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A Case Study in Realism: Why Econometrics is Committed to Capacities

Nancy Cartwright

PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988:190 - 197 (1988)

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Simple theories of a messy world: Truth and explanatory power in nonlinear dynamics.Alexander Rueger & W. David Sharp - 1996 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (1):93-112.details Philosophers like Duhem and Cartwright have argued that there is a tension between laws' abilities to explain and to represent. Abstract laws exemplify the first quality, phenomenological laws the second. This view has both metaphysical and methodological aspects: the world is too complex to be represented by simple theories; supplementing simple theories to make them represent reality blocks their confirmation. We argue that both aspects are incompatible with recent developments in nonlinear dynamics. Confirmation procedures and modelling strategies in nonlinear dynamics (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 10 citations
(1 other version)Reinventing Certainty: The Significance of Ian Hacking’s Realism.Alan G. Gross - 1990 - PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990 (1):421-431.details In a recent paper (1989), Ian Hacking has extended his discussion of entity realism, a discussion begun six years ago in the final chapter of Representing and Intervening (1983). This extension allows us to examine for the first time the whole of one impressive attempt to rescue scientific realism from the ever more subtle skepticism of post-positivist thinking (Laudan 1984; Fine 1986). Hacking’s approach complements that of Nancy Cartwright. Like Cartwright, he implies that a full-blown realism about scientific theories and (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Blurred boundaries: Recent changes in the relationship between economics and the philosophy of natural science.D. Wade Hands - 1994 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (5):751-772.details Download Export citation Bookmark 12 citations
The scope of ontological theorising.Stephen Pratten - 2007 - Foundations of Science 12 (3):235-256.details In recent years there have been an increasing number of contributions to economic methodology that develop or seek to reveal ontological positions. Despite this there is no agreement about either what ontology is or how it can contribute to economics. For some ontological theorising reveals the presuppositions of economists and its role is largely descriptive. Others see ontology as primarily engaged in setting out and defending a general account of some domain of reality and suggest that such a conception can (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations

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