id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_hcovyombafd5bdvv5qbuqpzuau D. Wade Hands Caveat Emptor: Economics and Contemporary Philosophy of Science 1997 11 .pdf application/pdf 4829 380 54 The relationship between economics and the philosophy of natural science has changed Shaked (1991) where economic arguments are applied directly to questions in the normative philosophy of natural science. well as the ideas of modern (neoclassical) economics-and thus constitute an approach to the philosophy of natural science that I have The basic philosophical problem situation in these papers is to explain how the right stuff (cognitively reliable scientific knowledge) can economics-inspired work in the philosophy of science (see Hands examples from economic science in the presentation of their more general philosophical program (e.g., Cartwright 1989; also see Hands One argument for involving economics in the philosophy of science The second, and perhaps more important, reason for involving economics in the philosophy of natural science is that it seems to provide R. (1992), "Fraud in Science: An Economic Approach", Philosophy of the Social Symposium: The Use of Economic Concepts in Contemporary Philosophy of Science ./cache/work_hcovyombafd5bdvv5qbuqpzuau.pdf ./txt/work_hcovyombafd5bdvv5qbuqpzuau.txt