Methods and Finance

Part I. The View from Outside

1. Methods and Finance: A View from Outside
Emiliano Ippoliti

2. Mathematical Representation in Economics and Finance: Philosophical Preference, Mathematical Simplicity, and Empirical Relevance
Ping Chen

3. Behind the Price: On the Role of Agent’s Reflexivity in Financial Market Microstructure
Paolo Barucca, Fabrizio Lillo

4. On the Description of Financial Markets: A Physicist’s Viewpoint
Francesco Sylos Labini, Sergio Caprara

5. Research Habits in Financial Modelling: The Case of Non-normality of Market Returns in the 1970s and the 1980s
Boudewijn Bruin, Christian Walter

6. Super-Exponential Bubbles and Expectations: Theory, Simulations and Empirics
Matthias Leiss

Part II. The View from Inside

7. Methods and Finance. A View From Inside
Emiliano Ippoliti

8. Contemporary Finance as a Critical Cognitive Niche: An Epistemological Outlook on the Uncertain Effects of Contrasting Uncertainty
Tommaso Bertolotti, Lorenzo Magnani

9. The Sciences of Finance, Their Boundaries, Their Values
Alex Preda

10. Quantification Machines and Artificial Agents in Global Finance: Historical-Phenomenological Perspectives from Philosophy and Sociology of Technology and Money
Mark Coeckelbergh

11.
Dark Data. Some Methodological Issues in Finance
Emiliano Ippoliti

Nyckelord: Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Complexity, Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building, Finance, general, Epistemology