
Popper and Economic Methodology
Contemporary Challenges
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-415-75868-0 (ISBN)
Description
This new book, under the impressive editorship of Thomas Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman, explores a number of major themes central to the work of Karl Popper.
The tensions that have resulted from Popperian thought are well documented. How can mainstream orthodox economics be falsifiable while privileging its core of rationality as unquestionable? This book includes expert contributions from thinkers such as Tony Lawson, K. Vela Velupillai and John McCall, who discuss this issue with renewed academic rigour.
The tensions that have resulted from Popperian thought are well documented. How can mainstream orthodox economics be falsifiable while privileging its core of rationality as unquestionable? This book includes expert contributions from thinkers such as Tony Lawson, K. Vela Velupillai and John McCall, who discuss this issue with renewed academic rigour.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
294 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-75868-0 (9780415758680)
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Persons
Thomas A. Boylan is Personal Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Paschal O'Gorman is Personal Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Content
Introduction 1. Popper, Economic Methodology and Contemporary Philosophy of Science 2. Situational Analysis and Popper's Three World Thesis: The Quest for Understanding 3. Challenging Popperian Rationality: Wittgenstein and Quine Reconsidered 4. Popper and Social Explanation 5. Metaphysics and Growth through Criticism 6. Conjectures on a Constructive Approach to Induction 7. Demystifying Induction and Falsification: Trans-Popperian Suggestions