and Peter Dietsch. Illustration: Pascaline Lefebvre. Every Wednesday, it's Mercrofiches on Facebook! Read more
The Chair is recruiting. Deadline for application is June 1st 2016. Please see the French version of the website for details. Read more
July 11th, 2016 July 13th, 2016
San Sebastian, Spain
The Summer Schools aim to bring together graduate students with scholars from economics, philosophy and neighbouring disciplines in order to exchange ideas, build a community and help to further establish ‘economics and philosophy’ as an independent and diverse research field consisting of economic methodology, history of economic thought, rational choice theory, ethical aspects of economics, […] Read more
May 26th, 2016 May 28th, 2016
Le CRÉ, Université de Montréal
As is well known, we disagree about all sorts of things, from factual matters to normative matters, that is, about what we shall or should do. But if disagreements are all too familiar, their nature and significance are far from well understood. This conference aims to investigate the various aspects of disagreement, by proposing an […] Read more
June 20th, 2016 • 8h30 10h00
Duke University
A session at the History of Economics Society 2016 Conference. Session abstract: Network analysis is increasingly used by historians of science. This trend might be explained by three considerations. First, sciences are networks : networks of ideas, networks of individuals, networks of publications, networks of institutions. Second, data on these networks are more easily accessible today […] Read more
May 10th, 2016 • 12:15 13:45
Salle 309, 2910 Boulevard Edouard-Montpetit Montréal, QC, H3T 1J7, Canada
Le CRÉ est heureux d’accueillir Hélène Landemore (Yale University), qui nous offrira une présentation intitulée « Rousseau’s Mistake: Representation and the Myth of Direct Democracy ». Abstract For Rousseau, democracy was direct or it wasn’t. As he famously put it, “the moment a people allows itself to be represented, it is no long free: it no longer exists. […] Read more
May 11th, 2016 • 9:30 17:30
UQAM, Pavillon J.-A.-DeSève (DS) – DS-2505
This content is not available in the selected language. Responsables François CLAVEAU (Université de Sherbrooke), Frédéric BOUCHARD (Université de Montréal) Description Nous sommes individuellement et collectivement dépendants d’une grande variété d’experts. Comme individus ou groupes réputés pour en connaître plus que le profane sur un domaine, ils nous servent de témoins privilégiés dans notre tentative […] Read more
François receives a three-year research grant for his project Justification by Evidence Amalgamation in the Social Sciences: Reliability Conditions. Read more
April 6th, 2016 • 11:45 12:45
Université de Sherbrooke, Locaux A1-228 et L1-2635
This content is not available in the selected language. Bengson, John, Marc A., Moffet, et Jennifer C. Wright. 2009. « The Folk on Knowing How », Philosophical Studies 142 (3) :387–401. Read more
