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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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241Motives 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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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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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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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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35Is falsificationism unpractised or unpractisable?Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (3): 313-319. 1985.
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148Preference 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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14Physical 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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34The 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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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 |