XI Summer School on Economics and Philosophy (2008)

Social Norms

A summer school organized by the University of the Basque Country and the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation.
San Sebastián, July 14-17 (2008)

Director: Cristina Bicchieri (UPenn)

Coordinators: Alfonso Dubois (UPV/EHU), David Teira & Jesús Zamora(UNED)

Program (PDF) | Abstracts: Lectures | Contributed papers + Posters

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1. Aims and scope:

Since 1998 the Urrutia Elejalde has annually organized a Summer School on frontier topics between philosophy, economics and other social sciences, bringing together scholars from all these fields to explore them. The aim of this year Summer School is to introduce participants to the vast research that is taking place in the area of social norms. From philosophy and psychology to evolutionary game theory and experimental economics, recent work on social norms is shedding light on why and under what circumstances people engage in pro-social behavior, and how norms may emerge, stabilize or decay.

2. Speakers

Jason Alexander (LSE), Daniel Andler (Paris IV-ENS), Cristina Bicchieri (UPenn), Jordi Brandts (UAB), Pablo Brañas (Ugr), Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC- CNR), Jason Dana (UPenn), Jon Elster (Columbia+College de France), Herbert Gintis (Santa Fe Institute), Francesco Guala (Exeter), Dan Sperber (CNRS), Edna Ullmann-Margalit (The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem)

3. Contributed papers by

Ilaria Castelli, Julia Cordero Coma, Brice Corgnet, Giussepe Danese, Benoît Dubreuil, Marco Faillo, Brian Gunia, Donna Harris, Rebekka A. Klein, Erin Krupka, Azi Lev-On, Angela Milano, Ryan Muldoon, Stefania Ottone, Giacomo Sillari, Alessandra Smerili, Christian Traxler, Erte Xiao.