Ippoliti Emiliano, Chen Ping. Methods and Finance: A Unifying View on Finance, Mathematics and Philosophy

Springer, 2017. — 199 p. — (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics). — ISBN10: 3319498711.The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on finance, with a special focus on stock markets. It presents new methodologies for analyzing stock markets' behavior and discusses theories and methods of finance from different angles, such as the mathematical, physical and philosophical ones. The book, which aims at philosophers and economists alike, represents a rare yet important attempt to unify the externalist with the internalist conceptions of finance.
Inside...
Part The View from Outside:
Methods and Finance: A View from Outside.
Mathematical Representation in Economics and Finance: Philosophical Preference, Mathematical Simplicity, and Empirical Relevance.
Behind the Price: On the Role of Agent’s Reflexivity in Financial Market Microstructure.
On the Description of Financial Markets: A Physicist’s Viewpoint.
Research Habits in Financial Modeling: The Case of Non-normality of Market Returns in the 1970s and the 1980s.
Super-Exponential Bubbles and Expectations: Theory, Simulations and Empirics.
Part The View from Inside:
Methods and Finance. A View From Inside.
Contemporary Finance as a Critical Cognitive Niche: An Epistemological Outlook on the Uncertain Effects of Contrasting Uncertainty.
The Sciences of Finance, Their Boundaries, Their Values.
Quantification Machines and Artificial Agents in Global Finance: Historical-Phenomenological Perspectives from Philosophy and Sociology of Technology and Money.
Dark Data. Some Methodological Issues in Finance.