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SUMMARY:Ontic structural realism and economics: the unwanted gift - Raj Pa
 tel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Toby Bryant
DESCRIPTION:Psychological content is making its way into economic modellin
 g with promising new research programmes such as behavioural economics. Bu
 t stalwarts of the 'minimalist programme' in economics argue that these ne
 w programmes are misguided and that economics should be kept separate from
  other disciplines. Economist Don Ross has recently mounted a scholarly de
 fence of the minimalist programme inspired by a view in the philosophy of 
 science called ontic structural realism (OSR). This paper criticizes the a
 pplication of OSR to economics and argues that economics should keep its i
 nterdisciplinary doors open.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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