HOW TO EXPLAIN HUMAN ACTION?
Workshop on Questions from Riccardo Viale’s Work
Program:
9:30 AM Welcome of Fabio Finotti
(Director IIC, NYC)
9:45 AM Opening of Giuliano Amato
(Former Prime Minister, Italy)
10 AM Embodied Cognition, Bounded Rationality, and Cognitive Institutions.
Shaun Gallagher (Memphis)
10:45 AM How to Extend Behavioral Economics to Deal with Uncertainty?
Gerd Gigerenzer (Max Planck Institute, Berlin)
11:30 AM Contrasting Behavioral Economics and Cognitive Economics.
Hersh Shefrin (Santa Clara)
12:45 AM Bounded Rationality and Entrepreneurial Behavior.
Saras Sarasvathy (Virginia)
1 PM Lunch break
3 PM Behavioral City.
Benedetto Camerana (Camerana & Partners)
3:45 PM Social Norms Between Micro and Macro.
Cristina Bicchieri (UPenn)
4:30 PM Is Behavioral Paternalism Justified?
Mario Rizzo (NYU)
5:15 PM General Discussion
5:45 PM Comments by
Riccardo Viale
(Herbert Simon Society and BIB-Ciseps, Milano-Bicocca)
6:15 PM Conclusions by
Gerd Gigerenzer
(Max Planck Institute, Berlin)
6:30 PM Cocktail
In collaboration with Herbert Simon Society
Riccardo Viale’s work has focused on the explanation of human action. The answer to this question corresponds to the foundation of the social sciences. Economics has responded with an a priori and instrumentalist solution. Sociology with the denial of the problem and its polarization on an abstract collective dimension. Viale connects himself to the philosophical tradition of John Stuart Mill, and develops the model of bounded rationality of Herbert Simon, declined in an ecological sense, inserting it into the current approach of embodied cognition.
Riccardo Viale (MD) was trained initially in psychiatry and neuroscience and afterward in cognitive science and epistemology. Now he is Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Cognitive Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Milan Bicocca and of Behavioral Economics at LUISS, Rome and President of Behavioral Insights Bicocca.
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