Table of Contents

A. General Philosophical Themes Realism and Antirealism about Economics (Uskali Mäki) The Rise and Fall of Popper and Lakatos in Economics (Roger E. Backhouse) Models and Modelling in Economics (Mary S. Morgan and Tarja Knuuttila) Economic Theory and Causal Inference (Kevin D. Hoover) Naturalism and the Nature of Economic Evidence (Harold Kincaid) Some Issues Concerning the Nature of Economic Explanation (Harold Kincaid) The Unreasonable Efficacy of Mathematics in Economics (Philip Mirowski) Feminist Philosophy of Economics (Kristina Rolin) The Positive-Normative Dichotomy and Economics (D. Wade Hands) Economic Theory, Anti-economics, and Political Ideology (Don Ross) Social Scientific Naturalism and Experimentation in Economics (Daniel Hausman) B. Specific Methods, Theories, Approaches, Paradigms, Schools, Traditions The Philosophy of Economic Forecasting (Clive W. J. Granger) Philosophy of Econometrics (Aris Spanos) Measurement in Economics (Marcel Boumans) Geographical Economics and its Neighbours — Forces Towards and Against Unification (Caterina Marchionni) The Homo Economicus Conception of the Individual: An Ontological Approach (John B. Davis) Rational Choice and some Difficulties for Consequentialism (Paul Anand) Rational Choice: Preferences over Actions and Rule-following Behaviour (Viktor Vanberg) Philosophy of Game Theory (Till Grüne-Yanoff and Aki Lehtinen) An Embarrassment of Riches: Modeling Social Preferences in Ultimatum Games (Cristina Bicchieri and Jiji Zhang) Experimentation in Economics (Francesco Guala) Behavioral Economics (Erik Angner and George Loewenstein) The Economic Agent: Not Human, But Important (Don Ross) Ontological Issues in Evolutionary Economics: The Debate Between Generalized Darwinism and the Continuity Hypothesis (Jack Vromen) Public Choice — A Methodological Perspective (Hartmut Kliemt) Judgment Aggregation: A Short Introduction (Christian List) The Economics of Scientific Knowledge (Jesus Zamora Bonilla)

About the Author

Dov M. Gabbay is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. He has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international Journals, and many reference works and Handbooks of Logic.