Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Junior Professor - Wissenschaftstheorie der Ökonomik / Philosophy of Economics // Research Visitor, London School of Economics // Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania

I am an Italian from Milan. During my studies, I have been increasingly attracted to interdisciplinary education and training, with a special focus on contemporary research at the interface between philosophy, economics and other decision sciences. I received both my BA in Economics (2004) and my MSc in Economics (2006) at Bocconi University (Milan). I then moved to the London School of Economics, where I completed my MSc in Philosophy (2007) and my PhD in Philosophy (2011), with a doctoral dissertation on the philosophical foundations of neuroeconomics. After completing my PhD, I joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bayreuth, where in 2012 I was appointed Junior Professor and immediately took up responsibility for developing and teaching a wide range of BA and MA philosophy courses.

For more information: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/fumagall/

Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Junior Professor - Wissenschaftstheorie der Ökonomik / Philosophy of Economics // Research Visitor, London School of Economics // Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania

Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Economics; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Philosophy of Science; Social and Political Philosophy.

Areas of Competence
Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences; Moral Philosophy; Philosophy and Public Policy; Metaphysics.

My main research interests are in philosophy of economics, philosophy of science, moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, philosophy and public policy. Over the last five years, I have published several articles in international peer-reviewed journals, including Economics and Philosophy, Biology and Philosophy, Erkenntnis, Philosophy of Science, Social Choice & Welfare, Philosophy of the Social Sciences and the Journal of Economic Methodology. I have given more than fifty talks at conferences and workshops around the world. I am Research Visitor at the London School of Economics (since 2011) and Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania (since 2013). I have been Visiting Scholar at the Finnish Center for Excellence (2013), the University of California San Diego (2014) and the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (2015).

Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Junior Professor - Wissenschaftstheorie der Ökonomik / Philosophy of Economics // Research Visitor, London School of Economics // Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania

Journal Publications

Fumagalli, R. (Forthcoming). On the Neural Enrichment of Economic Models: Recasting the Challenge. Biology and Philosophy. In press.

Fumagalli, R. (2016). Decision Sciences and the New Case for Paternalism: Three Welfare-Related Justificatory Challenges. Social Choice & Welfare 47 (2): 459-480.

Fumagalli, R. (2016). Choice Models and Realistic Ontologies: Three Challenges to Neuro-Psychological Modellers. European Journal for the Philosophy of Science 6: 145-164.

Fumagalli, R. (2016). Economics, Psychology and the Unity of the Decision Sciences. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 46 (2): 103-128.

Fumagalli, R. (2016). Why we Cannot Learn from Minimal Models. Erkenntnis 81 (3): 433-455.

Fumagalli, R. (2016). Five Theses on Neuroeconomics. Journal of Economic Methodology 23 (1): 77-96.

Fumagalli, R. (2015). No Learning from Minimal Models. Philosophy of Science 82 (5): 798-809.

Fumagalli, R. (2014). Neural Findings and Economic Models: Why Brains have Limited Relevance for Economics. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (5): 606-629.

Fumagalli, R. (2013). The Futile Search for True Utility. Economics and Philosophy 29 (3): 325-347.

Fumagalli, R. (2013). Invited Review of "Economics for Real: Uskali Mäki and the Place of Truth in Economics" (Routledge). Economics and Philosophy 29 (2): 283-289.

Fumagalli, R. (2012). On the Alleged Insignificance of the Primordial Existential Question. Studia Leibnitiana 44 (2): 212-228.

Fumagalli, R. (2011). On the Neural Enrichment of Economic Models: Tractability, Trade-offs and Multiple Levels of Descriptions. Biology and Philosophy 26 (5): 617-635.

Fumagalli, R. (2010). The Disunity of Neuroeconomics: a Methodological Appraisal. Journal of Economic Methodology 17 (2): 119-131.

Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Junior Professor - Wissenschaftstheorie der Ökonomik / Philosophy of Economics // Research Visitor, London School of Economics // Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania

Summer Semester 2015

• Economics and Bioethics. BA seminar course.
• Scientific Revolutions in Economics. BA and MA seminar course.
• Philosophy and Public Policy. BA and MA seminar course.
  

P&E-Lehrveranstaltungsportal / P&E Course Organizer

Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Junior Professor - Wissenschaftstheorie der Ökonomik / Philosophy of Economics // Research Visitor, London School of Economics // Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania

Telefon: +49 (0)921 55-4231
E-Mail: roberto.fumagalli@uni-bayreuth.de
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Raum: 1.02 (GW II)