Popper and Economic Methodology - Contemporary Challenges

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Explores a number of major themes central to the work of Karl Popper. Including expert contributions from thinkers such as Tony Lawson! Vela Velupillai and John McCall! this book documents the tensions that have resulted from Popperian thought. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: &apos, Thomas (National University of Ireland Boylan, Thomas A. O&apos Boylan, Thomas A. O''''gorman Boylan, Thomas O''''gorman Boylan, BOYLAN THOMAS O GORMAN PASC, Paschal Francis gorman
• Assisted by: Thomas Boylan (Editor), Thomas (National University of Ireland Boylan (Editor), Thomas A. Boylan (Editor), Boylan Thomas (Editor), Paschal O'Gorman (Editor), Paschal (National University of Ireland O'Gorman (Editor), Paschal F. O'Gorman (Editor), Paschal Francis O'Gorman (Editor), O'Gorman Paschal (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.09.2007
• EAN: 9780415323390
• ISBN: 978-0-415-32339-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology; Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Economic theory & philosophy, Political Economy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Economic theory and philosophy