Economics and the Philosophy of Science Subject Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V Y Z Contents PART I: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: Rationality Growth Ignorance Objectivity and Criticism 1. The Problems 2. The Decline of Logical Positivism 3. The Pendulum Swings in the Other Direction: Sociological Explanations in Science Michael Polanyi: Personal and Tacit Knowledge Ludwik Fleck: Denkkollektiv and Denkstil Thomas Kuhns Scientific Revolutions 4. The Popperian School Sir Karl Popper Imre Lakatos: Metaphysics Transformed into the Methodology of Scientific Paul Feyerabend the Dadasoph 44 William Bartley: Pancritical Rationalism 5. Whither the History of Science History and the Philosophy of Science Stephen Toulmin Norwood Russell Hanson 6. Conclusions PART II: ECONOMICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 7. Philosophys Influence on Economics: Early Exchanges 8. Sir Karl Poppers Philosophy of the Social Sciences: A Disjointed Whole Economics: Queen of the Social Sciences The Polemical Element: The Case Against Historicism Rationality and Situational Logic Why Falsification in Economics Fails The Neglected Messages: Clarity and Criticism as Objective Method 9. Lakatos and Kuhn: Science as Consensus Why Economicus Academicus Chose Lakatos as His Darling Semantics Revisited: How Paradigm and Research Program Have Come to Mean Anything and Everything Paradigms and SRPs Applied The Drive to Be Normal Scientists Appendix I: A Short History of the Is Ought Problem Appendix II: Economists Whose First Work or Works Deal with Methodological and or Philosophical Topics Bibliography Author Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z