The aim of the Multidisciplinary Research Workshops (MRW) is to enhance multidisciplinary understanding between the disciplines present in the programme through participative workshops showing either how some new advances in a particular discipline can be of interest to other social sciences of humanities, or how different disciplines contribute to a better understanding of relevant issue.
The workshops are organized by MWP in the 1st term and each Academic Practice Group will be responsible for one MRW during the 2nd and 3rd term. The sessions are based on input from an outside speaker, fellow or EUI faculty.
These normally two-hour sessions are open to the EUI community.
MRWs are hold on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 11.00-13.00, Villa la Fonte, Conference Room
Next Multidisciplinary Research Workshop:
Wednesday 23 May 2012, 10.00-12.15
"The Evolution of Social Norms"
Speakers:
Ken Binmore , ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution, University College London
Giulia Andrighetto , Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rome
How are humans able to cooperate and how has their ability to do so evolved over time?
There is a growing inter-disciplinary literature that attempts to understand the foundations of human cooperation and the ways in which these have been shaped by evolutionary processes.
This workshop seeks to provide an introduction to this rich field of inter-disciplinary research by relying on lectures by two scholars that approach it from quite different angles.
Giulia Andrighetto is a philosopher working at the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies at the Italian National Research Council in Rome and was a Max Weber Fellow in 2010-2011. She specializes in the philosophy of mind, social and cognitive psychology and cultural evolution. Using agent based social simulations she has concentrated her research efforts on understanding how social norms and conventions work and on how they emerge. She will be talking to us on how actually talking about norms may lead us to be more compliant.
Kenneth Binmore Professor emeritus of the University of London is a mathematician and economist specialized in game theory and in experimental economics. Throughout his very prolific career Binmore has made seminal contributions to a variety of areas, including auction theory (he designed the UK' s 3G telecommunications auctions), bargaining theory and political and moral philosophy. He is one of the founding members of the University College based interdisciplinary center ELSE (Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution). He will talk to us about the evolution of fairness norms.
Programme (pdf)
Two papers serve as background reading, to receive them please contact Tomas.Rodriguez@eui.eu .
All welcome to attend - for logistical purposes, please register with Susan.Garvin@eui.eu
Organizers:
Tomás Rodriguez Barraquer , Agustin Casas , Yane Svetiev , Justin Valasek , Max Weber Fellows