Prof.dr. Jack Vromen (1958) is professor of Theoretical Philosophy, with a special emphasis on Philosophy of Economics. Jack Vromen obtained his PhD degree (cum laude) in Economics at the University of Amsterdam in 1994. Currently he is professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Dean of International Affairs and Managing Director of the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE) at the Eramus University of Rotterdam.

The main research area of Jack Vromen is the Philosophy of economics, with an emphasis on conceptual and meta-theoretical aspects of the relation between evolutionary and economic theorizing.

Key publications

• Economic Evolution. An Enquiry into the Foundations of 'New Institutional Economics', Routledge, London/New York, 1995.
• Ontological Commitments of Evolutionary Economics, in Uskali Mäki (ed.), The Economic World View: Studies in the Ontology of Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 189-224.
• Stone Age Minds and Group Selection - What difference do they make?, in Constitutional Political Economy, 13 (2), 2002, 173-195.
• Cognitive theory meets evolutionary theory - What promise does evolutionary psychology hold out for economics?, in Salvatore Rizzello (ed.), Cognitive Developments in Economics, Routledge, 2003.
• Collective intentionality, evolutionary biology, and social reality, Philosophical Explorations VI (3), 2003, 251-264.
• Conjectural revisionary economic ontology: outline of an ambitious research agenda for evolutionary economics, in Journal of Economic Methodology, 11(2), June 2004.
  
  

Teaching

Introduction to Philosophy (Methodology and Ethics) of Economics, Philosophy of Social Sciences, Ethical Aspects of Economics, Foundations of Institutional and Evolutionary Economics.

Further Information
Curriculum Vitae
Online Papers
http://www.eur.nl/fw/english/eipe/