Search Results - subject:"Scientific realism"

Rescher, Nicholas - In: Mind and Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and … 11 (2012) 2, pp. 149-163

The paper argues that future knowledge will in substantial measure be inscrutable for us today, with the principal exception of facts about the past. The paper considers the reasons for this circumstance and examines its wider implications for the condition of human knowledge. Copyright...

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Organizational and Management Research as Social Science: How to Resolve Problems of Scientific Legitimacy?

Sargut, A. Selami - In: Anadolu University Journal of Social Sciences 12 (2012) 2, pp. 1-16

postmodernist turn is especially evident from ontological and epistemological perspectives. The adoption of scientific realism can … paradigm, scientific realism can help in overcoming the indefensible postmodernist arguments that have been prominent in the …

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Scientific realism as a challenge to economics (and vice versa)

Maki, Uskali - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 18 (2011) 1, pp. 1-12

The implications of scientific realism in regard to economics depend on what one takes scientific realism to mean and … revisionist line is adopted and scientific realism is reduced to a minimal version that is able to accommodate as large a portion … of scientific realism do, mind-independent existence, unobservables, and actual or likely epistemic and technological …

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An exploration of critical scientific realism: focused on changes in accounting for sustainable development

Birkin, Frank - In: International Journal of Critical Accounting 2 (2010) 2, pp. 146-169

identifies a foundation for accounting for sustainable development in terms of critical scientific realism which is appropriate …

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Cultural Materialism and Institutional Economics

Jackson, William A. - In: Review of Social Economy 54 (1996) 2, pp. 221-244

Economics and culture have usually been kept apart in academic discussion. The resulting division is damaging to economics, since important cultural questions such as the formation of preferences, the influence of ideology and the relation between the individual and society are systematically...

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Realism, Regularities, and Prediction

Cottrell, Allin - In: Review of Social Economy 56 (1998) 3, pp. 347-355

Problems are identified with the transcendental argument that Lawson uses to make a case for realism in economics: this argument relies heavily upon an unproblematized conception of Free Will. Lawson's substantive conclusions are not vitiated, but the argument presented here suggests that he...

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