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Philosophy and Finance: Ten Open Questions

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  • Aug 2025

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Editors:
  1. Emiliano Ippoliti

    1. Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

  2. Melissa Vergara-Fernández

    1. University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  3. Fabrizio Zennaro

    1. Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

  • Provides thought-provoking analyses dealing with issues in philosophy of finance, crucial for economy and society
  • Shows standard ways of conceiving of knowledge production and acquisition in financial markets
  • Highlights the role of philosophy in financial markets’ constructions, design, and management

Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 504)

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About this book

This volume presents ten thought-provoking essays exploring issues in the philosophy of finance that are crucial for the economy and society. They also show the mutual relations and benefits between finance and philosophy. These issues include the link between financial systems and climate change, the ontologies of finance that are essential for market design, the role and effect of AI in the financial systems, the nature and prospects of money and their digital version, methodological problems in the use of models and mathematics in the financial world, and critical discussions of some of the main theories on financial systems, like the efficient market hypothesis. As this volume covers a wide array of topics whilst still forming a coherent whole, it is of interest to philosophers of finance, philosophers of science, epistemologists, and philosophers of economics, as well as to scientists and practitioners interested in the debates over methodological, ontological, epistemological as well as ethical issues in finance.

Keywords

  • Philosophy of finance
  • Ontology
  • Ethics
  • Algorithms and methods
  • Climate change
  • ontology of finance
  • ethics of financial markets

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Emiliano Ippoliti, Fabrizio Zennaro

  • University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Melissa Vergara-Fernández

About the editors

Emiliano Ippoliti is Associate Professor in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he received his PhD in Philosophy in 2005. From 2006 to 2008 he was Postdoctoral Researcher in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the same University. In 2008 He was visiting scholar at Penn State University (advisor: E. Grosholz) and then became Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Logic and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Science at Sapienza University of Roma (2008-2021). His research focuses on the philosophy of finance, heuristic logic, and philosophy of mathematics (in particular, the philosophy of scientific discovery). He edited and co-edited several volumes for Springer (e.g., “Building theories: Heuristics and hypotheses in science”, 2018 with D. Danks; “Methods and Finance. A Unifying view on Finance, Mathematics and Philosophy”, 2017, with P. Chen), and journal’s S.I. (e.g., “The explanatory andHeuristic Power of Mathematics”, 2022, for Synthese, with S. Bangu and M. Antonutti; “Philosophy for Finance: Theory and Practice”, 2021, for Topoi). His articles have appeared in various scientific journals, such as Synthese; Philosophia Mathematica; The Journal for the General Philosophy of science; Foundations of Science; Topoi.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philosophy and Finance: Ten Open Questions

  • Editors: Emiliano Ippoliti, Melissa Vergara-Fernández, Fabrizio Zennaro

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-96509-8Due: 14 September 2025

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-96512-8Due: 14 September 2026

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-96510-4Due: 14 September 2025

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 190

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour

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