Prof. Dr. Catherine Herfeld

​Forthcoming  |  Model Transfer in Science
in Tarja Knuuttila, Natalia Carrillo, and Rami Koskinen (eds.) (forthcoming): The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Scientific Modeling, Routledge.

Forthcoming  |  How Academic Opinion Leaders Shape Scientific Ideas: An Acknowledgement Analysis (with Malte Doehne),
Scientometrics

Forthcoming  |  The Role of Narratives in Transferring Rational Choice Models into Political Science (with Alexandra Quack)
History of Political Economy,
(part of the Special Issue on Narratives in the History of Economics, guest-edited by Mary Morgan and Tom Stapleford)

2023  |  Rational Choice Explanations in Political Science (with Johannes Marx)
in Harold Kincaid and Jeroen van Bouwel (Eds.): Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press

2023  |  Progress in Economics (with Marcel Boumans)
in Yafeng Shan (ed.): New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress, Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science, New York and London: Routledge.

2023  |  Why Do Female Philosophy Students Drop Out of Philosophy? Some Evidence from the Classroom at the Bachelor’s Level (with Kathrin von Allmen and Jan Müller)
Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy (Penultimate version)

2022  |  Revisiting the Criticisms of Rational Choice Theories
Philosophy Compass, 17 (1), e12774; https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/phc3.12774

2021  |  Thick Concepts in Economics: The Case of Becker and Murphy’s Theory of Rational Addiction (with Charles Djordjevic)
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 51 (4), 371–399, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00483931211008541

​2020  |  Understanding the Rationality Principle in Economics as a Functional A Priori Principle
​Synthese, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02730-z

2020  |  Introduction to the Special Issue: First Principles in Science: Their Status and Justification (with Milena Ivanova)
​Synthese, 198, 3297–3308, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02801-1

2020  |  Spielarten der Rational Choice Theorie
in Andreas Tutic (Ed.): Rational Choice, Berlin: De Gruyter, 59–86, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110673616-003

2020  |  The Diversity of Rational Choice Theory: A Review Note
TOPOI - An International Review of Philosophy, 39, 329–347 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-018-9588-7
(part of the Special Issue entitled: New Trends in Rational Choice Theory, edited by Cédric Paternotte)

2019  |  Knowledge Transfer and Its Contexts: Editorial (with Chiara Lisciandra)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 77, 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2019.06.002
​(part of the Special Issue on Knowledge Transfer and Its Contexts)

2019  |  What We Learn and Do Not Learn from Ivan Moscati’s Historical Account of Utility Measurement
Oeconomia - History, Methodology, Philosophy, 9 (1), 93-108, https://doi.org/10.4000/oeconomia.5083
(part of the Symposium on Ivan Moscati's: Measuring Utility: From the Marginalist Revolution to Behavioral Economics, Oxford University Press)

2019  |  New Scope, New Sources, New Methods? An Essay of Contemporary Scholarship in History of Economic Thought Journals, 2016-2017 (with Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and Erich Pinzon Fuchs)
​History of Economic Ideas, XXVII (2), 121-161, https://doi.org/10.19272/201906102005

2019  |  Imagination Rather Than Observation in Econometrics: Ragnar Frisch's Hypothetical Experiments as Thought Experiments
HOPOS - The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 9 (1), 35-74, https://doi.org/10.1086/700197​

2019  |  The Diffusion of Scientific Innovations: A Role Typology (with Malte Doehne)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science: Part A, 77, 64-80, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.12.001
(part of the Special Issue on Knowledge Transfer and Its Contexts​)

2018  |  Five Reasons for the Use of Network Analysis in History of Economics (with Malte Doehne)
Journal of Economic Methodology, 25 (4), 311-328, https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2018.1529172
(part of the Special Issue entitled: Not Everything that can be Counted Counts: Historiographic Reflections on Quantifying Economics, edited by José Edwards, Yann Giraud, Christophe Schinckus)

2018  |  The Diffusion of Scientific Innovations: Arguments for an Integrated Approach (with Malte Doehne)
Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0462

2018  |  Social Network Analysis: A Complementary Method of Discovery for the History of Economics (with François Claveau)
in E. Roy Weintraub and Till Düppe (Eds.): A Contemporary Historiography of Economics, Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315169194-6

2018  |  Explaining Patterns, Not Details: Reevaluating Rational Choice Models in Light of Their Explananda
​Journal of Economic Methodology, 25 (2), 179-209, https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2018.1427882

2018  |  From Theories of Human Behavior to Rules of Rational Choice: Tracing a Normative Turn at the Cowles Commission, 1943-1954
History of Political Economy, 50 (1), 1-48, https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2017.1385984

2018  |  Network Analysis in the History of Economics (with François Claveau)
History of Political Economy, 50 (3), 597-603, https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-7023542

2017  |  Between Mathematical Formalism, Normative Choice Rules, and the Behavioural Sciences: The Emergence of Rational Choice Theories in the late 1940s and early 1950s
European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, 24 (6), 1277-1317. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2017.1385984

2017  |  Philosophie der Politikwissenschaft
in Simon Lohse and Thomas Reydon (Eds.): Grundriss Wissenschaftsphilosophie: Die Philosophie der Einzelwissenschaften, Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 615-650, https://doi.org/10.28937/978-3-7873-2987-8

2013  |  The Importance of Commitment for Morality: How Frankfurt Can Enrich Economic Models (with Katrien Schaubroeck)
in Bert Musschenga and Anton van Harskamp (Eds.): What Makes Us Moral: On the Capacities and Conditions for Being Moral, Springer Publishers, 51-72, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6343-2_4

2009  |  The Motive of Commitment and Its Implications for Rational Choice Theory
Analyse & Kritik 31 (2), pp. 291-317, http://www.analyse-und-kritik.net/Dateien/56c1ae6114223_ak_herfeld_2009.pdf

2009  |  How Good are the Economists’ Explanations of Cooperation?
Conference Proceedings, European Consortium for Political Research Lisbon, https://ecpr.eu/Filestore/PaperProposal/2d60c982-1017-412b-a72a-581a0bd37565.pdf

2008  |  ​Role of Normativity for the Explanation of Norm-Conformity
Conference Proceedings, Graduate Conference on Normativity of the University of Amsterdam, https:/www.researchgate.net/publication/254919542

2007  |  How to Cope with New Problems of Collective Action? A Need to Extend Individualism with a Theory of Systems 
McGill Undergraduate Journal of Development Economics, 1 (1), 27-38.

2016  |  The World in Axioms: An Interview with Patrick Suppes
Journal of Economic Methodology, 23 (3), 333-346, https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2016.1189126

2014  |  Rational Choice as a Toolbox for the Economist: An Interview with Itzhak Gilboa
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 7 (2), 116-141, https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v7i2.176

2012  |  The Potentials and Limitations of Rational Choice Theory: An Interview with Gary Becker
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 5 (1), 73-86, https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v5i1.101

2020  |  Review of Ivan Moscati (2019): Measuring Utility: From the Marginal Revolution to Behavioral Economics. Oxford University Press
Economics & Philosophy, 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1017/S026626712000019X

2018  |  Review of Julie Zahle and Finn Collin (Eds.) (2014): Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate: Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science. Springer
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 48 (2), 247-261, https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393117733419

2018  |  Review of Brian Epstein (2015): The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences. Oxford University Press (with Francesco Di Iorio)
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 48 (1), 105-135, https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393117724757

2017  |  Review of Marcel Boumans (2015): Science Outside the Laboratory: Measurement in Field Science and Economics. Oxford University Press
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science - Review of Books, http://www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/marcel-boumans-science-outside-the-laboratory/​

2017  |  Review of William Thomas (2015): Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940–1960. MIT Press
Isis - Journal of the History of Science Society, 108 (1), 227-228,​ https://doi.org/10.1086/690779

2015  |  Review of Paul Erickson, Judy Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm, Michael D. Gordin (2013): How Reason Almost Lost its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality. University of Chicago Press
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 56, 88-90, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2015.03.005

2014  |  Review of Steven Kates (2013): Defending the History of Economic Thought. Edward Elgar Publishing
Journal of Economic Literature, 52 (4), 1162-1165, https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.52.4.1160​

2009  |  Review of Heinrich Stieglitz (2008): Verbindlichkeit: Eine kritisch-realistische Bestimmung der Erkenntnis und des Wesens der Gesellschaft. Duncker & Humblot
ORDO - Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 60 (1), 554-558, https://doi.org/10.1515/ordo-2009-0133​

2008  |  ​Review of Victor Vanberg (Ed.) (2007): Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissen: Aufsätze zur Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftslehre von Friedrich August von Hayek. Mohr Siebeck
ORDO - Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 59 (1), 523-528, https://doi.org/10.1515/ordo-2008-0133

2019  |  Impact Factor Pressures, Scientific Practices, and the Place of Survey Articles in the History of Economics (with with Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and Erich Pinzon Fuchs)
CHOPE Working Paper, 2019-09, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3389850

2015  |  Reflections on the MCMP Summer Schools on Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students (with Milena Ivanova)
Digressions & Impressions, https://digressionsnimpressions.typepad.com/digressionsimpressions/2015/09/reflections-on-the-mcmp-summer-schools-on-mathematical-philosophy-for-female-students.html​

2014  |  Decisions, Groups, and Networks, 8-9 September, 2014. Report on Workshop
The Reasoner, 8 (12), 132-133, https://research.kent.ac.uk/reasoning/wp-content/uploads/sites/1804/2019/06/TheReasoner-812.pdf​

2013  |  The Many Faces of Rational Choice Theory. Dissertation Summary
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 6 (2), 117-121, https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v6i2.143

2013  |  Axiomatic Choice Theory Traveling Between Mathematical Formalism, Normative Choice Rules and Psychological Measurement, 1944-1956
CHOPE Working Paper, 2013-11, 1-67, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2296884

2012  |  The Martin Shubik Papers: From Early Game Theory to the Strategic Analysis of War (with Danilo Da Silva)
The Devil’s Tale: Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, ​https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/the-martin-shubik-papers

March 2024  | Center for Higher Education and Science Studies, CHESS Lecture, University of Zurich, (invited)
TBA

January 2024  |  Institute of Philosophy, Free University Berlin,  (invited)
TBA

September 2023  |  Social Networks Lab, ETH Zürich, (invited)
TBA

September 2023  |  Workshop "Theoriebildung und Theorieprüfung in der analytisch-empirischen Soziologie", University of Mainz, (invited keynote speaker)
TBA

July 2023  |  Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University of Hannover, (invited)
​What empirical network analysis can do for philosophy of science: The case of model transfer

July 2023  |   DZHW-LCSS Forschungskolloquium, German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies, Hannover  (invited)
TBA

July 2023  |   Workshop on 'Thick Concepts in Science', Philosophy Department, University of Edinburgh, (invited)
TBA

June 2023  |   Philosophy Department, University of Mainz, (invited)
TBA

May 24-26 2023   |  INEM Conference, University of Venice
Book Symposium on "How Economics Can Save the World" (w. Erik Angner, Francesco Guala, Don Ross and Jack Vromen)

​​ 2023  |   IZWT Kolloquium, University of Wuppertal  (invited)
What empirical network analysis can do for philosophy of science: The case of model transfer

2022  |  10th Conference of the European Society for the History of Science; part of the symposium: Science policies and scientific collaboration, Brussels
Not More than Exchanging Tools: Early Encounters Between Mathematical Economists and the Behavioral Sciences Movement, 1950-56

2022   |  Lake Workshop 'From Models to Decisions, 2022, Castelvecciana, (invited keynote speaker)
What empirical network analysis can do for philosophy of science: The case of model transfer

2022   |  Conceptual Engineering Seminar Series, University of Zurich and University of St. Andrews, (invited) [here is the video]
Thick concepts in economics

2022   |  Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern, (invited)
Thick concepts in economics

2022   |  Institute of Philosophy, ETH, (invited)
Empirically studying model transfer in science: Some methodological reflections

2022   |  Lecture in Gender Studies, University of Zurich, (invited)
Warum verlassen Frauen die Philosophie?

2022   |  CRASSH, University of Cambridge, (invited)
Why do women leave philosophy?

2022   |  Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, (invited)
What empirical network analysis could offer to Integrated HPS

2022   |  LOGOS Colloquium, University of Barcelona, (invited)
Thick concepts in economics

2022   |  ModelSEN Workshop, Max-Planck Institute of the History of Science, (invited)
Applications of Network Analysis in the History of Economics (presenter: Malte Doehne)

2021   |  History of Economics Conference, University of Utrecht [here is the video]
Rational choice theories at the Cowles Commission, 1944-1955

2021   |  History of Economics Conference, University of Utrecht [here is the video]
The role of narratives in transferring rational choice models from economics into political science (presenter: Alexandra Quack)

2021   |  International Workshop on Interdisciplinarity and Philosophy of Science,' National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (invited)
What empirical network analysis could offer to research in Integrated HPS

2021   | Workshop on 'Thick Concepts in the Philosophy of Science', University of Hannover (invited keynote)
Thick Concepts in Economics

2021   |  Economics Department, New York University, (invited)
Rational choice theories at the Cowles Commission, 1944-1960

2021   |  INEM Conference, Arizona State University
The many faces of rational choice theory

2021   |  Workshop on 'Framing Innovation in a Networked World: An Interdisciplinary Workshop,' (invited keynote)
What empirical network analysis could offer to research in Integrated HPS (with Malte Doehne)

2021   |  Workshop on 'Narrative in Economics: Historical Experiences', London School of Economics
The role of narratives in transferring rational choice models from economics into political science (with Alexandra Quack)

2021   |  History of Economic Thought Lecture Series, Stanford University, (invited)
A history of rational choice theory in economics

2021   |  Research Forum, University of Bayreuth, (invited)
The many faces of rational choice theory

2021   |  British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting, University of Kent
Crossing domains: The role of translation in cross-disciplinary model transfer

2021   |  British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting, University of Kent
Challenges to methodology transfer in science and philosophy (with Dunja Šešelja)

2021   |  Institute of Philosophy, University of Göttingen, (invited)
Warum verlassen Frauen die Philosophie? Erste Ergebnisse einer explorativen Studie

2021   |  SDAC Guest Lecture Series, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (invited) [Here is the video]
The diversity of rational choice theory

2021   |  Digital Lunch Seminar "META Lecture", Polytechnic University of Milan (invited)
The many faces of rational choice theory

2021   |  PPE Seminar, Department of Philosophy, University of Lucerne (invited)
Die vielen Gesichter der Theorie rationalen Entscheidens

2021  |  Conference on Digital Studies of Digital Science, UC Louvain
What empirical network analysis could offer to research in Integrated HPS (with Malte Doehne) 

2021  |  Workshop: Transdisciplinary Model Transfer and its Interfaces, University of Vienna (invited)
Crossing domains: The role of translation in cross-disciplinary model transfe​r

2021  | Economics Department, George Mason University (invited)
The many faces of rational choice theory

2021  | Colloquium on the Foundations of the Market Order, Leipzig University (invited)
Rational choice theories at the Cowles Commission, 1944-1960

2021  |  Philosophy & Ethics Kolloquium, TU Eindhoven, (invited)
What empirical network analysis could offer to research in Integrated HPS

2021  |  Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University of Hannover, (invited)
Thick concepts in economics: The case of Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy's 'Theory of Rational Addiction' ​(with Charles Djordjevic)

2020  |  Perspectives on Science Seminar, University of Helsinki, (invited)
Thick concepts in economics: The case of Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy's 'Theory of Rational Addiction' ​(with Charles Djordjevic)

2020  |  Lunch Seminar, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, (invited)
How academic opinion leaders shape the adoption of scientific ideas: Early engagement with the ‘Theory of Games and Economic Behavior’ at the Cowles Commission, 1944-1955

2020  |  ENPOSS Conference
The evaluative aspect of the concept of addiction in economics: The case of Gary Becker (with Charles Djordjevic)

2020  |  Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, San Diego
'Let's formalize behavior': The early adoption of rational choice theories at the Cowles Commission, 1944-1965

2020  |  Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, San Diego
Symposium discussion: Are we all behavioral economists now?

2019  |  Institute of Philosophy, University of Basel, (invited)
Warum verlassen Frauen die Philosophie? Erste Ergebnisse einer explorativen Studie

2019 |  Workshop on Cailin O'Connor's 'The Origins of Unfairness and Related Methodological Issues', University of Zurich
What empirical network analysis could offer to research in Integrated HPS

2019  |  Biennial Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Science, University of Geneva
Crossing domains: The role of the translator in the spread of scientific innovations

2019  |  Biannual Conference of the International Network for Economic Methodology, University of Helsinki
The evaluative aspect of the concept of addiction in economics: The case of Gary Becker (with Charles Djordjevic).

2019  |  Workshop on Inclusivity in the Philosophy Classroom, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, (invited)
Why Female Philosophy Students Drop Out of Philosophy and What We Could Do About It: First Results of an Explorative Study

2019  |  Workshop on Objectivity in Social Research, University of Bergen, Norway, (invited)
The evaluative aspect of the concept of addiction in economics: The case of Gary Becker (with Charles Djordjevic).

2019  |  Institute of Philosophy, University of Geneva, (invited)
Crossing domains: The role of the translator in the spread of scientific innovations

2019  |  University of Freiburg (CH), (invited)
Warum verlassen Frauen die Philosophie? Erste Ergebnisse einer explorativen Studie

2019  |  Institute of Philosophy, University of Neuchâtel (CH), (invited)
The many faces of rational choice theory

2019 |  Department of Philosophy, Duke University
The many faces of rational choice theory

2019 |  Lunch Seminar, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University
Not more than exchanging tools: early encounters between mathematical economists and the Behavioral Sciences Movement

2019  |  Annual Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science, University of Cologne
Crossing domains: The role of the translator in the spread of scientific innovations

2018 |  Workshop on Concept Formation in the Natural and Social Sciences, University of Zurich
The evaluative aspect of the concept of addiction in economics: The case of Gary Becker (collaborator and presenter Charles Djordjevic).

2018 |  Workshop on Science as FACTory, University of Vienna, (invited) 
The evaluative aspect of the concept of addiction in economics: The case of Gary Becker (collaborator and presenter Charles Djordjevic).

2018  | The European Network for Philosophy of the Social Sciences/The Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, University of Hannover
Can the rationality principle be understood as a functional a priori principle?

2018 |  Computational Modeling in Philosophy, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Conflicts of interest in science (collaborator and presenter Malte Doehne, UZH)

2018 |  Society for Women in Philosophy - Switzerland, (invited)
Warum verlassen Frauen die Philosophie? Erste Ergebnisse einer explorativen Studie

2018 |  Learning from Empirical Approaches to HPS, University of Pittsburg
What empirical network analysis could offer to research in Integrated HPS (with Malte Doehne, UZH)

2018 |  PPE Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, (invited)
The many faces of rational choice theory

2018 |  PPE Workshop, George Mason University, (invited)
The many faces of rational choice theory

2017 |  Colloquium at the Chair for Political Philosophy, University of Zurich (UZH), (invited)
Explaining patterns, not details: Reevaluating rational choice models in light of their explananda

2017 |  Workshop on 'Hard Choices and Rational Choice', University of Bern, (invited keynote lecture)
The many faces of rational choice theory

2017 |  Colloquium at the Chair for Science Studies, ETH Zurich, (invited)
Crossing domains: The role of the translator in the spread of scientific innovations

2017 |  Workshop on the 'Historiography of Recent Economics', University of Lausanne, (invited)
Applying social network analysis in the history of economics (with François Claveau, Sherbrooke University)

2017 |  Workshop 'Theories of Rationality', University of Bonn, (invited)​​
The many faces of rational choice theory

2017  |  British Society for Philosophy of Science - Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh
Crossing domains: The role of the translator in the spread of scientific innovations

2017 |  History of Economics Conference, University of Toronto
Applying social network analysis in the history of economics (presented by François Claveau, Sherbrooke University)

2017 |  Faculty of Philosophy and Education, University of Vienna
The many faces of rational choice theory

2017 |  Annual Conference, European Society for the History of Economic Thought
Five reasons for why network analysis can be fruitful for the history of economics (presented by Malte Doehne, UZH)

2016 |  Ringvorlesung zur Einführung in die Philosophie, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie

2016 |  Summer School on Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, (invited​)
Using social network analysis in philosophy

2016 |  INEM/CHESS Summer School on Philosophy and Economics, San Sebastian (two invited lectures)
Reappraising rational choice theory in the context of economic practices 

2016 |  6th International Conference on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science, University of Edinburgh
Imagination rather than observation in econometrics: Ragnar Frisch’s hypothetical experiments

2016 |  History of Economics Conference, Duke University
“Let’s formalize behavior”: The diffusion of rational choice theories, 1944-1965 (with Malte Doehne, UZH)

2016 |  3rd Annual Conference on the History for the Recent Social Sciences, London School of Economics
Not more than exchanging tools: early encounters between mathematical economists and the Behavioral Sciences Movement

2016 |  20th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne
Turning towards normative choice models in the early Cold War years: The case of Cowles

2016 |  Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zurich
How knowledge travels: the case of rational choice theories

2016 |  Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie, University of Düsseldorf
The diffusion of scientific innovations: A role typology (with Malte Doehne, UZH)

2016 |  Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University, (invited​)
​How theories travel: The case of the Theory of Games, 1944-1970​ (with Malte Doehne, UZH)

2016 |  Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, San Francisco
Imagination rather than observation in econometrics: Ragnar Frisch’s hypothetical experiments

2015 |  Society for Women in Philosophy Germany Meeting, LMU Munich, (invited)
Do female-only events have a (positive) effect in mathematical philosophy? Results from a summer school
(collaborator and presenter: Elizabeth Rosas)

2015 |  Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Hannover, (invited)
Die Theorie rationalen Entscheidens: Ausprägungen und Nutzen in der Geschichte der Volkswirtschaftslehre

2015 |  Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, University of Rotterdam, (invited)
How theories travel: The case of the Theory of Games, 1944-1970​ (with Malte Doehne, UZH)

2015 |  Workshop on Studying Knowledge Transfer and its Contexts, CAS at LMU Munich
How theories travel: The case of the Theory of Games, 1944-1970​ (with Malte Doehne, UZH)

2015 |  Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, University of Helsinki
The diffusion of scientific theories: Network topologies and the role of the translator (collaborator and presenter: Malte Döhne)

2015 |  Work in Progress Seminar, MCMP
The adoption, diffusion and spread of scientific theories: The case of The Theory of Games, 1944-1970

2015 |  Lunch Talk, Center for Advanced Study at LMU Munich
Flexible concepts, unsettled axioms: How rational choice theories entered the social sciences in the Post War era

2015 |  History of Economics Society Annual Conference, Michigan State University
Shall we collaborate and if so, with whom? Jacob Marschak and the early years of the Behavioral Sciences Movement, 1950-56

2015 |  Workshop on History of Recent Economics as History of Science; École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, (invited)
Shall we collaborate and if so, with whom? Jacob Marschak and the early years of the Behavioral Sciences Movement, 1950-56

2015 |  Ringvorlesung, Wittener Institut für Institutionellen Wandel, Witten/Herdecke University, (invited)
The many faces of rational choice theory

2015 |  Conference, Economizing Mind, 1870-2015: When Economics and Psychology Met . . . or Didn't, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, (invited)
Economics and the ‘Behavioral Sciences Movement’: Jacob Marschak’s year at the Center of Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

2015 |  Arbeitstagung on Independence in Research, University of Hannover - Germany, (invited)
Interessenkonflikte in der Wissenschaft: Implikationen für Konsensbildung und ‚epistemic peerhood’ (with Lee Elkin and Stephan Hartmann

2015 |  Research Seminar, Economics Department, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, (invited)
Between the ‘logic of choice’ and the behavioral sciences: The emergence of rational choice theories in the 1950s

 
2015 |  Workshop on Social Simulation, University of Bayreuth, (invited)
“Let’s formalize behavior”: The diffusion of rational choice theories in the American social sciences, 1944-1965 (collaborator and presenter: Malte Döhne)

2015 |  Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, Boston
Between the ‘logic of choice’ and the behavioral sciences: The emergence of rational choice theories in the 1950s

2014 |  1st Witten Conference on Institutional Change: Money, Credit & Banking - The Austrian Economics Perspective on Financial Crises, Witten/Herdecke University
The economist’s persisting commitment to methodological rationalism

2014 |  Workshop, Decisions, Groups, and Networks, MCMP and CAS at LMU Munich
“Let’s formalize behavior”: The diffusion of rational choice theories in the American social sciences, 1944-1965 (with Malte Döhne)

2014 |  British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, University of St. Andrews
Between economics and the behavioral sciences: Marschak and the emergence of rational choice theories in the 1940s and 1950s

2014 |  Research Colloquium, Perspektiven in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Chair for the History of Science, LMU, (invited)
Defining the rules of rationality: Jacob Marschak and the normative turn in economics, 1943-1954

2014 |  History of Economics Society Annual Conference, Université du Québec à Montréal; plenary talk for the Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Prize, (invited)
The many faces of rational choice theory

2014 |  History of Economics Society Annual Conference, Université du Québec à Montréal
Defining the rules of rationality: Jacob Marschak and the normative turn in economics, 1943-1954

2014 |  History of Recent Economics Conference (HISRECO), University of Siena, (invited)
Has there been a normative turn in early post-war economics? Jacob Marschak and the Cowles Commission, 1944-1954

2014 |  Lunch Seminar, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, (invited)
Has there been a normative turn in early post-war economics? Jacob Marschak and the Cowles Commission, 1944-1954

2014 |  Research Seminar in the History and Methodology of Economics, Utrecht School of Economics and the Nijmegen School of Management, (invited)
Has there been a normative turn in early post-war economics? Jacob Marschak and the Cowles Commission, 1944-1954

2013 |  Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice – Fourth Biennial Conference, Toronto
An argument for ‘local critique’ in philosophy of economics: The case of rational choice theory

2013 |  XI. Conference for the International Network of Economic Method, University of Rotterdam
An argument for ‘local critique’ in philosophy of economics: The case of rational choice theory

2013 |  Lunch Talk, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University
Axiomatic choice theory traveling between mathematical formalism, normative choice rules, and psychological measurement, 1944-1956

2011 |  Graduate Workshop, Witten/Herdecke University
An argument for appraising rational choice theory as a research program

2011 |  Conference on “What Makes Us Moral?,” University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
The importance of commitment for morality: How Harry Frankfurt can  enrich economic models (with Katrien Schaubroeck)

Since 2021 | Steering Committee Member  
European Philosophy of Science Association
 

Since 2020 |   European Society for the History of Economic Thought Council Member; History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) - Member and Chair of the Nominations and Elections Committee.
 

Since 2014 |   Program Committee Member
Conference of the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science 2022, Conference on 'Recent Shifts in the Boundaries of Economics: Philosophy and History 2022', 'Kongress der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie; Section: Philosophy of the Social Sciences' (2021); '8th Conference for Modeling and Simulation', 'Reasoning and Argumentation in Science' (MCMP/LMU Munich), Conference of the Eastern European Network for Philosophy of Science 2020, 'European Philosophy of Science Association Conference 2017', '3rd TOPOI Conference: New Trends in Rational Choice Theory', ‘Agent-based Modelling in Philosophy’ (MCMP/LMU Munich); ‘Explanation without Causation’ (MCMP/LMU Munich); ‘Objectivity in Science’ (8th Munich-Sydney-Tilburg Conference at Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics, and Philosophy of Science); ‘Evidence, Inference, and Risk’ (9th Munich-Sydney-Tilburg Conference at Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics, and Philosophy of Science); 2nd Munich Graduate Workshop in Mathematical Philosophy.
 

2013 - 17 |   Search Committee Member 
for PhDs, postdoctoral positions, assistant professorships, and visiting fellows at the MCMP.
 

Since 2013 |   Referee
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Dialectica, Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Erkenntnis, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of Political Economy, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, International Review of Economics Education, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Journal of Social Philosophy, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Springer Books, Synthese. 
 

2016-17 |   Prize Committee Member 
of the History of Economics Society for the best article in the history of economics (2016), and of the Mark Blaug Prize of the  Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics for young scholars (2017).
 

2013-16 |   Overseas Postgraduate Ambassador 
for the British Society for the History of Science.
 

2014 |   Organization of Reading Groups 
Reduction and Emergence (with Sebastian Lutz and Alexander Reutlinger); A Reason-based Rational Choice Theory (with Cédric Paternotte), Measurement in Science (with Sebastian Lutz and Johanna Wolff).
 

2012 |   Archivist
Archiving papers of Douglass C. North and Martin Shubik of the ‘Economists Paper Project’ at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Archive at Duke University.
 

2006-08 |   LSE Representative
McGill Undergraduate Journal for Development Economics

2022 |  Workshop
Current Research on the History of Economics in Switzerland and Beyond, University of Lucerne; (with Verena Halsmayer, Monika Wulz, and Harro Maas)

​2022 |  Workshop
The Epistemic Role of Narratives in Science, University of Zurich (with Alexandra Quack)

2022 |  Workshop
Progress: Moral and Scientific with Philip Kitcher, University of Zurich (with Kathrin von Allmen)

2022 |  Masterclass
The Progress of Inquiry, University of Zurich (with Stefan Riegelnik)

2022 |  Conference
URPP Conference on Gender and Inequality, University of Zurich (with David Dorn and Michela Carlana)

2021 |  Conference
Preferences, Commitments, and Choice, University of Zurich (with Michael Messerli and Kevin Reuter)

2021 |  Workshop
Current Research on the History of Economics in Switzerland and Beyond, University of Lausanne; (with Verena  Halsmayer and Harro Maas)

2019 |  Workshop
Cailin O’Connor’s ‘The Origins of Unfairness’ and related methodological issues, University of Zurich

2019 |  Conference 
The Soul of Economics, University of Zurich (with Chiara Lisciandra and Carlo Martini)

2019 |  Workshop
Current Research on the History of Economics in Switzerland and Beyond, University of Zurich; (with Harro Maas)

2018 |  Workshop
Concept Formation in the Natural and Social Sciences, University of Zurich; (with Sebastian Lutz) 

2018 |  Conference 
History of the Recent Social Sciences, University of Zurich; (with Philippe Fontaine - École normale supérieure de Cachan, Jamie Cohen-Cole - George Washington University, Jeff Pooley - Muhlenberg College)

2018 |  Workshop
Current Research on the History of Economics in Switzerland and Beyond, University of Lausanne; (with Harro Maas)

2018 |  Masterclass
Reductionism and Antireductionism in Economics - with Kevin Hoover (Duke University), University of Zurich; (with Stefan Riegelnik)

2016 |  Workshop 
First Principles in Science: Their Epistemic Status and Justification, MCMP, LMU; (with Milena Ivanova).

2015 |  Workshop 
Studying Knowledge Transfer and its Contexts, Center for Advanced Study at LMU.

2015 |  Summer School  
Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students, MCMP, LMU; (with Milena Ivanova and Kristina Liefke).

2014 |  Workshop 
Decisions, Groups, and Networks, MCMP and CAS at LMU; (with Stephan Hartmann and Paul Thurner).

2014 |  Summer School 
Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students, MCMP, LMU; (with Stephan Hartmann, Hannes Leitgeb and Kristina Liefke).

2021 |   Karl Heinz Hoffmann Prize
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (10.000 EUR)

2014 |   Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Prize
History of Economics Society, US. (500 US-Dollar)

2014 |   Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize
Wittener Universitätsgesellschaft of Witten/Herdecke University, Germany.

2021 |   ERC Starting Grant​
European Research Council, in support of the project: 'Model Transfer and its Challenges in Science: The Case of Economics' (1.5.Mio. EUR).

2021 |   Project Grant
University Research Priority Program “Equality of Opportunity,” UZH (145.000 EUR).

2020 |   Project Grant
Stiftung für Wissenschaftliche Forschung in support of the project ‘Why Do Female Students Leave Philosophy? Evidence from Switzerland’, (25.000 CHF).

2019 |   Conference Grant
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) in support of the conference ‘The Soul of Economics’ (23.000 CHF).​

​2018 |   Workshop Grant
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) in support of the workshop ‘Concept Formation in the Natural and Social Sciences’ (13.400 CHF).
 

2018 |  Seed Money
UZH, in support of an SNF grant application (10.000 CHF).

2016 |   Research Grant 
European Society for the History of Economics in support of the project “Explorations in the recent history of decision theory, 1945‐1990,” together with Ivan Moscati (Insubria University) (11.000 EUR).

2015 |   Junior Research Fellowship
Center for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich (semester-long research fellowship awarded for academic excellence).

2014 |   Young Scholar Award
History of Economics Society.

2013-16 |   Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich, Germany.

2012-13 |   Junior Research Fellow
Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, USA.

2011-12 |   Predoctoral Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany.
​Department: Lorraine Daston

2007-09 |   Full PhD-scholarship
Witten/Herdecke University.