scholarly journals METHODOLOGICAL DISCOURSE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCE

2017 ◽  
pp. 97-108
Author(s):  
A. Filipenko
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Economic Methodology ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
The One ◽  
New Phenomena

The article investigates the main approaches in the field of economic methodology. There are two methodological trends that emerged under the philosophy of science: naturalistic and constructivist. The first originates from Aristotle’s materialism, the second – from Plato’s ideas. Naturalized approaches eliminates distinction between the “context of discovery” and the “context of justification”. Constructivism related to cognitive methodological paradigm. It means that it is more sociological in nature, concerned with connections between individuals – with learning, inter-subjectivity, and social knowledge. Thus, the main methodological views on economic theory can, on the one hand, explain the economic life in all its dimensions – the micro – macro – and geo-economic levels, establish certain patterns and trends. On the other hand, using a variety of methods – logical, mathematical, statistical, computer models and programs, new phenomena and processes of local or global nature are explored. That creates conditions for accumulation of empirical and theoretical material that enriches the economic theory, generally shaping the economic science.

The Philosophy of Social Life

Philosophy ◽  
1929 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 76-86
Author(s):  
C. Delisle Burns
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Partial Analysis ◽  
Full Explanation ◽  
The One

Only one adult in a hundred gets his food and clothing without doing anything directly in exchange for them. The other ninety-nine form active parts of the system of relations in society which will be called, in what follows here, economic; and even the one in the hundred who does not give, takes something, as children and imbeciles take, out of the store of services which are economic life. Boots and bread are but the bridges over which one man is connected with another, through services exchanged. The philosophy of social life, therefore, must “place” these economic relations in the whole complex unity of human experience. The science of economics analyses some of the aspects of the relations of men in exchanging services, and it provides a language which is already sufficiently current to be used here without full explanation of the terms. Therefore, without more ado, the philosophical aspects of the economic system may be considered in the terms of economic science, but outside the frontiers proper to that partial analysis.

Benson and Miller in Perspective

1979 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 242-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Kuklick
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Applied Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Stock Of Knowledge

Despite differences in coloration Miller and Benson are birds of a feather. Although he is no Pollyanna, Miller believes that there has been a modest and decent series of advances in the social sciences and that the most conscientious, diligent, and intelligent researchers will continue to add to this stock of knowledge. Benson is much more pessimistic about the achievements of yesterday and today but, in turn, offers us the hope of a far brighter tomorrow. Miller explains Benson’s hyperbolic views about the past and future by distinguishing between pure and applied science and by pointing out Benson’s naivete about politics: the itch to understand the world is different from the one to make it better; and, Miller says, because Benson sees that we have not made things better, he should not assume we do not know more about them; Benson ought to realize, Miller adds, that the way politicians translate basic social knowledge into social policy need not bring about rational or desirable results. On the other side, Benson sees more clearly than Miller that the development of science has always been intimately intertwined with the control of the environment and the amelioration of the human estate.

scholarly journals Antonio Rosmini’s Social Ethics and his Relationship to German Thought

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Markus Krienke
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
Ethical Thought ◽  
The One ◽  
Social Market

Abstract Putting the economic and social–ethical thought of Rosmini in relationship to the German tradition of social market economy, either a pertinent collocation of the liberal catholic thinker Rosmini or new perspectives for the concept of social market economy, which is in search for a new identity, have been made. The justification of this paper lies in the fact that Rosmini introduced the idea of social justice right in the sense of social market economy, on the one hand, and in the way in which the late 19th-centrury economic theory in Italy received his economic thought, on the other hand. Hence, despite his theoretical and cultural distance from Röpke, both have many interesting economic reflections in common.

Prediction and economic theory

1986 ◽  
Vol 407 (1832) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The One ◽  
Fundamental Tension ◽  
Theory Use

The role of prediction in economics involves a fundamental tension. On the one hand, much of economics is concerned with prediction. On the other, economic predictions are notoriously unreliable. It is, in fact, tempting to see the economist as the trapeze-performer who tends to miss the cross-bar, or as the jockey who keeps falling off his horse. Whether or not such characterization is fair, there can be no doubt that the nature and genesis of this fundamental tension, and its implications, do call for systematic analysis and assessment. The aim of this paper is to attempt a brief examination of these issues. There is a sequence of questions to be faced. How central is prediction to economics ? Why are economic predictions so difficult ? What techni­ques does economic theory use to cope with these difficulties ? Are these techniques sound ? How does economic theory relate to practice ? I shall take up these questions in turn.

scholarly journals Philosophy and the Sciences After Kant

2009 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 275-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Massimi
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
International Conference ◽  
American Philosophical Association ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
University Of Notre Dame ◽  
The One

On 11th October 2007, at the first international conference on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (&HPS1) hosted by the Center for Philosophy of Science in Pittsburgh, Ernan McMullin (University of Notre Dame) portrayed a rather gloomy scenario concerning the current relationship between history and philosophy of science (HPS), on the one hand, and mainstream philosophy, on the other hand, as testified by a significant drop in the presence of HPS papers at various meetings of the American Philosophical Association (APA).

scholarly journals Gatherers of central Poland: a field study

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Rakowski
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Industrial Waste ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Poland ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

This paper concerns the way in which poor inhabitants of a rapidly industrialized terrain in central Poland gather and collect different sort of waste. Such phenomena as dwelling by using gathered scrap and any industrial waste serve as a field for an anthropological study. One the one hand the gathering is a certain strategy of surviving. On the other these collected things create a kind of a narrative - the objects anchor the gatherers experience, write down their biographies and reveal their relation to the local social and economic life.

scholarly journals Om religion og kognition

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armin W. Geertz
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Science Of Religion ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cognitive Approaches ◽  
Neurological Research ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Cognitive Study ◽  
The Brain

“On Religion and Cognition: A Brief Historical and Thematic Introduction”. This article is a brief introduction to the cognitive study of religion. Ten problems are identified which serve as the backdrop of the article. These concern the problems of historical depth in the study of cognition; the increase of many different disciplinary approaches; the resultant termino­logical confusion; the weaknesses of the natural sciences in terms of the philosophy of science; the corresponding weaknesses of the cognitive science of religion in terms of the philosophy of science; the need to replace strategic triumphalism on the one hand and strategic isolationism on the other with strategic sobriety; the need to maintain that the study of religion concerns origins, functions, forms, meanings and structures as well as texts; the realization that the methodological tools accompanying cognitive approaches should be handled with care and prudence; the reduction of cognition exclusively to processes in the brain ignores recent neurological research that points to alternative models of cognition; and there are many more possibilities in cognitive research than have been acknowledged by the pioneers of cognitive approaches to the study of religion. The article briefly discusses the many histories of research in cognition during the past 150 years and illustrates various cognitive themes which might be fruitfully pursued by scholars of religion.

Current Reform Efforts of German Consumer Insolvency Law and the Discharge of Residual Debts

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 591-601
Author(s):  
Dörte Busch
Keyword(s):  
Economic Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Protection ◽  
Insolvency Law ◽  
Current Reform ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The One ◽  
Insolvency Proceedings ◽  
Allgemeines Persönlichkeitsrecht ◽  
Economic Function

The new Insolvency Statute (Insolvenzordnung – InsO), which came into force on 1 January 1999, sets a discharge of residual debts (Restschuldbefreiung), sections 286 – 303 InsO. When the debtor is a natural person, he or she can request the discharge on the basis of two different insolvency proceedings: either in accordance with the regular insolvency proceedings or in accordance with the consumer insolvency proceedings. The discharge of residual debts has both a social and an economic function. On the one hand, it serves as personal protection for the debtor, especially his rights of privacy and dignity (allgemeines Persönlichkeitsrecht); it will give debtors a new perspective. On the other hand, the provisions intend to (re)integrate debtors into economic life, thereby avoiding illegal employment.

Some Remarks on the Logic of Explanation in the Social Sciences

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 64-81
Author(s):  
Albrecht Wellmer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Analytical Philosophy ◽  
Practical Consequence ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

If one were to write a history of the philosophy of science in the spirit of T. S. Kuhn, one would have to consider the model of scientific explanation which Popper proposed and Hempel and Oppenheim developed to be one of the great paradigms of contemporary analytical philosophy of science. This analogue to the historically important paradigms of the individual sciences seems to me to be justifiable for the following reasons: first, the Hempel—Oppenheim model (or HO-model, as I shall call it) claims universal methodological validity; second, discussions on the problem of explanation have centred on this model for some time; third, the recent cognitive progress in this field has been largely the result of the interrelation between criticism of this model on the one hand and its improvement and explication on the other hand; and lastly, this model stands for a particular comprehension of the problems and possibilities of science, a concept of quite important practical consequence.

Economic Methodology and Postmodernism

2006 ◽  
pp. 59-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Boldyrev
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Economic Methodology ◽  
Current State ◽  
Modern Economic

The article is devoted to the interconnections between postmodern tendencies in the today’s culture (and in the philosophy of science in particular) and the modern economic methodology. The author shows that the relativist views, which are the distinctive feature of postmodernist theories, are justified by the current state of economic theory, fragmented and heterogeneous as it is. The article analyzes the genesis of postmodernist ideas, their advantages and drawbacks.

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