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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

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17:00 - 19:00 Welcoming Cocktail (Salle d'honneur des Universités)  

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Time Event (+)
08:30 - 09:00 Registration - Distribution of badges  
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome remarks (Amphi Geny) - Samuel Ferey and Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay  
09:15 - 10:15 Keynote: Rules That Make Their Own Data: Paradoxes and Impossibilities in Strategic Classification (Amphi Geny) - Elizabeth Maggie Penn, Emory University  
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break  
10:45 - 12:15 Normative Economics (AR05) - Ute Schmiel, University of Duisburg-Essen (+)  
10:45 - 11:15 › The Invention of Homo Œconomicus: an Non-Linear Exclusion of Ethics from Economic Science - Philippe Gillig, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée  
11:15 - 11:45 › The Normative Foundations of Kaldor-Hicks Reasoning: Why Willingness-To-Pay Both Avoids and Does Not Avoid The Problem of Interpersonal Utility Comparisons - Patricia Marino, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo  
11:45 - 12:15 › The paradoxes and contradictions of the positive-normative distinction in economics - Ute Schmiel, University of Duisburg-Essen - Michaela Haase, Freie Universität Berlin = Free University of Berlin  
10:45 - 12:15 Reconstruction-Deconstruction (B111) - Judith Favereau, Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (+)  
10:45 - 11:15 › Individualisme méthodologique et implosion du programme de recherche scientifique néoclassique : une interprétation à partir de Lakatos - Alain Herscovici, Universidade Federal do espírito Santo, Programa de Pós-Graduaçao em Economia, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa de l´Etat de São Paulo, Fundaçãode Amparo à Pesquisa do Espírito Santo  
11:15 - 11:45 › Neoliberalism: A Lakatosian Rational Reconstruction - Aleksander Ostapiuk  
11:45 - 12:15 › Too Paradoxical? Deconstructive Epistemology as Economic Methodology - Giustino De Michele, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Centre Interdisciplinaire d'Étude des Littératures d'Aix-Marseille  
10:45 - 12:15 Rationality (B112) - Luc Bovens, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (+)  
10:45 - 11:15 › Against the teleological conception of practical reasons - Victor Mardellat, Centre d'Études Sociologiques et Politiques Raymond Aron  
11:15 - 11:45 › The Paradox of Rational Contradiction: On the Relevance of Existentialism and the Concept of Bad Faith to Economics - Lacroix Yannick, Université Grenoble Alpes - Faculté d'Économie de Grenoble  
11:45 - 12:15 › On Being Rational and Responsible yet Ineffective, a Reappraisal of the Kagan-Nefsky Debate - Mathieu Guigourez, Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne  
10:45 - 12:15 Knowledge (B113) - Magdalena Małecka, University of Copenhagen (+)  
10:45 - 11:15 › The Paradox of Representation Reframed - Mario Chalita, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba [Argentina]  
11:15 - 11:45 › Models as Frameworks for Thinking: The Production of Ignorance through Signaling Theory - Arnaud Niedbalec, Pôle de recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences du management  
11:45 - 12:15 › Contradiction without Incoherence: Jain Logic and Structured Pluralism in Economics - Ragupathy Venkatachalam, Goldsmiths University of London - Diviya Diviya, Azim Premji University  
10:45 - 12:15 Individual Freedom and Collective Coercion (B205) - John Patty, Emory University (+)  
10:45 - 11:15 › William James: Classical Liberal or New Liberal? - Mario RIZZO, New York University  
11:15 - 11:45 › The paradox of political economy - F.E. Guerra-Pujol, University of Central Florida [Orlando]  
11:45 - 12:15 › Walking a Mile in your Shoes: Partial Agreement in Plural Societies - Constanze Binder, Erasmus University Rotterdam  
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch  
13:45 - 15:15 Moral Philosophy (AR05) - Thomas Ferretti, University of Greenwich (+)  
13:45 - 14:15 › How is paradox of blackmail paradoxical? - Igor Wysocki, Nicolaus Copernicus University [Toruń]  
14:15 - 14:45 › Meritocracy: a critical discussion of its paradoxical aspects - Annalisa Fabretti, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata  
14:45 - 15:15 › Effort, Performance and Generosity in Dictator Games - Adam Oliver, London School of Economics and Political Science  
13:45 - 15:15 Preferences (B111) - Adam Oliver, London School of Economics and Political Science (+)  
13:45 - 14:15 › Economic Preferences and Practical Reason - Ricardo F. Crespo, Universidad Austral - Giancarlo Ianulardo, University of Exeter Business School  
14:15 - 14:45 › The Neglected Heterogeneity in Cognitive Biases: The Epistemic Vices Behind - Daniel Zarama Rojas, Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA)  
14:45 - 15:15 › Why be a frame-sensitive reasoner? On the epistemic foundations of ultraintensional preference formation - James Grayot, University of Porto  
13:45 - 15:15 Mid-Century Economics (B112) - Ragupathy Venkatachalam, Goldsmiths University of London (+)  
13:45 - 14:15 › Rationality and Utility: Janina Hosiasson's Decision Theory Between 1931 and 1935 - Dillon Lamarche, McMaster University  
14:15 - 14:45 › Savage's Riddle: Savage's acts and real options - Vita Kudryavtseva, London School of Economics and Political Science  
14:45 - 15:15 › The Nomenclature Postulate and the Characteristics of Commodities - Julien Gradoz, Centre lyonnais d'Histoire du droit et de la pensée politique  
13:45 - 15:15 Institutions (B113) - Nathanael Colin-Jaeger, European School of Political and Social Sciences (+)  
13:45 - 14:15 › Stakeholder capitalism and the trilemma of capitalist governance - Sandrine Blanc, INSEEC  
14:15 - 14:45 › Conceptualizing Common Property Rights: An Institutionalist Reading of Elinor Ostrom - Massimo Cervesato, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne  
14:45 - 15:15 › Institutional Tensions: Why Institutions Need Benevolent Troublemakers - Konrad Werner, University of Warsaw  
13:45 - 15:15 Game Theory (B205) - Eric Kamwa, Bureau d'économie théorique et appliquée (BETA) (+)  
13:45 - 14:15 › Common Knowledge Paradox and Coordination of Expectations - Do Youn Won, Taejae University, AI Education Research Center, Korea University, University College  
14:15 - 14:45 › A game-theoretical approach to Obscurantism - Filip Buekens, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven  
14:45 - 15:15 › The One-Step Principle: Ambiguity and Performative Model Choice in Game-Theoretic Accounts of Pro-Environmental Behaviour - Alessandro Guerra, Università degli Studi di Milano  
13:45 - 15:15 La terre (B316) - Jean-Sébastien Gharbi, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (+)  
13:45 - 14:15 › La conception walrasienne de la justice sociale par la nationalisation des terres - TRISTAN FERREIRA ROCHA, University of Barcelona  
14:15 - 14:45 › L'art d'associer les ménages à la gestion des communaux et des climatures - Gaëtan Fustec, Université Catholique de l'Ouest  
14:45 - 15:15 › La croissance verte comme idéologie géosociale - Guillaume Quiquerez, Laboratoire d'Économie et de Sociologie du Travail - UMR 7317  
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break  
15:45 - 17:45 Reassessing Social Choice and Welfare Economics through History (AR05) - Herrade Igersheim, Bureau d'économie théorique et appliquée (+)  
15:45 - 16:15 › De l'usage des paradoxes en choix social - Jean-François Laslier, Paris School of Economics  
16:15 - 16:45 › Why a comprehensive approach to the history of welfarism is important for revisiting welfare economics - Antoinette BAUJARD, Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique, Université Jean Monnet (EPSCPE)  
16:45 - 17:15 › Games and Social Choice - Juan Carvajalino, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - Herrade IGERSHEIM, Bureau d'économie théorique et appliquée  
17:15 - 17:45 › The Maurice Salles Archives: An Inventory - VINCENT ROBERT MERLIN, Centre de recherche en économie et management - Benoit Walraevens, Centre de recherche en économie et management  
15:45 - 17:45 The Allais Paradox (B111) - Bertrand Munier, Président de Conseil scientifique de la Fondation Maurice Allais, Professeur émérite de l’Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (+)  
15:45 - 16:09 › An Allaisian Triple Grasp of the 'so-called Paradox' - Bertrand Munier, Fondation Maurice Allais, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne  
16:09 - 16:33 › Rationality and normative decision theory (symposium on Allais Paradox) - Mikael Cozic, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 - Faculté de Philosophie  
16:33 - 16:57 › Theoretical Critique and ‘Experimentum crucis': What Do Maurice Allais's Archives Teach Us About the 'Paradox'? - Samuel FEREY, BETA-CNRS - Dorian JULLIEN, CES-CNRS  
16:57 - 17:21 › Décider par temps calme. Ce que Kahneman et Tversky ont fait de l' « Homme Rationnel » d'Allais. (session "Paradoxe d'Allais") - Jean-Sébastien Lenfant, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - École de Management de la Sorbonne  
17:21 - 17:45 › What the Allais Paradox can still teach us about economics after 75 years - Seán Muller, University of Johannesburg  
15:45 - 17:45 Epistemic Issues (B112) - Mario Rizzo, New York University (+)  
15:45 - 16:15 › Holding the Paradox: Frank H. Knight on the Foundations of Economic Inquiry - Varvara Rogozhnikova, Lomonosov Moscow State University  
16:15 - 16:45 › Austrian Economics and the Paradox of Insignificant Apodictic Truth - Krzysztof Turowski, Jagiellonian University  
16:45 - 17:15 › Economic order and the paradox of absolute contingency - Leonardo Ivarola, University of Buenos Aires  
17:15 - 17:45 › Liberalism's Ouroboros: DOGE and the Transition Problem in Stark Relief - Scott Scheall, University of Austin  
15:45 - 17:45 Decision Theory (B113) - Roberto Fumagalli, King‘s College London (+)  
15:45 - 16:15 › A puzzle about checklist reasoning - Marco Grossi, University of Oxford  
16:15 - 16:45 › Going beyond Newcomb's problem with Kant hand in hand - Michal Pawlowski, Economics Department [European University Institute]  
16:45 - 17:15 › Intransitive Preferences - Luc Bovens, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  
17:15 - 17:45 › A Meta-Precautionary Solution to the Paradox of Precaution - Roberto Fumagalli, King‘s College London  
15:45 - 17:45 Problems of Capitalism (B205) - Yamina Tadjeddine, BETA, Université de Lorraine (+)  
15:45 - 16:15 › From Paradox to Contradiction: Re-describing the “Capital Conundrum” through Internal Relations and Social Ontology - Muhammad Zulkifly, Durham University  
16:15 - 16:45 › Karl Polanyi's critique: The inherent ambiguity in the concept of “economy” - Iliana Melero, Universidad de Zaragoza  
16:45 - 17:15 › Objective Hierarchies of Needs, Subjective Preferences, or Partial Hierarchies of Needs and Preferences? - Sina Badiei, Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée  
17:15 - 17:45 › Krisis or Kairos? About crises and their paradoxes - Dorina Patrunsu, University of Bucharest  
15:45 - 17:45 Le don (B316) - Emmanuel Petit, Bordeaux sciences économiques (+)  
15:45 - 16:15 › Care et capitalisme: une contradiction décisive - Francesco Adorno, Università degli Studi di Salerno  
16:15 - 16:45 › Entre altruisme et rationalité : la figure du "bon donneur” d'organes - Ninon Laparra, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire d'étude du Politique Hannah Arendt Paris-Est  
16:45 - 17:15 › Le paradoxe du Don: pauvreté ontologique et richesse de l'usage - Patrick Mardellat, Centre lillois d'études et de recherches sociologiques et économiques  
19:30 - 22:00 Gala dinner (Hôtel de Ville de Nancy - Place Stanislas)  

Friday, May 22, 2026

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote: In Praise of the Ambiguous and Inexact – Even in Economics (Amphi Geny) - Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and University of California San Diego  
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break  
10:30 - 12:30 Teaching Philosophy to Economists panel (AR05) - Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay  
10:30 - 12:30 Politics of Disagreement (B111) - Cyril Hédoin, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (+)  
10:30 - 11:00 › Title: Polycentricity, Cities' Autonomy, and the Fairness Objection - Nathanael Colin-Jaeger, ESPOL-LAB  
11:00 - 11:30 › Laundered Preferences: An Unrealistic Path Toward Consensus (Also from a Liberal Philosophy Perspective) - Jean-Sébastien Gharbi, Recherches en Économie Gestion AgroRessources Durabilité Santé- EA 6292  
11:30 - 12:00 › Gaus, Habermas, and modern unreasonableness - Pablo Paniagua, King‘s College London, Universidad del Desarollo  
12:00 - 12:30 › Dynamic Social Philosophy - Alexander Schaefer, University at Buffalo  
10:30 - 12:30 Macroeconomic contradictions (B112) (+)  
10:30 - 11:00 › Supposed paradoxes and real contradictions in macroeconomics - Angel Asensio, CEPN  
11:00 - 11:30 › Post-growth as public satiation - Gideon Frey, Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics  
11:30 - 12:00 › The matter of wellbeing : the Easterlin paradox through the eyes of matter and energy flows - Amine Messal, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay  
12:00 - 12:30 › Growing desires meet limits to growth: Hirsch's contradiction in Capitalism - Jens Jørund Tyssedal, University of Bergen  
10:30 - 12:30 Choosing (B113) - Dorian Jullien, CES-CNRS (+)  
10:30 - 11:00 › Model Selection as a Decision Problem - Raffaello Seri, InsIDE Lab, Dipartimento di Economia Università degli Studi dell'Insubria  
11:00 - 11:30 › On Uncertainty, Creativity, Dialectics, and Economic Choice Theory - Petur Orri Jonsson, Fayetteville State University  
11:30 - 12:00 › The Axiom of Choice Determination - A Philosophy of Science Perspective - Justin Leduc, University of Vienna  
10:30 - 12:30 Policy-making (B205) - Giancarlo Ianulardo, University of Exeter Business School (+)  
10:30 - 11:00 › THIN NUMBERS, THICK DEPRIVATIONS: HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY OF POVERTY MEASUREMENT - Judith Favereau, Université Lumière - Lyon 2  
11:00 - 11:30 › Contradictory implications of monetary policy transparency: transparency as a help and hindrance to inflation anchoring - Russell Ellen, Wilfrid Laurier University  
11:30 - 12:00 › Explaining Macroeconomic Policy Regimes Shifts Through Evolution: how the USA, the UK and France adopted Keynesianism and Neoliberalism - Alexandre TAWIL, Laboratoire d'économie et de gestion REGARDS, UFR de sciences économiques, sociales et de gestion  
12:00 - 12:30 › Between research and rhetoric: investigating the instrumental and strategic use of economic analysis in monetary policy making - Lukasz Hardt, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences  
10:30 - 12:30 Paradoxes (B316) - Patrick Mardellat, Centre lillois d'études et de recherches sociologiques et économiques (CLERSE) (+)  
10:30 - 11:00 ›  Banques centrales et paradoxes de gouvernance : communication, crédibilité et pressions politiques - Maxence Follot, Université de Bourgogne  
11:00 - 11:30 › Entre préexistence et indétermination : le paradoxe des opportunités chez Kirzner - Christel Vivel, ESDES, Lyon Business School - UCLy  
11:30 - 12:00 › Le comportement des joueurs de jeux vidéo est-il philosophiquement paradoxal ? - Emmanuel PETIT, Bordeaux sciences économiques  
12:00 - 12:30 › Le paradoxe d'Allais: origines et signification - Francis Bismans, Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 15:30 Reclaiming utopia 1 (AR05) - Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › Collectivizing the Hegel Master-Slave Dialectic while Upholding Methodological Individualism - S.M. Amadae, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge  
14:30 - 15:00 › Embodied Economics, Utopian Impulse, and Societal Transformation: Conceptual Pathways and Empirical Investigations - Frederic Basso, London School of Economics and Political Science  
15:00 - 15:30 › Reinventing property for building concrete utopias of economic life - Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University  
14:00 - 15:30 AI (B112) - Filip Buekens, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › The paradox of explainability in artificial intelligence - Annika Schuster, Technische Universität Dortmund  
14:30 - 15:00 › Protecting Employee Privacy in the Age of Workplace Analytics - Thomas Ferretti, University of Greenwich  
15:00 - 15:30 › The Artificially Intelligent Paternalist: does AI respect individuals' preferences as stated by themselves? - Guilhem Lecouteux, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Gredeg  
14:00 - 15:30 Public Finance (B113) - Julien Grandjean, INSP, BETA (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › Ignorance in economics: the idea of fiscal illusion in public finance - Mario Pomini  
14:30 - 15:00 › The Paradox of Deficits - Marc Morgan, University of Geneva  
15:00 - 15:30 › The Rhetorical Straitjacket of Economic Discourse: Monetary Theory, Fiscal Discipline and Democratic Constraints - Tiago Mendonça dos Santos, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí  
14:00 - 15:30 David Hume (B205) - Margaret Schabas, University of British Columbia (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › David Hume on authority and commerce - Rogerio Arthmar, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo  
14:30 - 15:00 › “Hume's Answers to Mandeville's Paradox” - Benoit Walraevens, Centre de Recherche en Economie et Management, Université de Caen Normandie  
15:00 - 15:30 › Beyond the Humean Mosaic: Hempel's Raven and the Epistemological Fragility of Neoclassical Economics - Stefan Voss, Samuel Pufendor Gesellschaft e. V., Ludwig Maximilian University  
14:00 - 15:30 Transition (B316) - Elodie Bertrand, Institut des Sciences Juridique et Philosophique de la Sorbonne (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › Une approche structurale des modèles fondateurs de la macroéconomie des ressources - Hugo Mosneron Dupin, École normale supérieure - Paris, Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement  
14:30 - 15:00 › La nature paradoxale du processus métabolique de production - François-Xavier Noire, CLERSE  
15:00 - 15:30 › Quantifier l'équité climatique : paradoxes métriques, inégalités historiques et colonialité du savoir - Rachel Pierre-Léandre, Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris)  
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 17:30 Reclaiming utopia 2 (AR05) - Don Ross, University College Cork, University of Cape Town, Georgia State University (+)  
16:00 - 16:30 › From values to utopias for political economy? - Magdalena Małecka, University of Copenhagen  
16:30 - 17:00 › Economics: Spoiler or generator of transformative ideologies? - Michiru Nagatsu, University of Helsinki  
17:00 - 17:30 › We are Keynes's grandchildren - Don Ross, University College Cork, University of Cape Town, Georgia State University  
16:00 - 17:30 Scholasticism (B111) - Ricardo F. Crespo, Universidad Austral (+)  
16:00 - 16:30 › Aristotle, Paradoxes, and Contradiction - Esma Kayar, Istanbul Medeniyet University  
16:30 - 17:00 › Aristotle's paradox of reciprocal exchange: the poor pay more - Gerhard Michael Ambrosi, Trier Universität  
17:00 - 17:30 › Thomas Aquinas on debt, beyond usury and just price - Pierre JANUARD, Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Économiques, FASS - Université Pontificale Saint Thomas d'Aquin (Angelicum)  
16:00 - 17:30 Democratic Institutions (B112) - Antoinette Baujard, Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique, Université Jean Monnet (EPSCPE) (+)  
16:00 - 16:30 › The Constitutional Public Good: Public Choice, Public Reason, and the Risk of Democratic Sectarianism - Cyril Hédoin, URCA - UFR des Sciences économiques, sociales et de gestion  
16:30 - 17:00 › Will Mechanism Design Set Us Free? Algorithmic Institutions and Hayekian Freedom - Kevin Leportier, University of Caen Normandie - CREM  
17:00 - 17:30 › The Democracy–Efficiency Paradox: Reconciling Collective Choice with Economic Rationality - Kamal Tasiu Abdullahi, Istanbul University  
16:00 - 17:30 Causality and Models (B113) - Guilhem Lecouteux, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Gredeg (+)  
16:00 - 16:30 › A Methodological Paradox of Fairness: Conditional and Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects Estimation in Higher Education Policy Evaluation - Zhenlan Yao, University of Dundee  
16:30 - 17:00 › On the Causal Interpretation of Agent-Based Economic Models: Epistemic Entitlements and Inferential Use - Massimo Rusconi, Dipartimento di Economia Università degli Studi dell'Insubria  
17:00 - 17:30 › Linking the Cogs: Justifying Mechanistic Explanations through Simulation - Maciej Nogaj, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economics  
16:00 - 17:30 Marché et institutions (B205) - Kevin Leportier, Université de Caen-Normandie - CREM (+)  
16:00 - 16:30 › Monnaie et raison d'Etat : le marché comme lieu de véridiction de la valeur face au problème d'incomplétude de la valeur de vérité des jugements de valeur - Yael Dosquet, École des hautes études en sciences sociales  
16:30 - 17:00 › Hegel's theory of measure: value and the intrinsic instability of market economy - Gaëtan Le Quang, CNRS, EconomiX, Université Paris Nanterre  
17:00 - 17:30 › Structural Externality: A New Concept - Elodie Bertrand, Institut des Sciences Juridique et Philosophique de la Sorbonne  
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