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Riccardo Viale (Turin, December 31, 1952) is an internationally renowned epistemologist in the field of cognitive sciences.
Biography
[edit]He graduated in Medicine and Surgery in Turin on September 21, 1981, and specialized in Psychiatry in 1987. He continued his specialization in epistemology and cognitive sciences at Oxford with philosopher of science William Newton Smith, and in Houston and Princeton with cognitive psychologist Dan Osherson. In 1988, he began collaborating with economist, psychologist, and computer scientist Herbert Simon, Nobel laureate in Economics, on topics related to bounded rationality and cognitive economics, which led to the founding of the journal Mind & Society (Springer). His work on the cognitive foundations of social action, through the proposal of Methodological Cognitivism, developed with Raymond Boudon, continued with the theme of adaptive rationality in collaboration with Gerd Gigerenzer, director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, and from 2021, with philosopher Shaun Gallagher, on embodied cognition and enactive problem solving.
In 2000, after ten years at Università L. Bocconi in Milan, he became a full professor at the University of Milano Bicocca, where he introduced a behavioral approach to public policy through a critical revision of Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler's nudge model.
In 2010, after a year as a research scholar and visiting senior fellow at Columbia University, he directed the Italian Cultural Institute in New York.
In 2021, he initiated the Behavioral Analysis Team (TAC) within the Department of Public Function at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, which aims to promote the use of behavioral sciences to improve decision-making processes in public administration.
Following Herbert Simon’s death in 2001, he founded the Herbert Simon Society in 2008, together with thirty-one scholars including Nobel laureates Daniel Kahneman, Kenneth Arrow, Vernon Smith, Reinhard Selten, as well as Gerd Gigerenzer, James March, William Baumol, and Edward Feigenbaum, of which he is the Secretary General.
Selected publications
[edit]- 2025 The cognitive basis for decision making under risk and uncertainty: Research programmes and controversies. (edited with Samuel Shye), Lausanne: Frontiers
- 2024. Strumenti Per Negoziare. (con Davide Pietroni e Rino Rumiati). Milano: Cortina
- 2024 Companion to Herbert Simon (edited with G. Gigerenzer and S. Mousavi). Cheltenham: Elgar
- 2023 Embodied Bounded Rationality (edited with S.Gallagher and V.Gallese). Lausanne: Frontiers
- 2023 Artificial Intelligence and Financial Behaviour. (edited with S.Mousavi, U. Filotto, and B. Allemanni),Cheltenham: Elgar
- 2022 Nudging, Cambridge: The MIT Press
- 2021 Handbook of Bounded Rationality, London: Routledge
- 2021 Financial Education and Risk Literacy (edited with S. Mousavi, U.Filotto and B.Alemanni). Cheltenham: Elgar.
- 2021 Analisi comportamentale delle politiche pubbliche. (edited with Laura Macchi) Bologna: Il Mulino
- 2018 Behavioral Finance Revolution and Financial Regulations and Policies, (edited with S.Mousavi, B. Alemanni and U. Filotto). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
- 2018 Oltre il Nudge. Libertà di Scelta, Felicità e Comportamento , (with a foreword by Cass Susnstein) Bologna: Il Mulino
- 2016 Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality (edited with L. Macchi and M. Bagassi), The MIT Press
- 2013 Methodological Cognitivism, Vol. 2 Cognition, Science, and Innovation, Springer
- 2012 Methodological Cognitivism, Vol 1 Mind, Rationality and Society, Springer
- 2010 The capitalization of knowledge: a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government (edited with H. Etzkowitz), Edward Elgar
- 2008 La cultura dell’innovazione, Milano: Editrice Il Sole 24 Ore, 2008
- 2006 Biological and cultural bases of human inference (edited with D. Andler and L. Hirschfeld), Mahwah: L. Erlbaum
- 2005 Le nuove economie, Milano: Editrice Il Sole 24 Ore
- 2003 Valutare la Scienza, (con A. Cerroni) Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore
- 2001 Knowledge and Politics, Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag, 2001
- 2001 L’explication des norms sociales, (avec R. Boudon and P. Demeulenaere), Paris: Presses Universitaires de France
- 1997 Cognitive Economics, Lascomes Series, 1
- 1992 (reprinted in 2008) Economics, Bounded Rationality and the Cognitive Revolution (with H. Simon, M. Egidi and R. Marris), Brookfield: Edward Elgar
- 1991 Metodo e società nella scienza, Milano: Franco Angeli
- 1990 Modelling the Mind (edited with K.A. Mohyeldin Said, W.H. Newton-Smith, K.V. Wilkes), Oxford: Oxford University Press
- 1990 Innovazione Tecnologica nelle piccole e medie imprese, (con C. Roveda), Torino: La Rosa
- 1988 Autonomia dell’Università e della Ricerca, (con C. Roveda), Torino: La Rosa
- 1987 Mente Umana Mente Artificiale. Milano: Feltrinelli