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<p><p>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 Looks At The Reliability Of This Practice And, In The Process, Provides Economists, Social Scientists, And Historians With The Necessary Background To Discuss Methodological Matters With Authority. Redman First Presents An Accurate, Critical, Yet Neutral Survey Of The Modern Philosophy Of Science From The Vienna Circle To The Present, Focusing Particularly On Logical Positivism, Sociological Explanations Of Science (polanyi, Fleck, Kuhn), The Popper Family, And The History Of Science. She Then Deals With Economic Methodology In The Twentieth Century, Looking At A Wide Range Of Methodological Positions, Especially Those Supported By Positions From The Philosophy Of Science. She Considers The Myth Of The Feasibility Of Falsification In Economics And, Within The Context Of Its Significance For Economics, Discusses The Interpretation Of Kuhn's Philosophy Of Science As Consensus And The Danger Such A View Represents To Science. Appendices Review The History Of The Is-ought Dispute And List Economists Whos

Author

Redman, Deborah A.

Publisher

New York ; Oxford: Oxford University Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195082746

Subjects

Economics, Philosophy, Science