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41Biomedical Research, Neglected Diseases, and Well-Ordered ScienceTheoria 24 (3): 263-282. 2010.In this paper we make a proposal for reforming biomedical research that is aimed to align re-search more closely with the so-called fair-share principle according to which the proportions of global resources as-signed to different diseases should agree with the ratios of human suffering associated with those diseases.
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36Philosophy of Science in Practice: Nancy Cartwright and the nature of scientific reasoning. (edited book)Springer International Publishing. 2016.This volume reflects the ‘philosophy of science in practice’ approach and takes a fresh look at traditional philosophical problems in the context of natural, social, and health research. Inspired by the work of Nancy Cartwright that shows how the practices and apparatuses of science help us to understand science and to build theories in the philosophy of science, this volume critically examines the philosophical concepts of evidence, laws, causation, and models and their roles in the process of …Read more
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32Error in Economics: Towards a More Evidence–Based MethodologyRoutledge. 2007.What is the correct concept behind measures of inflation? Does money cause business activity or is it the other way around? Shall we stimulate growth by raising aggregate demand or rather by lowering taxes and thereby providing incentives to produce? Policy-relevant questions such as these are of immediate and obvious importance to the welfare of societies. The standard approach in dealing with them is to build a model, based on economic theory, answer the question for the model world and then a…Read more
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32IntroductionStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43 (4): 758-760. 2012.
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30Suppes’ probabilistic theory of causality and causal inference in economicsJournal of Economic Methodology 23 (3): 289-304. 2016.This paper examines Patrick Suppes’ probabilistic theory of causality understood as a theory of causal inference, and draws some lessons for empirical economics and contemporary debates in the foundations of econometrics. It argues that a standard method of empirical economics, multiple regression, is inadequate for most but the simplest applications, that the Bayes’ nets approach, which can be understood as a generalisation of Suppes’ theory, constitutes a considerable improvement but is still …Read more
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28ExplanationIn New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics., . 2008.Explaining socio-economic phenomena is one important aim of economics. There is very little agreement, however, on what precisely constitutes an adequate economic explanation. Starting from the very influential but defective ‘deductive-nomological model’ of explanation, this article describes and criticizes the major contemporary competitors for such an account (the probabilistic–causal, the mechanistic–causal and the unificationist models) and argues that none of them can by itself capture all …Read more
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25The methodology of positive economics: reflections on the Milton Friedman legacy, ed. Uskali Mäki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 382 pp (review)Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 3 (2): 103. 2010.
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22What are the drivers of induction? Towards a Material Theory+Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 83 (C): 8-16. 2020.
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22Rejoinder - Error in Economics. Towards a More Evidence-Based Methodology, Julian Reiss, Routledge, 2007, xxiv + 246 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 25 (2): 210-215. 2009.
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21Evidence-Based Economics: Issues and Some Preliminary AnswersAnalyse & Kritik 26 (2): 346-363. 2004.This paper presents an outline of a methodology of ‘evidence-based economics’. The question whether an economic statement is evidence-based must be answered on three different levels. The first level concerns measurement: it asks whether claims made about economic quantities such as inflation, unemployment, growth or poverty are justified by the data and measurement procedures. The second level concerns induction: it asks whether claims made about the relations between economic quantities (such …Read more
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18Philosophy of Economics, History ofIn Byron Kaldis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Sage Publications Ltd.. pp. 701-778. 2013.This encyclopedia is the first of its kind in bringing together philosophy and the social sciences. It is not only about the philosophy of the social sciences but, going beyond that, it is also about the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences. The subject of this encyclopedia is purposefully multi- and inter-disciplinary. Knowledge boundaries are both delineated and crossed over. The goal is to convey a clear sense of how philosophy looks at the social sciences and to mark out a…Read more
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16Contrefactuels, expériences de pensée, et conception singulariste de la relation causale en histoireLabyrinthe 39 113-127. 2012.L’analyse singulariste de la relation causale Dans l’un de ses textes les plus souvent lus, « Possibilité objective et causalité adéquate en histoire », Max Weber introduit ainsi la procédure de base de l’analyse singulariste des relations causales : L’attribution des effets aux causes prend place à travers un processus de pensée qui inclut une série d’abstractions. La première et la plus décisive a lieu quand nous concevons que l’une ou plusieurs des composantes causales sont modifiées dans ..
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16The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics (edited book)Routledge. 2019.The most fundamental questions of economics are often philosophical in nature, and philosophers have, since the very beginning of Western philosophy, asked many questions that current observers would identify as economic. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates at the intersection of philosophical and economic inquiry.It captures this field of countless exciting interconnections, affinities, and opportunities f…Read more
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14Hayek, logic, and the naturalistic fallacyJournal of the History of Economic Thought 28 (3): 359-370. 2006.
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12La contingencia de las teorías de causación y explicación: comentarios sobre Paul HumphreysEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 37 35-44. 2005.
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12Models, Representation, and Economic PracticeIn Ulrich Gähde, Stephan Hartmann & Jörn Henning Wolf (eds.), Models, Simulations, and the Reduction of Complexity, De Gruyter. pp. 107-116. 2013.
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8Contingency theories of causation and explanation: comments on Paul HumphreysEnrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofía 37 35. 2005.
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7Philosophy of Science in Practice (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2017.This volume reflects the ‘philosophy of science in practice’ approach and takes a fresh look at traditional philosophical problems in the context of natural, social, and health research. Inspired by the work of Nancy Cartwright that shows how the practices and apparatuses of science help us to understand science and to build theories in the philosophy of science, this volume critically examines the philosophical concepts of evidence, laws, causation, and models and their roles in the process of …Read more
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6Causation, Evidence, and InferenceRoutledge. 2015.In this book, Reiss argues in favor of a tight fit between evidence, concept and purpose in our causal investigations in the sciences. There is no doubt that the sciences employ a vast array of techniques to address causal questions such as controlled experiments, randomized trials, statistical and econometric tools, causal modeling and thought experiments. But how do these different methods relate to each other and to the causal inquiry at hand? Reiss argues that there is no "gold standard" in …Read more
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2Review of Kevin Hoover's Methodology of Empirical Macroeconomics (review)Economics and Philosophy 20 (1): 226-233. 2004.
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2Causation in the Sciences: An Inferentialist ApproachRoutledge. 2014.In this book, Reiss argues in favour of a tight fit between evidence, concept and purpose in our causal investigations in the sciences. There is no doubt that the sciences employ a vast array of techniques to address causal questions such as controlled experiments, randomized trials, statistical and econometric tools, causal modeling and thought experiments. But how do these different methods relate to each other and to the causal inquiry at hand? Reiss argues that there is no "gold standard" in…Read more
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Third Time's a Charm: Causation, Science, and Wittgensteinian PluralismIn Phyllis McKay Illari, Federica Russo & Jon Williamson (eds.), Causality in the Sciences, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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CounterfactualsIn Harold Kincaid (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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