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The "Conference on Economic Methodology and the Philosophy of Science"
will convene in two weeks at the University of New Hampshire, which is
a very long jog or very short flight from Montreal.
Time and place:
15-17 June 1998
University of New Hampshire, Durham NH
Sponsors:
Review of Political Economy
International Network for Economic Method
Center for the Humanities at UNH
The preliminary program below is from co-ordinator
Steve Pressman <[log in to unmask]>
Monmouth University & University of New Hampshire
Paul Wendt
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Preliminary Program of the
CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY AND
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
MONDAY, June 15
Session 1 (1 pm--3 pm)
Chair: Steven Pressman, Monmouth University & University of New Hampshire
Papers:
Tom Mayer, University of California at Davis
Correct Conclusions from Incorrect Assumptions?
Roger Backhouse, University of Birmingham
Informal Mathematics
Coffee Break (3 pm--3:15 pm)
Session 2 (3:15 pm--5:15 pm)
Chair: Bruce Caldwell, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Papers:
John Davis, Marquette University
Rational Choice Theory as Cognitive Science
Alex Viskovatoff, Central European University
The Neoclassical vs. The Inference--Theoretic Concepts of Rationality
Dinner
Keynote Speaker: Sara Kuhn, University of Massachusetts at Lowell,
who will talk about her father, Thomas Kuhn
TUESDAY, June 16
Session 3 (9:00 am--11:00 am)
Chair: Ruth Sample, University of New Hampshire
Papers:
Sheila Dow, University of Stirling
Hume and Critical Realism
Tom Warke, Sheffield University
Reducing the Dimensionality of Bentham's Utility Concept in Economics and
in Philosophy
Coffee Break (11:00 am--11:15 am)
Session 4 (11:15 am--12:15 pm)
Chair: James Wible, University of New Hampshire
Papers:
Leda Maria Paulani, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
What are the Methodological Grounds of the New Institutional Economics?
Lunch (12:15 pm--1:15 pm)
Session 5 (1:15 pm--3:15 pm)
Chair: Steven Pressman, Monmouth University and University of New
Hampshire
Papers:
Edward J. Nell, New School for Social Research
Transformational Growth and the Philosophy of Economics
Ingrid Rima, Temple University
Transformation versus Equilibrium: The Central Methodological Issue of Our
Generation
Coffee Break (3:00 pm--3:15 pm)
Session 6 (3:30 pm--5:30 pm)
Chair: Warren Samuels, Michigan State University
Papers:
Lucas Wilson, Mount Holyoke College
Deweyan Pragmatism and Realism in Economic Methodology
James Wible, University of New Hampshire
Towards a New Economics of Science: Some Consequences of Putting Economics
into Science Studies
WEDNESDAY, June 17
Session 7 (9:00 am--11:00 am)
Chair: Sheila Dow, University of Stirling
Papers:
Paul Downward, Sheffield University
Risk, Uncertainty and Inference in Post Keynesian Economics: A Realist
Commentary
Jochen Runde, Girton College
Information, Knowledge and Agency: The Information--Theoretic Approach and
the Austrians
Coffee Break (11:00 am--11:15 am)
Session 8 (11:15 am--12:15 pm)
Chair: John Davis, Marquette University
Paper:
Athol Fitzgibbon
The Microfoundations of Macroeconomics
Lunch (12:15 pm--1:15 pm)
Session 9 (1:15 pm--3:30 pm)
Chair: Maureen Sirois, University of New Hampshire
Papers:
Julie Nelson, Brandeis University
Philosophy, Methodology and Feminist Perspectives on Family and Work
Drucilla Barker, Hollins College
Feminist Directions in Economic Philosophy and Methodology
Susan Feiner, University of Southern Maine
Feminism, Marxism and Economic Methodologies
Coffee Break (3:30 pm--3:45 pm)
Session 10 (3:45 pm--4:45 pm)
Chair: Gary Mongiovi, St. John's University
Papers:
Paul Lewis, Emmanuel College
The Role of Metaphor in a Realist Account of Economics
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