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Francesco Di Iorio
I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Nankai University in Tianjin (China). My research interests focus on the philosophy of social science, particularly on the individualism-holism debate, hermeneutics, fallibilism, ordinary rationality, complex systems, and the Austrian School of Economics.
I earned my PhD in Philosophy from EHESS and CREA-École Polytechnique (France) in 2012. Before joining Nankai University, I held postdoctoral positions at Duke University – Hope Center (USA) and Sorbonne-Paris 4 University (GEMASS – FMSH Fernand Braudel fellowship) and teaching positions at ESCP Europe Paris (France), Luiss University (Italy) and Southeast University (China).
I have served as an editorial board member for the SAGE journal Philosophy of the Social Sciences since 2018. Moreover, I am a member of the steering committee of the Asian Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ANPOSS). In 2017 I was awarded the Tianjin Young Scholars Program Prize.
I earned my PhD in Philosophy from EHESS and CREA-École Polytechnique (France) in 2012. Before joining Nankai University, I held postdoctoral positions at Duke University – Hope Center (USA) and Sorbonne-Paris 4 University (GEMASS – FMSH Fernand Braudel fellowship) and teaching positions at ESCP Europe Paris (France), Luiss University (Italy) and Southeast University (China).
I have served as an editorial board member for the SAGE journal Philosophy of the Social Sciences since 2018. Moreover, I am a member of the steering committee of the Asian Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ANPOSS). In 2017 I was awarded the Tianjin Young Scholars Program Prize.
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Analysis of the concept of rationality is a leitmotiv in the history of the social sciences and has involved endless disputes. Since it is difficult to give a precise definition of this concept, and there is a lack of agreement about its meaning, it is possible to say that there is a ‘mystery of rationality’. What is it to be rational? Is rationality merely instrumental or does it also involve the endorsement of values, i.e. the choice of goals? Should we consider rationality to be a normative principle or a descriptive one? Can rationality be only Cartesian or can it also be argumentative? Is rationality a conscious skill or a partly tacit one? This book, which has been written by an outstanding collection of authors, including both philosophers and social scientists, tries to make a useful contribution to the debates on these problems and shed some light on the mystery of rationality. The target audience primarily comprises researchers and experts in the field.
“Di Iorio offers a new approach to Hayek’s Sensory Order, linking neuroscience to the old Verstehen tradition and to contemporary theories of self-organizing systems; this should be on the reading list of everyone who is interested in Hayek’s thought.” - Barry Smith, University at Buffalo, editor of The Monist
As understood in this chapter, the concept of reductionism is a rehashed modern version of the ancient concept of atomism and describes the inability of certain sociological and economic approaches to take into account the systemic and socio-cultural constraints that influence individual action.
Analysis of the concept of rationality is a leitmotiv in the history of the social sciences and has involved endless disputes. Since it is difficult to give a precise definition of this concept, and there is a lack of agreement about its meaning, it is possible to say that there is a ‘mystery of rationality’. What is it to be rational? Is rationality merely instrumental or does it also involve the endorsement of values, i.e. the choice of goals? Should we consider rationality to be a normative principle or a descriptive one? Can rationality be only Cartesian or can it also be argumentative? Is rationality a conscious skill or a partly tacit one? This book, which has been written by an outstanding collection of authors, including both philosophers and social scientists, tries to make a useful contribution to the debates on these problems and shed some light on the mystery of rationality. The target audience primarily comprises researchers and experts in the field.
“Di Iorio offers a new approach to Hayek’s Sensory Order, linking neuroscience to the old Verstehen tradition and to contemporary theories of self-organizing systems; this should be on the reading list of everyone who is interested in Hayek’s thought.” - Barry Smith, University at Buffalo, editor of The Monist
As understood in this chapter, the concept of reductionism is a rehashed modern version of the ancient concept of atomism and describes the inability of certain sociological and economic approaches to take into account the systemic and socio-cultural constraints that influence individual action.