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6Book ReviewsRussell Hardin,. Indeterminacy and Society.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. xii+166. $29.95 (review)Ethics 116 (2): 425-428. 2006.
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6Economic analysis and moral philosophyCambridge University Press. 1996.Understanding moral philosophy can help one to do economics better, and philosophers can learn by drawing on economic insights and analytical tools. This book argues that standard views of rationality lead economists to espouse questionable moral principles, and discusses methods of economic evaluation in terms of welfare and other moral criteria. It also contains a brief discussion of the relevance of social choice and game theory to philosophy. There is a glossary and at the end of each chapte…Read more
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5Health, Luck, and Justice, Shlomi Segall. Princeton University Press, 2010. x + 239 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 27 (2): 190-198. 2011.
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5Comparability of health statesPhilosophical Studies 1-13. forthcoming.Measuring an individual’s health states presupposes the ability to compare them. I maintain that our ability to compare quantities or magnitudes of health are severely limited. It is easier to compare values of health states, but those values are context dependent and often unreliable.
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5Book ReviewsPhilip. Kitcher, Science, Truth, and Democracy.New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 219. $27.50Ethics 113 (2): 423-428. 2003.
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4Markets and Medical DecisionsCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society. forthcoming.This essay argues for two conclusions. First, clinical decision-making is not best thought of as analogous to the purchase of other services, such as car repair. Health-care decision-making is far more difficult, collaborative, emotionally fraught, and subject to cognitive distortions. Second, the provision of health care should not be delegated to unregulated markets. Unlike other markets, there is no reason to expect health-care market outcomes to be efficient or fair or to promote individual …Read more
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3The Philosophy of Economics: An Anthology (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1984.This is a comprehensive anthology of works concerning the nature of economics as a science, including classic texts and essays exploring specific branches and schools of economics. Apart from the classics, most of the selections in the third edition are new, as are the introduction and bibliography. No other anthology spans the whole field and offers a comprehensive introduction to questions about economic methodology
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2The Paradoxes of Respectful Guidance: A Comment on Kenneth V. Iserson, “Do You Believe in Magic? Shove, Don’t Nudge: Advising Patients at the Bedside”Journal of Clinical Ethics 31 (1): 83-85. 2020.This commentary argues that the problems identified in Kenneth V. Iserson’s Essay, “Do you Believe in Magic? Shove, Don’t Nudge: Advising Patients at the Bedside,” are perennial difficulties to which there is no single simple solution. In particular, recent work in psychology offers little help to caregivers, who are in the difficult position of guiding the decisions of their patients while respecting them and ultimately deferring to their wishes.
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1And PreferenceIn Fabienne Peter (ed.), Rationality and Commitment, Oxford University Press, Usa. pp. 49. 2007.
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1Health and well-beingIn Miriam Solomon, Jeremy R. Simon & Harold Kincaid (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine, Routledge. 2016.
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1Evaluating social policyIn Harold Kincaid (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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1Capital, Profits, and Prices: An Essay in the Philosophy of EconomicsBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 34 (4): 387-392. 1983.
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1Third-Party Risks in Research: Should IRBs Address Them?IRB: Ethics & Human Research 29 (3). 2007.The risks to groups posed by research involving human beings—including genetics research—should be conceived of as a species of third-party risks. The important task of protecting third parties from the risks posed by the conduct and the findings of research should not be assigned to IRBs because they are not designed or equipped to handle such a broad responsibility. The serious problems raised by third-party risks require an integration of policy-making and regulation that is beyond the scope …Read more
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1A review of two books by Kevin D. Hoover: Causality in Macroeconomics and The Methodology of Empirical Macroeconomics (review)Journal of Economic Methodology 10 (2): 259-270. 2003.
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Physical Causation: Phil Dowe, Physical causation (Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction, and Decision Theory), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, pp. ix+ 224, price US $60.00, ISBN: 0-521-78049-7 hbk (review)Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 33 (4): 717-724. 2002.
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E. Roy Weintraub. How Economics Became a Mathematical SciencePhilosophia Mathematica 11 (3): 354-357. 2003.
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Deterministic causation of probabilitiesCommunication and Cognition. Monographies 31 (4): 365-390. 1998.
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Economic Models: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Capital TheoryDissertation, Columbia University. 1978.Chapter 5 is an essay on the methodology of equilibrium theory. In the course of examining recent controversies concerning lawlike claims and "assumptions" in economic theory, I reach a position similar to J. S. Mill's. Neo-classical economics is what Mill would call "a separate science." It follows a deductive method, since its basic laws supported by everyday experience. In its general equilibrium formulation, equilibrium theory possesses, however, no explanatory worth and very little explanat…Read more
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Philosophy of the behavioral and social sciences: Philosophy of the cognitive sciences / William Bechtel and Mitchell Herschbach. Philosophy of psychology / Edouard Machery. Philosophy of sociology / Daniel Little. Philosophy of economics (review)In Fritz Allhoff (ed.), Philosophies of the Sciences, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.
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London School of EconomicsDepartment of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific MethodProfessor (Part-time)
Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Social Science |