XI Summer School on Economics and Philosophy

Social Norms

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 and Jesús Zamora (UNED)

Presentation

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.

Preliminary list of 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), Diego Gambetta (Oxford), Herbert Gintis (UMass), Russell Hardin (NYU), Shaun Nichols (U. Arizona), Dan Sperber (CNRS), Edna Ullmann-Margalit (Jerusalem)

Call for papers

We encourage submission of papers that cover one or more of the above areas. The scientific committe will consider a number of submissions by young scholars at graduate or postgraduate level. The Foundation will cover the registration fees and accomodation expenses of the authors. Please send a 2000 words pdf abstract to David Teira (dteira [@] fsof.uned.es) before Jan 31st 2008. A decision will be made by March 15th.

Scientific committee

Cristina Bicchieri, Jason Alexander, Jason Dana, Diego Gambetta.

Official web site

Please check the summer school's official web site for updates and further details.