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=46act or Fiction? Conference on Perspectives on Realism and Economics 
 
November 14 - 15, 1997 
 
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics 
Erasmus University Rotterdam 
 
The issue to be addressed by the conference is one of the most important 
methodological issues in economics and one of the major issues in the 
philosophy of science: how theories relate to reality and what this reality 
consists of. 
 
Speakers/University: Topics 
 
Roger Backhouse/University of Birmingham: In this world and of this world: 
the rhetoric of economics and the place of economists in society 
 
Mark Blaug/University of Exeter: Ugly currents in modern economics 
 
Bruce Caldwell/University of North Carolina: Hayek and cultural evolution 
 
Nancy Cartwright/London School of Economics: How can economics make do with 
false theories? 
 
Neil DeMarchi/Duke University: The historically experimental Mill 
 
Wade Hands/University of Puget Sound: Social realism in contemporary 
metascience 
 
Shaun Hargreaves Heap/University of East Anglia: What is a common culture? 
 
Kevin Hoover/University of California: Econometrics and reality 
 
Deirdre McCloskey/University of Iowa: Why we don't need realism if we have 
rhetoric? 
 
Uskali M=E4ki/Erasmus University Rotterdam: What kind of realism does 
economics need? 
 
Mary Morgan/LSE and the University of Amsterdam: Models, stories and the 
economic world 
 
Ilkka Niiniluoto/University of Helsinki: Theoretical reference, charity, 
and truthlikeness 
 
Philip Pettit/Australian National University: The elusive egoism of homo 
economicus 
 
Robert Sugden/University of East Anglia: Self-contained worlds: the status 
of theoretical models in economics 
 
Raimo Tuomela/Academy of Finland: Collective acceptance and collective 
attitudes 
 
Requests for further information and/or conference registration (before 
November 1st) should be directed to: Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and 
Economics, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Telephone: 
+31(10)408 8967, Fax: +31(10)212 0448, E-mail: [log in to unmask] 
 
Sponsored by Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 
 
 
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