Here is the Spring 2007 Program for Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics Seminars:
Time Mondays 16:00 – 18.00 Place Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Woudestein campus, Room H5-32 (unless otherwise indicated)
5 February
Caroline Gerschlager (
Vienna)
“Self-Deception in Adam Smith”
Comments: Mark Blaug (UvA, EIPE)
19 February
Irene van Staveren (
Nijmegen, ISS The Hague)
“The ethics of efficiency”
Comments: Bert van der Ven (
Tilburg)
5 March
Maurice Lagueux (
Montreal)
“Are we witnessing a “revolution” in methodology of economics?”
Comments: Menno Rol (Groningen)
19 March
Frans van Winden (UvA)“Affective public choice”Comments: Barbara Krug (EUR)
2 April
Huib Looren de Jong (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)“Mindreading and Mirror Neurons: Exploring Reduction” (joint author Maurice Schouten)Comments: Marc Slors (
Nijmegen)
16 April
Simon Blackburn (
Cambridge)
"Overcoming the War of All Against All"
Comments: To be arranged
7 May
Jeanne Peijnenburg (
Groningen)“Achilles, the Tortoise and Zeno balls: Ancient and modern paradoxes” (joint author David Atkinson)Comments: Tim de Mey (EUR)
21 May
Margaret Schabas (British
Colombia)
“More Like Apes than Angels: Natural Historical Modes of Thinking in the Political Economy of David Hume and Adam Smith”
Comments: Bert Mosselmans (Middelburg)
4 June
Roger Backhouse (
Birmingham)
Title & comments: To be arranged
