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Economics and the Philosophy of Science.
"Economists and other social scientists in this century have often supported economic arguments by referring to positions taken by philosophers of science. This important new book examines the reliability of this practice, while providing economists, social scientists, and historians with the n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART I: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: Rationality, Growth, Ignorance, Objectivity, and Criticism; 1. The Problems; 2. The Decline of Logical Positivism; 3. The Pendulum Swings in the Other Direction: Sociological Explanations in Science; Michael Polanyi: Personal and Tacit Knowledge; Ludwik Fleck: Denkkollektiv and Denkstil; Thomas Kuhn's Scientific Revolutions; 4. The Popperian School; Sir Karl Popper; Imre Lakatos: Metaphysics Transformed into the Methodology of Scientific; Paul Feyerabend, the ""Dadasoph, "" 44; William Bartley: Pancritical Rationalism; 5. Whither the History of Science?
- History and the Philosophy of ScienceStephen Toulmin; Norwood Russell Hanson; 6. Conclusions; PART II: ECONOMICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE; 7. Philosophy's Influence on Economics: Early Exchanges; 8. Sir Karl Popper's Philosophy of the Social Sciences: A Disjointed Whole; Economics: Queen of the Social Sciences; The Polemical Element: The Case Against Historicism; Rationality and Situational Logic; Why Falsification in Economics Fails; The Neglected Messages: Clarity and Criticism as Objective Method; 9. Lakatos and Kuhn: Science as Consensus.
- Why Economicus Academicus Chose Lakatos as His DarlingSemantics Revisited: How Paradigm and Research Program Have Come to Mean Anything and Everything; Paradigms and SRPs Applied; The Drive to Be Normal Scientists
- Appendix I: A Short History of the Is-Ought Problem; Appendix II: Economists Whose First Work or Works Deal with Methodological and/or Philosophical Topics; Bibliography; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; Y; Z.