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** Forwarded by Esther-Mirjam Sent for Albert Jolink <[log in to unmask]> ** 
 
The Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics will organize a 
two day conference on the topic 'Realism and Economics,' on the 
occassion of Uskali Maki's inauguration at the Erasmus University 
Rotterdam, 14-15 November 1997. The final program of the conference is  
attached below. Information and registration forms are available through  
Ms Loes van Dijk ([log in to unmask] or +31-10-4088967) or visit our  
Website at http://www.eur.nl/fw/philecon. 
 
Fact or Fiction? 
Perspectives on Realism and Economics 1997 
 
Friday, 14 November 
 
9:30 - 10:00 Registration and coffee 
 
10:00 - 10:10 
H.J. van der Molen (Chairman of the Executive Board of Erasmus University) 
Opening of the conference 
 
10:10 - 12:00 
Mark Blaug (University of Exeter) "Ugly currents in modern economics" 
Uskali Maki (Erasmus University Rotterdam) "Some non-reasons for 
non-realism in/about economics" 
Chair Albert Jolink 
 
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch 
 
13:30 - 15:10 
Nancy Cartwright (London School of Economics) "The limits of causal order, 
from economics to physics" 
Kevin Hoover (University of California at Davis) "Econometrics and reality" 
Chair Maarten Janssen 
 
15:10 - 15:30 Break 
 
15:30 - 18:00 
Deirdre McCloskey (University of Iowa) "Why we don't need realism if we 
have rhetoric" 
Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham) "In the world and of the world: 
realism and the history of economic thought" 
Wade Hands (University of Puget Sound) "Social realism in contemporary 
metascience" 
Chair Arjo Klamer 
 
Dinner 7pm 
 
Saturday, 15 November 
 
9:00 - 10:40 
Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia) "Self-contained worlds: The 
status of models in economics" 
Mary Morgan (London School of Economics and the University of Amsterdam) 
"Models, stories and the economic world" 
Chair Eric van Damme 
 
10:40 - 11:00 Break 
 
11:00 - 12:40 
Philip Pettit (Australian National University and Columbia University) 
"Rational choice, functional selection and empty black boxes" 
Ilkka Niiniluoto (University of Helsinki) "Truthlikeness and economic theories" 
Chair Theo Kuipers 
 
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch 
 
14:00 - 15:40 
Shaun Hargreaves Heap (University of East Anglia) "Reality of common cultures" 
Raimo Tuomela (Academy of Finland) "Collective acceptance and collective 
attitudes: On the social construction of social reality" 
Chair John Groenewegen 
 
15:40 - 16:00 Break 
 
16:00 - 17:40 
Neil DeMarchi (Duke University) "The historically experimental Mill" 
Bruce Caldwell (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) "Hayek and 
cultural evolution" 
Chair Jack Vromen 
 
17:40 - 18:00 
Conclusion 
 
Dinner 7:30 pm 
 
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dr. Albert Jolink 
Erasmus University Rotterdam 
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics 
 
 
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