Conference on Issues in Philosophy of Economics
Bevill Building - 845 19th Street South - Room 170
May 19 - 21, 2006
Friday
8:30 – 10:30 AM Comprehensive Positions in Philosophy
of Economics
Chair: Harold
Kincaid, UAB
Daniel
Hausman, University of Wisconsin,
"That 70s Show -- And Some Reruns"
Alexander
Rosenberg, Duke University, "If
Economics is Not a Science what is it?ÉA Science"
Uskali
Maki, Erasmus University-Rotterdam,
"Some Partial Truths about Truth and Economics, or My Philosophy of Economics;
Formation and Structure"
10:30 -11:00 AM Break
11:00-12:30 PM Evolution and Economics
Chair: Don Ross,
UAB
Cristina Bicchieri, University of Pennsylvania, "What is Social about
Social Preferences?"
Jack
Vromen, Erasmus
University-Rotterdam, "Evolutionary Explanations in Economics"
12:30-2:00 PM lunch provided
2:00-3:30 PM Economic Agency
Chair: Steven
Ellis, University of Oklahoma
John
Davis, Marquette Univ./ Erasmus
Univ.-Rotterdam, "Conceptions of the Individual in Recent Economics"
Don
Ross, UAB/University of Cape Town,
"Extra-personal, Sub-personal and Personal Dynamics in Economics"
3:30-4:00 PM break
4:00 - 4:45 PM Macroeconomics,
Chair: Steven
Ellis, University of Oklahoma
Kevin
Hoover, University of
California-Davis, "Philosophical Problems in Macroeconomics"
5:00 PM Reception on Site
7:00 PM Dinner at Surin Restaurant
Saturday
9:00 AM Continental
Breakfast
9:30 - 11:45 AM
Experiment and Simulation in Economics
Chair: Anna
Alexandrova, University of California San Diego
Francesco
Guala, University of Exeter,
"Methodological Issues in Experimental Design and Interpretation"
Jim
Woodward, Cal Tech, "Experimental
Investigations of Social Preferences"
Paul
Humphreys, University of Virginia,
"Computational Economics"
11:45 AM - 2:00 PM lunch
2:00 - 3:30 PM Welfare
and Well-Being
Chair: Scott Arnold,
UAB
Erik
Angner, UAB "Measuring Well Being"
Keith
Dowding, London School of Economics,
"Philosophical Issues in Welfare Economics"
3:30 - 4:00 PM Break
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Science Studies and Economics
Chair: Harold
Kincaid, UAB
Philip
Mirowski, University of Notre Dame,
"Economics of Knowledge"
Wade
Hands, University of Pudget Sound,
"Philosophical Issues in the History of Demand Theory"
5:30 PM Reception on site
7:00 PM Dinner at Don
Ross' house
Sunday
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:45 AM Game Theory
Chair: Steven
Ellis, University of Oklahoma
Martin
Wittenberg, University of Cape Town,
South Africa, "Classical Game Theory"
10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon Models and the Use of Evidence in
Economics
Chair: Anna
Alexandrova, University of California San Diego,
Nancy
Cartwright, London School of Economics/ University
of California at San Diego, "Evidence, Models and Use"
Stan
Du Plessis, University of
Stellenbosch, "The Miracle of the Septuagint and the Reality of Data Mining"
Harold
Kincaid, UAB, "Evidence as Argument
in Economics"
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