Publications

Books

La gauche évolutionniste: Spencer et ses lecteurs en France et en Italie.

Forthcoming in 2013, Presses universitaires de Franche Comté

Cultural Evolution & the Free Market.

Work in Progress, University of Chicago Press

Articles

Be Fruitful & Multiply: Growth, Reason & Cultural Group Selection in Hayek & Darwin.

Biological Theory 2012, 6(4): 413-423
DOI: 10.1007/s13752-012-0041-7 

In Search of the Proper Scientific Approach: Hayek’s Views on Biology, Methodology, and the Nature of Economics.

Science in Context 2009, 22(4):567–585 

Enrico Ferri’s Socialism: A Marxist Interpretation of Herbert Spencer’s Organic Analogy.

Journal of the History of Biology 2005 (38):301-325

F.A. von Hayek et les héritages intellectuelles du néo-libéralisme.

Agenda de la pensée contemporaine, Fall 2005 (5):73-84

Chapters

The Origin and Political Thought: From Liberalism to Marxism.
The Origin and Political Thought: From Liberalism to Marxism.

The Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species, Richards R.J. & Ruse M. (eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2008: pp. 295-313

The Diffusion of Spencerism and its Political Interpretations in France and Italy.
The Diffusion of Spencerism and its Political Interpretations in France and Italy.

Herbert Spencer: The Intellectual Legacy. Jones G. & Peel R. (ed.) London: The Galton Institute, 2003: pp. 37-60

Reviews

Francis, Mark. 2007. Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life. Cornell University Press.

Journal of Modern History, 2009, vol. 81, Issue 2: 410-412

Taylor, Michael E. 2007. The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer. London: Continuum International Publishing Group.

Isis, 2008, Vol. 99 No. 4: 862

Babini, Valeria P. 2004. Il caso Murri. Bologna: Il Mulino.

Isis, 2007, 98: 637-638.

Blanckaert, Claude. 2004. La nature de la société. Paris: L’Harmattan.

Nuncius, 2006, vol. 21 No. 2: 418-419

Fichman, Martin. 2002. Evolutionary Theory and Victorian Culture. New-York: Humanity Books.

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2003, vol. 39 No. 4: 412-413

Conference papers

Max Weber 4th Classics Revisited Conference, “Competition & Knowledge: Hayek’s Perspective” (Organiser).
Further conference papers in the Presentations section below.

Biographical entries

Spencer, Herbert.

Ruse M. Trevis J. (eds) Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. Harvard University Press: 2009, pp. 862-865

Encyclopedia articles

Social Darwinism.
Social Darwinism.

Ruse M. Trevis J. (eds) Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. Harvard University Press: 2009, pp. 865-869

Forthcoming publications

Social Darwinism.
Social Darwinism.

The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought, Ruse M. (ed.) Cambridge University Press: 2013

Presentations

Be Fruitful & MUltiply: Growth, Reason & Cultural Group Selection in Hayek & Darwin.

ETH, Zurich; The University of Chicago. April 2012

Homo mercans (Market Man).

Plenary speaker, conference on "The Evolution of Morality & The Morality of Evolution." The University of Oxford, St. Anne’s College. July 2011

In the Eye of the Beholder? The Many Faces of Evolutionary Politics.

Job Talk at George Washington University, Washington DC. March 2011
(position offered)

Cultural Group Selection in Hayek and Darwin.

Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris. Dec. 2010

Hayek’s Evolutionary Road to Freedom: Complex Phenomena and Economic Prediction.

Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, The University of Chicago. May 2010

Is The Market Order Moral? Faith and Reason in Hayek’s Theory of Cultural Evolution.

Konrad-Lorenz Institut, Austria. Sept. 2009

The Twists and Turns of Bio-Social Thought.

Job Talk at New-York University. Feb. 2008

Ars, Scientia et Historia: Marc Bloch’s The Historian’s Craft.

The University of Chicago. Oct. 2006

Charles Gide & l’École Nouvelle.

Max Planck Institut für Wissenchaftsgeschichte, Berlin. Dec. 2005

The Evolutionary Thought of Friedrich August von Hayek.

Cabinet of Natural History, The University of Cambridge. Nov. 2004

Individual Freedom, Capitalism and Evolutionary Biology in the Chicago School of Economics.

Florida State University. April 2004

The Appeal of the Organic Metaphor in Spencerism.

History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Nov. 2003

The Diffusion of Spencerism and its Political Interpretations in France and Italy.

The Linnean Society, London. Sept. 2003

Evolution and Politics (I-II): Session organiser and speaker.

International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Vienna. July 2003

Scientific Socialism: A Case Study in the Diffusion of Spencerism in Late Nineteenth Century Italy.

Rockefeller University. New-York, April 2003

La diffusione dello Spencerismo in Italia.

Università di Bologna. July 2002