Economics and the Philosophy of Science

Pbk, 252 p. Condition as new. Contents : Philosophy of Science: Rationality, Growth, Ignorance, Objectivity, and Criticism -- The Problems -- The Decline of Logical Positivism -- 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 -- The Popperian School -- Sir Karl Popper -- Hume's Problem, or the Problem of Induction -- Critical Rationalism and the Tie to Falsification -- Why Falsification Fails -- Imre Lakatos: Metaphysics Transformed into the Methodology of Scientific Research Programs -- The Revival of the Duhem Thesis -- Behind the Methodology of Scientific Research Programs -- Paul Feyerabend, the "Dadasoph," -- "Anything Goes!" and Proliferation -- What Feyerabend is Actually Against is Modern Education -- Why Feyerabend is Really a "Rationalist in Disguise," or Why Feyerabend Doesn't Deserve to be a "Darling of the Left," -- Dadasophia or Dadasophistry? -- William Bartley: Pancritical Rationalism -- Whither the History of Science? -- History and the Philosophy of Science -- Stephen Toulmin -- Norwood Russell Hanson -- Economics and the Philosophy of Science -- Philosophy's Influence on Economics: Early Exchanges -- Sir Karl Popper's Philosophy of the Social Sciences: etc, etc! [Economics Philosophy Science Philosophy] t97 / m15740.…