The next edition of the Sedes Sapientiae Symposium is on Mary and the philosophy of economics. It takes place at the Irish college in Leuven, December 12th-13th. Registration is open until December 5th.
Mary and the philosophy of economics
On the Economics of the Eucharist: the time and value of Calvary as a missing piece of Max Weber’s theory
Chapter published in Religion and Economy. Historical, contemporary and philosophical perspectives. Edited by Erik Sporon Fiedler, published by Edizioni Quasar in the Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. Supplementum, 60, p. 133-145.
Towards a metaphysics of usury
Article published in a special issue of the Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion. Volume 5.1 (special issue, 2025, forthcoming)
On the metaphysics and economics of the Trinity
Upcoming presentation at the ETF/EUR conference on ‘Human nature and community‘.
Call for papers: Dialogue between Economics and Theology on Human Nature & Community
Just spreading the word about this wonderful upcoming conference:
On June 19 and 20, 2025, the Erasmus Economics & Theology Institute (EETI, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands), the Institute of Leadership and Social Ethics (ILSE, ETF Leuven, Belgium) and the Economic Humanist Group will organize an international academic conference addressing this theme, focusing on the dialogue between economics and Christian theology. The conference will provide an opportunity to engage with and learn from a diverse group of global leading thinkers in these fields. Scholars are invited to submit an abstract for a paper. The full Call for Papers can be found through the link below.
Lees verder “Call for papers: Dialogue between Economics and Theology on Human Nature & Community”Sur les fondements métaphysiques et les contours théologiques des sciences sociales : réalisme, nominalisme et création contingente
[On the metaphysical foundations and theological contours of the social sciences: realism, nominalism and contingent creation] Forthcoming in: Le réalisme en sciences sociales, ed. Olga Peniaz et Hélène Terrom, Les éditions du Cerf, Patrimoines.
Lees verder “Sur les fondements métaphysiques et les contours théologiques des sciences sociales : réalisme, nominalisme et création contingente”Economy of Francesco Academy
Coming academic year I’ll be a Researcher Fellow of the EoF Academy. It is an initiative to support research into and concrete practice of an alternative economic system, inspired by the Franciscan school.
Towards a metaphysics of usury: flourishing in time or eternity?
Upcoming presentation for the ILSE Conference “Economics and Human Flourishing: (What) Can Economists Learn from Theology?”
Lees verder “Towards a metaphysics of usury: flourishing in time or eternity?”Repliek op: Belastingen heffen als evenwichtskunst: Lessius’ inzichten over fiscale rechtvaardigheid
Repliek op Erik De Bom over Lessius voor de studiedag van de Antwerp Tax Academy op 23 februari.
CFP: Conference “Economics and Human Flourishing: (What) Can Economists Learn from Theology?”
Just spreading the word (and call for papers) for an interesting upcoming conference: June 30-July 1 2023, ILSE, ETF Leuven.
On the metaphysics of usury
Presentation for the online colloquium ‘Time, money and God‘, July 8, 2022.
Weber, time and the economics of the eucharist
Upcoming presentation for the 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion: God, Time and Change, September 3-5, 2022, Oxford, UK.
Lees verder “Weber, time and the economics of the eucharist”Time, Money and God: Antwerp Summer University
Upcoming Summer University at the University of Antwerp, July 4-8, 2022, on the ethical, metaphysical and religious aspects of the usury debate in relationship to sustainable finance.
Lees verder “Time, Money and God: Antwerp Summer University”
Realism, nominalism and contingent creation: on the metaphysical foundations and theological contours of the social sciences
Guest lecture for a colloquium at the Université d’Angers and the Université Catholique de l’Ouest
The mystery and metaphysics of capital
Presentation at the 2020 International Social Ontology Conference to be held online. July 13–16, 2020, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Fittingness, affordances, providence
Abstract accepted for the ETF conference Towards an Environmental Ethic of ‘Fittingness’ (2-3 October, online)
Freedom, counterfactuals and economic laws: further comments on Machaj and Hülsmann
Bauwens, M. (2017). ‘Freedom, counterfactuals and economic laws: further comments on Machaj and Hülsmann’. The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 20 (4), 366-372.
A bold metaphysics for the social sciences
29/09/2017 – 30/09/2017
België
(together with Matteo Scozia), International symposium ‘Worlds of Entanglement,’ Free University of Brussels (VUB)
A bold metaphysics for the social sciences
The ontology of fractional reserve banking
Bauwens, M. (2017). ‘The ontology of fractional reserve banking.’ Journal of Institutional Economics, 13 (2), 447-466.
On the metaphysics of economics and purgatory
Bauwens, M. (2017). ‘On the metaphysics of economics and purgatory’ in Purgatory: Philosophical Dimensions, ed. Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte and Benjamin W. McCraw, Palgrave MacMillan, 263-280.
Developing Economic Theology: On the Metaphysics of Economics and Purgatory
29/08/2017
België
Faith in the academy, theology among the disciplines, Postgraduate Conference of the Society for the Study of Theology: Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven
Developing Economic Theology: On the Metaphysics of Economics and Purgatory
Falling Walls Lab Leuven: Fake social science
Falling walls lab Leuven, 15 March 2017, 2nd place
Michaël Bauwens 