Philosophy and Economics I: Methods and Models

"Philosophy and Economics I", treats "Methods and Models" of "Economic Philosophy". "Philosophy and Economics II" deals with "Morals". In both cases an effort to integrate many strands of modern philosophy and economics via decision theoretic language is made. Regardless of this decision theoretic background the treatment is non-technical. The aspiration is to sketch some tools that may be used in search of what philosophers call a "wide reflective equilibrium" on foundational matters of economics as well as of philosophy. The presentation will enable an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate student from fields like, philosophy, economics, law (legal philosophy and law & economics), political science and sociology to use the tools, arguments and paradigm examples provided to search for her or his own reflective equilibrium on matters of economic philosophy. Specialists from the aforementioned fields may find the text useful, too, as an accessible account of an increasingly elaborate intellectual discourse on "philosophy, politics and economics".