Ontology of Finance
Rivista di Estetica, n. 84 (3/2023), anno LXIII
Although, in social ontology, the nature of money has been extensively studied, little has been said about the nature of other entities populating the financial world, such as debts, economic exchanges, and price drops.
This special issue of Rivista di Estetica gathers novel research papers dealing precisely with some ontological problems pertaining to the finance landscape. While these papers do not exhaust the issues associated with the ontology of finance, they certainly contribute to improving our comprehension of the financial world, which is crucial for both theoretical and practical reasons.
Contributions
Gloria Sansò, Barry Smith, Ontology of Finance: an introduction
Emiliano Ippoliti, What is a financial crash? Some remarks on the ontological and epistemic preconditions
Jack Mosse, Economic performativity: beyond binaries?
Simon Derpmann, The walking debt – On the morals of ownership in debt and its alienability
Gloria Sansò, Ownership, preferences and offers
Noriaki Okamoto, Hierarchy and heterarchy in (impact) finance: an ontological analysis
Dean Rickles, From Babylon to Bitcoin: some philosophical reflections on the ontology of money
Varia
Davide Grasso, Heritage, community and future generations. The transgenerational quest for justice
Graham Harman, Philosophy against literalism
Martino Manca, Per una fenomenologia dell’iper-lettura
Dario Piumetti, Il problema della significazione del nulla in Anselmo d’Aosta
Recensioni
Filippo De Pieri, Esperienza, efficacia, pubblico: una lettura di Critica della ragione progettuale