Table of Contents

Introduction: Core Issues on Scientific Imperialism. Uskali Mäki, Adrian Walsh, and Manuela Fernández Pinto

Part I. A Philosophical Framing for Scientific Imperialism

1. Scientific Imperialism, Folk Morality and the Proper Boundaries of Disciplines. Adrian Walsh and Sandy Boucher

2. Disciplinary Emotions in Interdisciplinary Interaction. Mikko Salmela and Uskali Mäki

3. Scientific Imperialism and Epistemic Injustice. Kristina Rolin

4. Ethical Implications of Scientific Imperialism: Two Examples from Economics. Patricia Marino

Part II. Historical Origins of Scientific Imperialism

5. Scientific Imperialism or Merely Boundary Crossing? Economists, Lawyers, and the Coase Theorem at the Dawn of the Economic Analysis of Law. Steven Medema

6. Rational Choice as Neo-Decisionism: Decision-Making in Political Science and Economics after 1945. Nicolas Guilhot and Alain Marciano

7. Economics Imperialism Reconsidered. Sonja Amadae

8. Crossing Boundaries, Displacing Previous Knowledge and Claiming Superiority: Is The Economics of Discrimination a Conquest of Economics Imperialism? Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche

Part III. Scientific Imperialism in the Making: Case Analyses

9. Scientific Subordination, Molecular Biology and Systems Biology. Miles MacLeod

10. Against Neuroscience Imperialism. Roberto Fumagalli

11. Scientific Imperialism and Explanatory Appeals to Evolution in the Social Sciences. Steve Downes

12. Logical Form, the First Person, and Naturalism about Psychology: The Case against Physicalist Imperialism. Frederique Janssen-Lauret

13. Is the Behavioral Approach a Form of Scientific Imperialism? An Analysis of Law and Policy. Magdalena Małecka and Robert Lepenies

14. Imperializing Epistemology: Shortcomings of the Natura

About the Author

Uskali Mäki is an Academy Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland and Director of the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Adrian Walsh is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England, Australia

Manuela Fernández Pinto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Reviews

I recommend this book to historians and philosophers who are interested in scientific imperialism, but also to those studying interdisciplinarity, philosophy of economics, and epistemic injustice. Scholars of naturalized epistemology and philosophers of mind might also have use for some contributions, especially those of Ferna´ndez Pinto and Janssen-Lauret. Scientists who want to conduct good interdisciplinary research can obtain some informative guidance from both the philosophical and historical contributions.
William Peden, Metascience, Springer Nature 2018