Professor in Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Research area
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.

Short Bio
Jack Vromen (1958) obtained his PhD degree at the University of Amsterdam (1994). Currently he is professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Dean of International Affairs and Managing Director of the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE). He is part of the Executive Board (member elect) of the International Network for Economic Methodology (INEM) and he is the Book Review Editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology. In Spring 2003 he has a research fellowship (the Ludwig M. Lachmann Fellowship) at the London School of Economics.

Address
vromen@remove-this.fwb.eur.nl, (31)10-4088970/4088967
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