L'individualismo metodologico e la nascita delle Scienze Sociali: Published in Sociologia n. 2/2015. Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali. Virtuosità e corruzione dell'individualismo

The authors most associated with the theory of voluntary cooperation all share the characteristic of having adopted methodological individualism. This method goes hand in hand with the idea of cultural evolutionism and the birth of social science. It operates with an “ignorant and fallible” individual and brings to the relinquishment of the “privileged point of view on the world”. This is the first prerequisite for the activation of a free and extensive process of exploration of the unknown and the correction of errors.