{"id":16,"date":"2017-02-03T14:51:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/users.unimi.it\/guala\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:18:43","slug":"papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/guala\/papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

I work\u00a0on\u00a0social ontology, and in particular\u00a0the nature of institutions. I also do experiments on\u00a0cooperation, coordination, group identity, and\u00a0I write occasionally on the methodology of economics.<\/p>\n

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Understanding Institutions<\/a> (Princeton University Press)\u00a0has been awarded the 2018\u00a0Joseph B. Gittler Award<\/a> by the American Philosophical Association,\u00a0\u201cfor an outstanding scholarly contribution in the field of the philosophy of one or more of the social sciences\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Methodology of Experimental Economics<\/a>\u00a0was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005 .<\/p>\n

Some papers, old and new<\/h3>\n

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\u201cNatural Kinds as Homeorhetic Dynamic Systems\u201d<\/a>, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science<\/em> (2025), online first (with Davide Serpico).<\/p>\n

\u201cMoney on My Mind: A Case Study of the Folk Ontology of Money<\/a>\u201d, in Philosophy and Finance: Ten Open Questions<\/em><\/a>, edited by E. Ippoliti, M. Vergara-Fernandez & F. Zennaro. Springer (2025), pp. 69-101 (with Alexander Noyes and Frank Keil).<\/p>\n

\u201cSocial Kinds: Historical and Multi-functional<\/a>\u201d, European Journal for Philosophy of Science<\/i> 13 (2023), 32.<\/p>\n

\u201cRational Coordination without Beliefs<\/a>\u201d, Erkenntnis<\/em> 88 (2023): 3163\u20133178 (with Camilla Colombo).<\/p>\n

\u201cCoordination without Meta-representation<\/a>\u201d, Philosophical Psychology<\/em> 35 (2022): 684-717 (with Camilla Colombo).<\/p>\n

\u201cRescuing Ontological Individualism<\/a>\u201d, Philosophy of Science <\/em>89 (2022), pp. 471-85. Here is a video<\/a> of a talk given at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, September 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cPreferences: Neither Behavioural nor Mental<\/a>\u201d,\u00a0 Economics & Philosophy<\/em> 35 (2019): 383-401.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Effect of Group Identity on Distributive Choice: Social Preference or Heuristic?<\/a>\u201d, Economic Journal\u00a0<\/i>127 (2017): 1047-1068 (with Antonio Filippin).<\/p>\n

\u201cPhilosophy of the Social Sciences: Naturalism and Anti-Naturalism<\/a>\u201d, in Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science<\/em>, edited by Paul Humphreys. Oxford University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Unified Social Ontology<\/a>\u201d, Philosophical Quarterly <\/i>65 (2015): 177-201 (with Frank Hindriks).<\/p>\n

\u201cInstitutions, Rules, and Equilibria: A Unified Theory<\/a>\u201d, Journal of Institutional Economics<\/i> 11 (2015): 459-480 (with Frank Hindriks). Followed by commentaries by Masahiko Aoki, Ken Binmore, Geoffrey Hodgson, John Searle, Vernon Smith, and Bob Sugden (plus our reply<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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\u201cReciprocity: Weak or Strong? What Punishment Experiments Do (and Do Not) Demonstrate<\/a>\u201d, Behavioral and Brain Sciences <\/i>35 (2012), pp. 1-59 (target article, followed by commentaries and reply).<\/p>\n

\u201cParadigmatic Experiments: The Ultimatum Game from Testing to Measurement Device<\/a>\u201d, Philosophy of Science<\/i>, 75 (2008), pp. 658-669.<\/p>\n

\u201cHas Game Theory Been Refuted?<\/a>\u201d, Journal of Philosophy<\/i> 103 (2006), pp. 239-263.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHeterogeneous Agents in Public Goods Experiments<\/a>\u201d, Experimental Economics<\/i>, 8 (2005), pp. 35-54 (with Roberto Burlando).<\/p>\n

A short History of Experimental Economics<\/a>, prepared for The<\/i> New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics<\/i>.<\/p>\n

A short Bibliography<\/a> of the philosophy of experimental economics, with post-2005 publications.<\/p>\n

For a full list of books and papers, see my publications<\/a> page<\/p>\n

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Surprisingly, some people disagree with me. If you want to know why,\u00a0have a look here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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