Reflection without rules: economic methodology and contemporary science theory / D Wade Hands

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Economic Methodology; 1.2 Contemporary Science Theory; 1.3 Changing the Subject; 1.4 A Reader's Guide; 2 The Methodological Tradition in Economics; 2.1 The Millian Tradition in Economic Methodology; 2.1.1 John Stuart Mill and the Method A Priori; 2.1.2 The Millian Tradition in the Nineteenth Century; 2.1.3 Robbins on the Nature and Significance of Economics; 2.1.4 Austrian Economic Methodology; 2.2 Variations on Positivist Themes; 2.2.1 Hutchison on the Significance of the Basic Postulates. 2.2.2 Friedman on the Methodology of Positive Economics2.2.3 Samuelson and Operationalism in Economics; 3 The Breakdown of the Received View within the Philosophy of Science; 3.1 The Received View within the Philosophy of Science; 3.1.1 Logical Positivism; 3.1.2 Logical Empiricism; 3.1.3 Popperian Falsificationism; 3.1.4 Self-Sewn Seeds of Destruction; 3.2 The Attack on the Received View; 3.2.1 Quine and the Problems of Empiricism; 3.2.2 Kuhn and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions; 3.2.3 Two Core Difficulties: Theory-ladenness; 3.3 First Round Responses. 3.3.1 Lakatos and the Quasi-Historical Move3.3.2 Realist and Empiricist Moves; 3.4 Setting the Stage for the Naturalistic Turn; 4 The Naturalistic Turn; 4.1 Naturalizing Epistemology; 4.1.1 Naturalizing Knowledge; 4.1.2 Quine's Naturalism; 4.2 Psychology and the Cognitive Approach to Knowledge; 4.2.1 Cognitive Science and Epistemology; 4.2.2 H.A. Simon and Human Knowledge; 4.3 Encouragement from Darwin: Evolutionary Epistemology; 4.3.1 Biology and Human Knowledge; 4.3.2 Popperian Evolutionary Epistemology; 4.4 Eliminative Materialism and the Philosophy of Mind; 5 The Sociological Turn. 5.1 Society and Scientific Knowledge5.1.1 Science and Society; 5.1.2 The Marxist Tradition in Science Studies; 5.1.3 The Mertonian Tradition in Science Studies; 5.2 The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge; 5.2.1 The Strong Program; 5.2.2 Social Constructivism; 5.2.3 Contemporary Developments; 5.3 Nature, Society, SSK, and Economics; 5.3.1 Epistemological Chicken: The Debate; 5.3.2 SSK and Economics; 6 Pragmatism, Discourse, and Situatedness; 6.1 The Pragmatic Turn; 6.1.1 Peirce, Dewey, and Classical Pragmatism; 6.1.2 Classical Pragmatism and Economics; 6.2 Neopragmatism and the Discursive Turn. 6.2.1 Rorty, Neopragmatism, and Science as Discourse6.2.2 Economics, Neopragmatism, and Rhetoric; 6.3 Feminist Epistemology and Economics; 7 Recent Developments in Economic Methodology; 7.1 The Popperian Tradition; 7.1.1 Tensions within Popperian Methodology; 7.1.2 The Lakatosian Turn; 7.1.3 Critical Rationalism and Economics; 7.2 The Millian Tradition; 7.2.1 The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics; 7.2.2 Economics, Capacities, and Tendencies; 7.3 Realist Themes; 7.3.1 Critical Realism; 7.3.2 Realism and Anti-Realism in Economics; 7.4 Cognitive and Semantic Themes.