International Network for Economic Method (INEM) Conference 2025

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17th Biennial INEM Conference Welcome! We are delighted to host the 17th Biennial INEM Conference taking place September 17th-19th, 2025, with support by the International Network for Economic Method (INEM). Key information at a glance:

• Submission deadline: March 1st, 2025
• Registration deadline: August 1st, 2025
• Keynotes: Wendy Carlin, Katherine Furman, and Richard Pettigrew
• Featuring a young scholars award and travel grants, a social programme, free childcare, a remote presentation option and the opportunity to submit to a special issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology.

Call for Submissions

We welcome proposals for contributed papers and symposia in all areas of the philosophy and methodology of economics. We particularly encourage submissions that combine philosophy and methodology of economics with other perspectives on studying economics offered, for instance, by history and sociology of economics, decision theory, ethics and political philosophy, as well as submissions in Africana philosophy and economics, social ontology, feminist approaches and postcolonial approaches. Contributions by early career scholars and from outside Western Europe or the US/Canada are particularly encouraged. A limited number of remote presentations can be accommodated. Speakers at the conference will be eligible to submit their full papers to a special issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology.

Submission Procedure:

Please prepare your submission for anonymous review, and submit it through https://inem2025.sciencesconf.org. Abstracts for contributed papers should be 700–1,000 words. If you are interested in presenting your paper remotely, please indicate so in your submission. A symposium is typically composed of 3 or 4 papers that address a shared theme within a 1,5 hour time slot. Symposium proposals should contain a short summary of the topic and motivation of the symposium (250–300 words) accompanied by abstracts of the symposium papers (500–900 words each). Book symposiums or proposals for alternative formats will also be considered.

Deadlines:

• March 1st, 2025: Deadline for the submissions of both papers and symposia.
• May 1st, 2025: Communication of decisions.
• August 1st, 2025: Conference registration deadline.

Organisers

Programme Committee:

Catherine Herfeld (Co-Chair); Guilhem Lecouteux (Co-Chair); Erik Angner; Antoinette Baujard; Constanze Binder; Ivan Boldyrev; Merve Burnazoglu; François Claveau; Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay; Malte Dold; Sheila Dow; Judith Favereau; Francesco Guala; Conrad Heilmann; Sahar Heydari Fard; Kevin Hoover; Chiara Lisciandra; Caterina Marchionni; Mary Morgan; Ivan Moscati; Patricia Rich; Don Ross; David Teira

Local Organising Committee:

Johanna Thoma (Chair); Patricia Rich (Deputy Chair); Katja Kaufmann; Stefan Napel; Olivier Roy; Frank Steffen

Contact information:

Programme Committee: [email protected]
Local Organisers: [email protected]

Opportunities for Young Scholars

The Journal of Economic Methodology is kindly sponsoring both a young scholars award, as well as travel grants for young scholars. Young scholars are either graduate students or scholars who have obtained their PhD after January 1, 2022. The young scholars award will be awarded to the best papers presented at the conference by young scholars. Up to three papers will be selected by a committee consisting of INEM scholars. Each will be awarded USD 750. After communication of acceptance, young scholars accepted at the conference are also eligible to apply for travel support for any costs not covered by their institutions. Young scholars who submit abstracts for INEM 2025 should indicate their status as such during the submission process.

Registration

A registration page will be set up in due course. Here you can also indicate whether you wish to join for the conference dinner, and whether you require childcare, which is provided free of charge for the duration of the academic parts of the conference (but not for the evening programme or Saturday hike).

Fees:

We expect all participants to become an INEM member here starting at USD 30 (reduced fee)/USD 40.

• Reduced conference fees INEM members: EUR 55
• Reduced conference fees non-INEM members: EUR 95
• Regular conference fees INEM members: EUR 105
• Regular conference fees non-INEM members: EUR 165

Reduced fees apply to young scholars (graduate students or scholars who have obtained their PhD after January 1, 2022) and those from non-high-income countries (according to the World Bank’s classification). The fees cover all lunches, coffee breaks and a social programme. For the INEM-sponsored conference dinner, a partial contribution of EUR 40 will be charged at the venue.

Schedule

The full programme will be made available here in due course.

Wednesday, September 17th:

• 08:30-09:30: Registration
• 09:30-09:45: Welcome
• 09:45-11:00: Keynote 1
• 11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
• 11:30-13:00: Parallel Sessions A
• 13:00-14:30: Lunch and Journal of Economic Methodology Meeting
• 14:30-16:00: Parallel Sessions B
• 16:00-16:30: Coffee Break
• 17:00-19:00: City Tour
• 20:00-late: Young Scholars Event

Thursday, September 18th:

• 08:30-09:30: Registration
• 09:30-11:00: Parallel Sessions C
• 11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
• 11:30-13:00: Parallel Sessions D
• 13:00-14:30: Lunch
• 14:30-16:00: Parallel Sessions E
• 16:00-16:30: Coffee Break
• 16:30-17:45: Keynote 2
• 18:30-19:30: Brewery/Catacombs Tours
• 19:30-late: Conference Dinner

Friday, September 19th:

• 08:30-09:30: Registration
• 09:30-11:00: Parallel Sessions F
• 11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
• 11:30-13:00: Parallel Sessions G
• 13:00-14:00: Lunch
• 14:00-14:45: INEM Plenary
• 14:45-16:00: Keynote 3
• 16:00-16:30: Coffee and Farewell

Saturday, September 20th:

From 10:30: Anybody still around is welcome to join for a leisurely hike to a countryside Biergarten for lunch. You should be able to get back to the train station by 14:30.

Keynotes

Wendy Carlin
Wendy Carlin is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL), Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She leads an international project - the CORE Econ project - to reform the undergraduate economics curriculum and is co-director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy. Her research focuses on macroeconomics, institutions and economic performance, the economics of transition, and economic knowledge and education. She has co-authored with David Soskice four macroeconomics books, the most recent of which, Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability, and Inequality (2024) brings to the fore how inequality can be incorporated in macroeconomic modelling of business cycles, financial instability, and growth in a unified way.

Katherine Furman
Katherine Furman is a South African philosopher working at the University of Liverpool. Previously, she was the director of the MA in Health and Society at the University College Cork, Ireland. She works on philosophy and public policy, specialising in health policy cases, particularly infectious diseases in African countries, mostly HIV/AIDS and Ebola. She is concerned with health policy interventions in contexts of deep distrust, especially when that distrust is warranted, and the stakes of intervention are high. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics, where she worked on the South African AIDS denialist policies of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Richard Pettigrew
Richard Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. He received his PhD in Mathematical Logic from the University of Bristol in 2008. He initially worked in the philosophy of mathematics, then Bayesian epistemology and the foundations of statistics, and then rational choice theory; more recently, he has begun to write in ethics and political philosophy with a particular focus on the overlap with epistemology and rational choice theory. He has published three research monographs (Accuracy and the Laws of Credence (2016), Choosing for Changing Selves (2019), and Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality (2022)), one co-authored trade book (Who Are Universities For? (2018)), and one expository book (Dutch Book Arguments (2020)). During 2024-25, he will be the John Locke Lecturer at the University of Oxford.