Enrico Mattia Salonia

Value Beyond Preferences

We are pleased to invite submissions for the upcoming interdisciplinary workshop “Value Beyond Preferences”, to be held on , at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Department of Economics), Italy.

Keynote speakers

We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers:

The workshop is generously funded by the International Network for Economic Method (INEM).

Workshop description

The workshop aims to bring together economists and philosophers to explore fundamental questions about the nature of value and its representation, comparison, and aggregation.

In economics, value is traditionally understood and represented through individual or social preferences. In philosophy, there is a long-standing tradition investigating different conceptions of value (from hedonism to objective list) and ways in which goods may be valuable (intrinsic, extrinsic, instrumental, constitutive, and so on).

This workshop seeks to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on what economics can learn from philosophical theories of value and, conversely, how the formal and methodological tools developed in economics can contribute to philosophical inquiry.

Three core themes are of interest to the workshop:

  1. Conceptualizing Value: What makes something valuable, and how should value be understood?
  2. Representing and Comparing Value: How should value be measured and compared?
  3. Aggregating Value: How should value be aggregated, both within and across individuals?

Call for papers

We invite paper submissions from scholars working in economics, philosophy, and related disciplines. We welcome contributions addressing any aspect of the workshop's themes, broadly construed. The workshop will feature up to six contributed talks.

We particularly encourage submissions from early-career scholars and members of underrepresented groups. Thanks to INEM's generous support, limited financial assistance for travel and accommodation will be available, with priority given to early-career researchers and participants without access to institutional funding.

Please submit your paper by , via this submission form.

We aim to communicate our decisions by .

For further information, please contact mattia.salonia1@gmail.com.

Organizers