TINT’s director Uskali Mäki will give a talk at the symposium hosted by Stanford Graduate School of Business titled “Homo economicus, Evolving”, taking place at 9:00 a.m. PT on Friday, November 17, 2023. The event will be streamed. More information and registration for the event
TINT’s Säde Hormio and Luis Mireles-Flores receive Academy of Finland research fellow funding in the 2022 funding call. Hormio’s project title is “The role of knowledge in collective responsibility for systemic harms” and Mireles-Flores’ “Causality, empirical economics, and the economy: New perspectives on causal inference for policy purposes”. The funding was granted by the Research Council for Culture and Society.
A project on pseudoscience in work/employment led by Inkeri Koskinen has been funded by the Aaltonen Foundation. The three-year project begins in January in Helsinki and in Tampere. The team includes Ilmari Hirvonen working in the project as a post-doc, and Kaisa Luoma as a doctoral researcher. Päivi Seppälä and Marko Forsell are also members of the research team.
TINT received funding from the Finnish Cultural Foundation for its Argumenta project that deals with the serviceability of economics to society in response to current and future crises and challenges. The project brings together an interdisciplinary group of experts, and will organise a range of public events. The project is led by N.E. Aydinonat.
The seminar programme for autumn 2022 is here, with international experts giving talks on their recent research as well as upcoming and published papers. This semester the seminar will be organised in hybrid format, with the possibility of in-person meetings as well as keeping the option to join via Zoom.
TINT’s Inkeri Koskinen has been granted five-year funding as Academy Research Fellow by The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Culture and Society.
The new Perspectives on Science seminar programme for 2022 has been published, with international experts giving talks on a bi-weekly basis online via Zoom. Everyone is welcome to join! See the seminar page to sign up.
TINT hosts three visiting researchers this autumn: Jane Gatley (Society of Applied Philosophy) visits for September. She specializes in philosophy of education.
Malvina Ongaro (Università del Piemonte Orientale) visits from October to November. Her interests are in decision theory and the topic of uncertainty.
Aaro Hazak (TalTech) will be visiting from October to January. He is Professor of Institutional Economics at his home university.
A four year research project titled has been awarded funding by Academy of Finland. The project is titled Economics as serviceable social knowledge (ESSK): Philosophical investigations on the policy relevance of economics in post-pandemic society. It is headed by Uskali Mäki and involves TINT members Caterina Marchionni, Emrah Aydinonat, and Luis Mireles-Flores. You can read more about the project here and here.
An article by Tuomas Vesterinen titled Identifying the Explanatory Domain of the Looping Effect: Congruent and Incongruent Feedback Mechanisms of Interactive Kinds is now published here. The article was selected as the winner of the 2020 essay competition of the International Social Ontology Society (ISOS). As the winner, Tuomas was invited as a keynote speaker to the Social Ontology 2020 conference.
The new Perspectives on Science seminar programme for 2021 has been published: a line up of international researchers and topical research will be presented during Spring. Due to the ongoing situation, the seminars continue to be organised online via Zoom. Everyone is welcome to join! See the seminar page to sign up.
TINT researcher Tuukka Kaidesoja has been awarded the three year research grant from the Kone Foundation for the research project titled “Cognition in social interaction – Toward mechanistic integration of the cognitive and social sciences”. Matti Sarkia and Ronny Puustinen will be working in this project.
Perspectives on science seminar 29.4.2024 Kármen Kovács (University of Pécs): “Is early novelty switching beneficial for consumers? The impact of impatience on the consumer utility derived from innovation from a behavioural economic perspective”
Perspectives on science seminar 8.4.2024 Charlie Kurth (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies; Western Michigan University): “What is the Place of Emotion AI in Moral Education?”
Perspectives on science seminar 11.3.2024 Sam White (University of Helsinki): “Rabbits, Ducks, and Conceptual Problems in the Environmental History of Late Antiquity.”
Perspectives on science seminar 12.2.2024 María Jiménez-Buedo (UNED): “Explanation and generality in Analytical Sociology: what is a catalogue of mechanisms?” (w/ Saúl Pérez-González, Valencia)
Perspectives on science seminar 15.1.2024 Sofia Blanco Sequeiros (University of Helsinki): “Explaining evidential discordance”
20-22 June 2023 Institutional Epistemology Workshop Invited speakers include Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan), Daniel Steel (The University of British Columbia) and Alison Wylie (The University of British Columbia) The workshop takes place in Helsinki More information
28 April, 2023 Panel discussion: Can economics save the world? An event held by the ReSES Argumenta project. The panel discussion is chaired by Magdalena Małecka, and features a opening speech by Erik Angner, and panelists Outi Haanperä, Minna Ylikännö, and Sixten Korkman. More information
8 February, 2023 Panel discussion: Are economists up for the challenges of the day? An event held by the ReSES Argumenta project. The panel discussion is chaired by Uskali Mäki, and features a keynote by Wendy Carlin, and panelists Riina Bhatia, Eeva Hellström, Mika Pantzar and Roope Uusitalo. More information
8-9 December, 2022 Nordic Network for the Science of Science Workshop 2: Mixed methods in the science of science Keynote speakers include Valentina Tartari (Copenhagen Business School), James Evans (University of Chicago), Vasso Kindi (University of Athens) and others. Organized by Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS). The team includes Samuli Reijula (TINT / Helsinki University) More information
