Post-Darwinian Societies Seminar

CHAIRE HOOVER Louvain-La-Neuve

Organized by Charles Pence (CEFISES ISP) and Gregory Ponthiere (ETES ISP)

The goal of the Post-Darwinian Societies Seminar is to bring together researchers from various disciplines – including, but not limited to, philosophy, social sciences, economics, history and biology – who all work on evolutionary dynamics and selection effects. Dialogues between different scientific disciplines can contribute to the identification of new epistemological challenges for evolutionary theories, as well as to the emergence of new normative perspectives for the ethical foundation of the Welfare State.

Each seminar is online (via TEAMS) and is scheduled on Thursday 16.30-17.30

Prochainement

29 avril 2024

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar " #14

Santiago LOPEZ CANTOR (AMSE) The Impact of Morality on the Political Support for Public Policies: A Theoretical Analysis Individual attitudes toward the environment are commonly...

18 mars 2024

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #13

Philippe Van Parijs (UCLouvain). Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences In my Oxford DPhil thesis, which became my first book (Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences. An...

04 mars 2024

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #12

How Similar are Natural Selection and Market Competition? By Brian McLoone (Auburn University) Many believe that what Adam Smith said about the improving power of market competition is...

07 décembre 2023

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #11

Social norms evolving By Jack Vromen, EIPE (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Following Lewis’ (1969) seminal account of conventions, several scholars have used game theory to shed light on...

16 novembre 2023

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #10

Robin Philips (UCLouvain) Multidimensional composite indicators of wellbeing: applications in economic history Although economists and social scientists have widely contributed to the...

26 avril 2023

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #9

Estimating Social Preferences and Kantian Morality in Strategic Interactions Boris van Leeuwen (Tilburg University) Theoretical work suggests that a form of Kantian morality has evolutionary...

08 mars 2023

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #8

Epictetusian Rationality and Evolutionary Stability Grégory Ponthière An economic interpretation of Epictetus's precept of 'Taking away aversion from all things not in our power' consists of...

10 janvier 2023

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #7

From Evolutionary Biology to Economics and Back. Parallels and Crossing between Economics and Evolution. Philippe Huneman (CNRS, Université Paris 1).

22 novembre 2022

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #6

Linking Darwinism to Economics via Policy Engineering. Hugh Desmond (University of Antwerp) The economics that is considered “mainstream” receives epithets such as “Keynesian” or “Friedmanite”...

25 octobre 2022

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #5

Game theoretic analysis of childhood vaccination behavior: Nash versus Kant. Philippe De Donder (TSE CNRS) Whether or not to vaccinate one’s child is a decision that a parent may approach in...

24 mars 2022

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #4

"Games, Rules and Cultural Evolution" Alessandro CIGNO (Université de Florence) A species or society’s survival depends as much on its members’ ability to cooperate among themselves, as...

10 mars 2022

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #3

"What generalizing Darwinism can mean - The case of evolutionary economics" Thomas REYDON (University of Hannover) The application of evolutionary concepts and evolutionary models in areas...

24 février 2022

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #2

"‘Darwinism’ in Victorian England: a contested category” fit? Piers HALE (University of Oklahoma) Although terms like Darwinism and Social Darwinism have been used as historical categories...

10 février 2022

"Post Darwinian Societies Seminar" #1

"Homo Moralis, a model of moral behavior grounded on evolutionary arguments". Ingela ALGER (TSE IAST) et Jean-François LASLIER (PSE) “Survival of the fittest” is often...