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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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