| Título : | Beyond positivism : economic methodology in the twentieth century | | Tipo de documento: | texto impreso | | Autores: | Bruce J. Caldwell | | Editorial: | London : George Allen & Unwin | | Fecha de publicación: | 1985 | | Número de páginas: | x, 277 p. | | ISBN/ISSN/DL: | 0-04-330342-1 | | Idioma : | Inglés | | Temas: | ECONOMIA
EMPIRISMO
FILOSOFIA DE LA CIENCIA
METODOLOGIA
POSITIVISMO
SIGLO XX
| | Clasificación: | 330.1 | | Nota de contenido: | Introduction -- Twentieth century philosophy of science -- Logical positivism -- The Vienna Circle – The logical positivist program – Notes -- The positivist tradition matures: The emergence of logical empiricism – Introduction -- The search for a criterion of cognitive significance -- The status, structure, and function of theories and theoretical terms -- The nature of scientific explanation -- A representative logical empiricist – Notes -- The philosophical attack on logical empiricism -- Introduction -- Confirmation, induction, and Popper's methodological falsificationism -- Theories and theoretical terms -- The nature of scientific explanation – Summary – Notes -- Contemporary philosophy of science: The growth of knowledge tradition – Introduction -- Thomas Kuhn -- Paul K. Feyerabend -- Imre Lakatos -- Contemporary philosophy of science: A dilettante's review and commentary – Notes - Some essays on positivism and economic methodology -- Robbins versus Hutchison: The introduction of positivism in economic methodology -- Robbins's essay -- Robbins and the Austrians --Hutchison's introduction of positivism -- Philosophical evaluation -- The Austrian revival -- The inadequacy of the usual attacks on Austrian methodology -- Some doubts about falsificationism in economics -- The critique of Austrian methodology – Notes -- Hutchison versus Machlup: On indirect testing and the rationality postúlate -- Machlup's attack -- Hutchison's ambiguous response -- Philosophical evaluation -- The rationality postulate: An overview -- Some questions concerning the rationality postúlate -- Summary and conclusión – Notes -- Friedman's methodological instrumentalism -- Friedman's marketing masterpiece -- Philosophical evaluation -- A restatement: Friedman as a methodological instrumentalist -- The philosophical rejection of instrumentalism -- The methodological critique of Friedman's position -- Summary and conclusión – Notes -- Samuelson-operationalism, descriptivism, and explanation in economics -- Introduction -- Samuelson's operationalism and Machlup's critique -- An anachronistic view of scientific explanation -- Wong's critique of revealed preference theory -- Does explanation exist in economics? – Notes -- Provisional answers to some unsettled questions -- Is philosophy of science useful for understanding methodology? -- The benefits of understanding the philosophical issues -- Can philosophy of science make economic methodology better? -- Can other approaches be taken? – Notes -- Prescription, description, and theory appraisal -- Confirmation and falsificationism -- The theory choke problem and the growth of knowledge tradition -- The integration of prescription and description – Notes -- Confirmation and falsificationism in economics -- Confirmationism and the practice of economists -- Falsificationism and the rhetoric of methodologists – Notes -- A program for economic methodologists: methodological pluralism -- Methodological pluralism -- Answers to some possible objections – Notes -- Notes for further reading: Philosophy of science -- Notes for further reading: Methodology of economics -- Bibliography: Philosophy of science -- Bibliography: Methodology of economics – Index. | | Enlace permanente a este registro: | https://opac.um.edu.uy/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98013 |
Beyond positivism : economic methodology in the twentieth century [texto impreso] / Bruce J. Caldwell . - London : George Allen & Unwin, 1985 . - x, 277 p. ISSN : 0-04-330342-1 Idioma : Inglés | Temas: | ECONOMIA
EMPIRISMO
FILOSOFIA DE LA CIENCIA
METODOLOGIA
POSITIVISMO
SIGLO XX
| | Clasificación: | 330.1 | | Nota de contenido: | Introduction -- Twentieth century philosophy of science -- Logical positivism -- The Vienna Circle – The logical positivist program – Notes -- The positivist tradition matures: The emergence of logical empiricism – Introduction -- The search for a criterion of cognitive significance -- The status, structure, and function of theories and theoretical terms -- The nature of scientific explanation -- A representative logical empiricist – Notes -- The philosophical attack on logical empiricism -- Introduction -- Confirmation, induction, and Popper's methodological falsificationism -- Theories and theoretical terms -- The nature of scientific explanation – Summary – Notes -- Contemporary philosophy of science: The growth of knowledge tradition – Introduction -- Thomas Kuhn -- Paul K. Feyerabend -- Imre Lakatos -- Contemporary philosophy of science: A dilettante's review and commentary – Notes - Some essays on positivism and economic methodology -- Robbins versus Hutchison: The introduction of positivism in economic methodology -- Robbins's essay -- Robbins and the Austrians --Hutchison's introduction of positivism -- Philosophical evaluation -- The Austrian revival -- The inadequacy of the usual attacks on Austrian methodology -- Some doubts about falsificationism in economics -- The critique of Austrian methodology – Notes -- Hutchison versus Machlup: On indirect testing and the rationality postúlate -- Machlup's attack -- Hutchison's ambiguous response -- Philosophical evaluation -- The rationality postulate: An overview -- Some questions concerning the rationality postúlate -- Summary and conclusión – Notes -- Friedman's methodological instrumentalism -- Friedman's marketing masterpiece -- Philosophical evaluation -- A restatement: Friedman as a methodological instrumentalist -- The philosophical rejection of instrumentalism -- The methodological critique of Friedman's position -- Summary and conclusión – Notes -- Samuelson-operationalism, descriptivism, and explanation in economics -- Introduction -- Samuelson's operationalism and Machlup's critique -- An anachronistic view of scientific explanation -- Wong's critique of revealed preference theory -- Does explanation exist in economics? – Notes -- Provisional answers to some unsettled questions -- Is philosophy of science useful for understanding methodology? -- The benefits of understanding the philosophical issues -- Can philosophy of science make economic methodology better? -- Can other approaches be taken? – Notes -- Prescription, description, and theory appraisal -- Confirmation and falsificationism -- The theory choke problem and the growth of knowledge tradition -- The integration of prescription and description – Notes -- Confirmation and falsificationism in economics -- Confirmationism and the practice of economists -- Falsificationism and the rhetoric of methodologists – Notes -- A program for economic methodologists: methodological pluralism -- Methodological pluralism -- Answers to some possible objections – Notes -- Notes for further reading: Philosophy of science -- Notes for further reading: Methodology of economics -- Bibliography: Philosophy of science -- Bibliography: Methodology of economics – Index. | | Enlace permanente a este registro: | https://opac.um.edu.uy/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=98013 |
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