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1415 Tendencies, laws, and the composition of economic causesIn Uskali Mäki (ed.), The Economic World View: Studies in the Ontology of Economics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 293. 2001.
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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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48Protecting groups from genetic researchBioethics 22 (3). 2008.ABSTRACT Genetics research, like research in sociology and anthropology, creates risks for groups from which research subjects are drawn. This paper considers what sort of protection for groups from the risks of genetics research should be provided and by whom. The paper categorizes harms by distinguishing process‐related from outcome‐related harms and by distinguishing two kinds of group harms. It argues that calls for community engagement are justified with respect to some kinds of harms, but …Read more
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12The inexact and separate philosophy of economics: an interview with Daniel HausmanErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 4 (1): 67. 2011.
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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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19Liberalism, Welfare Economics, and Freedom*: DANIEL M. HAUSMANSocial Philosophy and Policy 10 (2): 172-197. 1993.With the collapse of the centrally controlled economies and the authoritarian governments of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics, political leaders are, with appreciable public support, espousing “liberal” economic and political transformations—the reinstitution of markets, the securing of civil and political rights, and the establishment of representative governments. But those supporting reform have many aims, and the liberalism to which they look for political guidance is not an un…Read more
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125Sympathy, commitment, and preferenceEconomics and Philosophy 21 (1): 33-50. 2005.While very much in Sen's camp in rejecting revealed preference theory and emphasizing the complexity, incompleteness, and context dependence of preference and the intellectual costs of supposing that all the factors influencing choice can be captured by a single notion of preference, this essay contests his view that economists should recognize multiple notions of preference. It argues that Sen's concerns are better served by embracing a single conception of preference and insisting on the need …Read more
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35Is falsificationism unpractised or unpractisable?Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (3): 313-319. 1985.
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345Preference satisfaction and welfare economicsEconomics and Philosophy 25 (1): 1-25. 2009.The tenuous claims of cost-benefit analysis to guide policy so as to promote welfare turn on measuring welfare by preference satisfaction and taking willingness-to-pay to indicate preferences. Yet it is obvious that people's preferences are not always self-interested and that false beliefs may lead people to prefer what is worse for them even when people are self-interested. So welfare is not preference satisfaction, and hence it appears that cost-benefit analysis and welfare economics in genera…Read more
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48Physical Causation (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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33The insufficiency of nomological explanationPhilosophical Quarterly 39 (154): 22-35. 1989.I argue that one cannot analyze scientific explanations adequately only in terms of logical relations among true propositions, Including natural laws. No pure conditional analysis of causation is possible either. I suggest that any adequate analysis of causation or explanation must bring in other factors such as time ordering or manipulability. David sanford's views are considered at length
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Deterministic causation of probabilitiesCommunication and Cognition. Monographies 31 (4): 365-390. 1998.
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19Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis, Matthew D. Adler. Oxford University Press, 2012, 634 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 28 (3): 435-443. 2012.Book Reviews Daniel M. Hausman, Economics and Philosophy, FirstView Article
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59Trust and trustworthiness, by Russell Hardin. Russell Sage foundation, 2002, XXI + 234 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 20 (1): 240-246. 2004.
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14Review of mark Sagoff, Price, Principle, and the Environment (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (2). 2005.
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66Confirming mainstream economic theoryTheoria 13 (2): 261-278. 1998.This essay is concerned with the special difficulties that arise in testing and appraising mainstream economic theory. I argue that, like other theories designed to apply to complex open systems, it is very hard to confirm mainsteam economics. Parts can be tested and appraised, but the theory is only very weakly supported by evidence
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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 |