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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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238Motives and Markets in Health CareJournal of Practical Ethics 1 (2): 64-84. 2013.The truth about health care policy lies between two exaggerated views: a market view in which individuals purchase their own health care from profit maximizing health-care firms and a control view in which costs are controlled by regulations limiting which treatments health insurance will pay for. This essay suggests a way to avoid on the one hand the suffering, unfairness, and abandonment of solidarity entailed by the market view and, on the other hand, to diminish the inflexibility and ineffic…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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20Experimenting on Models and in the World (review)Journal of Economic Methodology 15 (2): 209-216. 2008.
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24Racionalidad, bienestar y economía normativaRevista Internacional de Filosofía Política 12 45-55. 1998.
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53Constructive empiricism contestedPacific Philosophical Quarterly 63 (1): 21-28. 1982.Constructive empiricism, Bas van fraassen's new variety of anti-Realism, Maintains that science aims at empirically adequate, Rather than true theories and that, In fully accepting a theory, One should believe only that it is empirically adequate. A theory is empirically adequate just in case it has a model in which all observable phenomena may be embedded. I challenge van fraassen's main arguments and argue that the observable/unobservable distinction will not bear the weight that van fraassen …Read more
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9Why Look Under the Hood?In Daniel M. Hausman (ed.), Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology, Cambridge University Press. pp. 70-73. 1992.
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25Price Huw, Corry Richard (Eds.), Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited. Oxford University Press (2007), pp. 403+ix, $35, 978-0-19-927819- (review)Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 39 (1): 231-233. 2008.
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13Price Huw, Corry Richard (eds.), Causation, physics, and the constitution of reality: Russell's republic revisited. Oxford university press (2007), pp. 403+IX, $35, 978-0-19-927819- (review)Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 2007.
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123Discussion. The impossibility of interpersonal utility comparisons - a replyMind 106 (421): 99-100. 1997.
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69Many questions concerning health involve values. How well is a health system performing? How should resources be allocated between the health system and other uses or among competing healthrelated uses? How should the costs of health services be distributed among members of a population? Who among those in need of transplants should receive scarce organs? What is the best way to treat particular patients? Although many kinds of expertise bear on these questions, values play a large role in answe…Read more
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95Hedonism and welfare economicsEconomics and Philosophy 26 (3): 321-344. 2010.This essay criticizes the proposal recently defended by a number of prominent economists that welfare economics be redirected away from the satisfaction of people's preferences and toward making people happy instead. Although information about happiness may sometimes be of use, the notion of happiness is sufficiently ambiguous and the objections to identifying welfare with happiness are sufficiently serious that welfare economists are better off using preference satisfaction as a measure of welf…Read more
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52Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis want to redirect egalitarianism away from redistribution of income and toward redistribution of assets, particularly productive assets. <1> Their main reason, apart from the fact that income redistribution is so obviously dead in the political waters, is that income redistribution lowers productivity and competitiveness, while asset redistribution raises these, and in the long run the welfare of the worst-off depends more on increasing productivity than it does o…Read more
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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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13The 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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126Sympathy, 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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London School of EconomicsDepartment of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific MethodProfessor (Part-time)
Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Social Science |