=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D HES= POSTING =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =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 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D FOOTER TO HES POSTING =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =46or information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]