2016

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The Chair's team is growing: six new research assistants!

The Chair wishes a warm welcome to its new research assistants coming from different fields of the social sciences and humanities. Guillaume Bolduc, master's student in Education, will be working on how the teaching of critical thinking can be improved through web tools. Cédrik Cormier, master's student in Philosophy at Université de Sherbrooke, will be working on […] Read more

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INEM/CHESS Summer School in Philosophy and Economics

The Summer Schools aim to bring together graduate students with scholars from economics, philosophy and neighbouring disciplines in order to exchange ideas, build a community and help to further establish ‘economics and philosophy’ as an independent and diverse research field consisting of economic methodology, history of economic thought, rational choice theory, ethical aspects of economics, […] Read more

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Network Analysis and the History of Economics

A session at the History of Economics Society 2016 Conference. Session abstract: Network analysis is increasingly used by historians of science. This trend might be explained by three considerations. First, sciences are networks : networks of ideas, networks of individuals, networks of publications, networks of institutions. Second, data on these networks are more easily accessible today […] Read more

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Rousseau’s Mistake: Representation and the Myth of Direct Democracy

Le CRÉ est heureux d’accueillir Hélène Landemore (Yale University), qui nous offrira une présentation intitulée « Rousseau’s Mistake: Representation and the Myth of Direct Democracy ». Abstract For Rousseau, democracy was direct or it wasn’t. As he famously put it, “the moment a people allows itself to be represented, it is no long free: it no longer exists. […] Read more

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L’expertise : perspectives interdisciplinaires

This content is not available in the selected language. Responsables François CLAVEAU (Université de Sherbrooke), Frédéric BOUCHARD (Université de Montréal) Description Nous sommes individuellement et collectivement dépendants d’une grande variété d’experts. Comme individus ou groupes réputés pour en connaître plus que le profane sur un domaine, ils nous servent de témoins privilégiés dans notre tentative […] Read more