Reflection without Rules offers a comprehensive, pointed exploration of the methodological
tradition in economics and the breakdown of the received view within the philosophy of …

Publisher description: One way to understand science is as a selection process. David Hull,
one of the dominant figures in contemporary philosophy of science, sets out in this volume a …

History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views that continue to play a
fundamental role in today's politics and economics." The Big Three in Economics" traces the …

This is a book about one of the most controversial concepts in economics: the invisible hand.
The author explores the unintended social consequences implied by the invisible hand and …

The growing body of research on interdisciplinarity has encouraged a more indepth analysis
of the relations that hold among academic disciplines. In particular, the incursion of one …

At least since Kuhn's Structure, philosophers have studied the influence of social factors in
science's pursuit of truth and knowledge. More recently, formal models and computer …

This work consists of two parts. Part I will be a contribution to a philo-sophical discussion of
the nature of causal explanation. It will present my contrastive counterfactual theory of …

An invisible hand seems to play an important role in science. In this paper I set out the
general structure of invisible-hand explanations, counter some objections that have been …

The production of scientific knowledge is a social process that can be analysed with the help
of conceptual tools drawn from economic science. A growing literature shows that this …

The cultural and epistemic status of science is under attack. Social and cultural studies of
science are widely perceived to offer evidence and arguments in support of an anti-science …