Reflection without Rules

Contents

Preface

1 Introduction 1

• 1.1 Economic Methodology 3
• 1.2 Contemporary Science Theory 4
• 1.3 Changing the Subject 6
• 1.4 A Reader's Guide 8

• 2.1 The Millian Tradition in Economic Methodology 14
• 2.2 Variations on Positivist Themes 48

• 3.1 The Received View within the Philosophy of Science 72
• 3.2 The Attack on the Received View 95
• 3.3 First Round Responses 110
• 3.4 Setting the Stage for the Naturalistic Turn 125

• 4.1 Naturalizing Epistemology 130
• 4.2 Psychology and the Cognitive Approach to Knowledge 141
• 4.3 Encouragement from Darwin: Evolutionary Epistemology 154
• 4.4 Eliminative Materialism and the Philosophy of Mind 165

• 5.1 Society and Scientific Knowledge 175
• 5.2 The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge 186
• 5.3 Nature, Society, SSK, and Economics 199

• 6.1 The Pragmatic Turn 215
• 6.2 Neopragmatism and the Discursive Turn 241
• 6.3 Feminist Epistemology and Economics 260

• 7.1 The Popperian Tradition 275
• 7.2 The Millian Tradition 304
• 7.3 Realist Themes 320
• 7.4 Cognitive and Semantic Themes 334

• 8.1 The Economic Turn in Contemporary Science Theory 354
• 8.2 The Economics of Science 361
• 8.3 The Economics of Scientific Knowledge (ESK) 365
• 8.4 Some Final Thoughts on the Economic Turn 388

• 9.1 Lessons from the New Economic Methodology 396
• 9.2 A Few Issues of Concern 402

• References 408
• Web Sites 460
• Index