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Bert Mosselmans, PhD

Dean

Tel. +32 2 629 23 65 / Fax +32 2 629 36 37
E-mail: dean.vesalius@vub.ac.be

Subjects taught:

  • History of Western Philosophy
  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Business and Media Ethics
  • Industrial Organization and Competition

Education:

Ph.D. in Economics
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1999
Brussels, Belgium

B.A. M.A. Philosophy
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1994
Brussels, Belgium

B.Sc. M.Sc. Business Engineer
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1992
Brussels, Belgium

Research Interests:

History of Economics and History of Economic Thought

Select Publications:

Mosselmans, Bert & Ard Van Moer (2008). William Stanley Jevons and the Substitution of Similars, Elsevier Handbook of the History of Logic 

Mosselmans, B. (2007), "William Stanley Jevons", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Mosselmans, B. (2007), William Stanley Jevons and the Cutting Edge of Economics, London: Routledge.

Mosselmans, B. (2005), Adolphe Quetelet, the Average Man and the Development of Economic Methodology, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 12, Nr 4, Winter 2005, pp. 565-583.

Mosselmans, B. & G. Chryssides (2005), Unitarianism and Evolutionism in W. S. Jevons’ Thought, Faith and Freedom, Vol 58 Part 1, Spring and Summer, No 160, pp 18-44.

Mosselmans, Bert (2003). The Role of Institutions in Jevons’s Economics, History of Economic Ideas X/2002/3, pp. 47-60.

Jevons, William Stanley (2002). Reviews and Obituaries. 2 Volumes. With a general introduction by Takatoshi Inoue and headnotes by Bert Mosselmans. Bristol: Thoemmes Press.

Mosselmans, Bert (ed.) (2001). Kunst te koop? Over bruggen en breuken tussen kunst en economie. Roeselare: Roularta.

Mosselmans, Bert & Michael V. White. (2001). General Introduction, in: Collected Economic Writings of W. S. Jevons, 9 Volumes. London: Palgrave/MacMillan, pp. v-xxv.

Mosselmans, Bert (2000). The Omitted Mathematics of Hans von Mangoldt, Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 27, nr. 4/5, pp. 382-393.

Mosselmans, Bert & Ernest Mathijs (2000). Human Culture and Science: Equality and Inequality as Foundations of Scientific Thought, Foundations of Science, Vol. 5, nr. 3, pp. 339-378.

Mosselmans, Bert & Ernest Mathijs (1999). Jevons’s Music Manuscript and the Political Economy of Music, History of Political Economy, Vol. 31, Supplement "Economic Engagements with Art", pp. 121-156.

Mosselmans, Bert (1999). Reproduction and Scarcity: the Population Mechanism in Classicism and in the ‘Jevonian Revolution’, The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1999, pp. 34-57.

Mosselmans, Bert (1998). William Stanley Jevons and the Extent of Meaning in Logic and Economics, History and Philosophy of Logic, Vol. 19, pp. 83-99.

Mathijs, Ernest & Bert Mosselmans (1998). Van Daedalus tot Pygmalion. Kunst en mimesis in het antropometrische stadium, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, Vol. 60, nr. 3, pp. 521-553.

Languages:

Dutch, German,English, French

Nationality:

Belgian-German