040049 SE Philosophy and Economics (MA) (2023W)
Histories of Economic Ideas and Theories of Scientific Progress
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 11.09.2023 09:00 to Fr 22.09.2023 12:00
- Registration is open from Tu 26.09.2023 09:00 to We 27.09.2023 12:00
- Deregistration possible until Fr 20.10.2023 23:59
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max. 25 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Thursday
05.10.
18:30 - 20:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
12.10.
18:30 - 20:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
19.10.
18:30 - 20:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
09.11.
18:30 - 20:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
16.11.
18:30 - 20:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
23.11.
18:30 - 20:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
30.11.
18:30 - 20:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
07.12.
18:30 - 20:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
14.12.
18:30 - 20:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
11.01.
18:30 - 20:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
18.01.
18:30 - 20:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
25.01.
18:30 - 20:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
25.01.
20:15 - 22:00
Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Requirements
Students have to produce one substantial talk and on that basis hand in a proper seminar paper (ca. 8000-12000 words including abstract and references). Length and exact format of talks will be determined in accordance with the number of participants attending the seminar. In addition students are required to summarize three different talks and critically comment on them in writing (ca 300 words each). Also, they have to attend the seminar on a regular basis and contribute in a lively manner to discussions at all classes.
Students have to produce one substantial talk and on that basis hand in a proper seminar paper (ca. 8000-12000 words including abstract and references). Length and exact format of talks will be determined in accordance with the number of participants attending the seminar. In addition students are required to summarize three different talks and critically comment on them in writing (ca 300 words each). Also, they have to attend the seminar on a regular basis and contribute in a lively manner to discussions at all classes.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Evaluation and Rewards
In order to complete that seminar successfully, students are required to produce one substantial talk and write a proper seminar paper. They also are required to hand in three comments on three different talks in writing and to contribute in a lively manner to discussions at all classes. The quality of talks, comments and seminar papers will be evaluated on the basis of completeness, clarity of argument, logical reasoning, and precision. (Individual contributions are evaluated as follows: 60% seminarpaper, 20% discussions, 10% talks, 10% written comments.)
In order to complete that seminar successfully, students are required to produce one substantial talk and write a proper seminar paper. They also are required to hand in three comments on three different talks in writing and to contribute in a lively manner to discussions at all classes. The quality of talks, comments and seminar papers will be evaluated on the basis of completeness, clarity of argument, logical reasoning, and precision. (Individual contributions are evaluated as follows: 60% seminarpaper, 20% discussions, 10% talks, 10% written comments.)
Examination topics
Areas of Examinations
Problems discussed in the seminar.
Problems discussed in the seminar.
Reading list
Principal Readings:
To be announced.
To be announced.
Association in the course directory
Last modified: Fr 19.01.2024 13:25
The aim of this course is to investigate and analyse the different interpretational points of view that different Histories of Economic Ideas (Histories of Economic Thought) introduce in order to explicate the development of economic ideas. Singular historical events and incidents in a particular scientific discipline, such as economics, are explained in terms of singular historical explanations, which are animated by strictly universal and empirical propositions. In contrast and for logical reasons, explications of historical development processes of scientific disciplines as provided by different Histories of Economic Ideas (Thought), require interpretational points of view, formed by theories of scientific progress. However, as theories of scientific progress are logical consequences of particular epistemological positions, these theories result from special solutions of the problems of induction and demarcation. By analysing different Histories of Economic Ideas (Thought), this seminar aims at uncovering the different epistemological positions as well as the different theories of scientific progress that implicitly form the interpretational points of view of these histories.Methods
Teaching consists in one unbroken 90-minute weekly seminar. In form of a lecture, based on selected passages of epistemological and methodological writings, meetings 1 to 5, (meetings Oct. 5th, Oct. 12th, Oct. 19th, Nov. 9th, and Nov. 16th), will be devoted to introducing students to the problems at issue. This introductory phase of the seminar provides students with a theoretical framework for analysing particular Histories of Economic Ideas (Thought). That introductory phase of the seminar is followed by a period of reading. Meetings 6 to 9 (meetings Nov. 23rd, Nov. 30th, Dec.7th, and Dec. 14th) are devoted mainly to reading entire or parts of Histories of Economic Ideas (Thought). In that second phaContent
According to anti-naturalism, the methods of the natural sciences are in principle inapplicable to the (central) problems of the social sciences including economics. In contrast, pro-naturalism endorses or demands the application of the methods of the natural sciences to the social sciences including economics. In the first meetings of the seminar, we will discuss the influential explications of several pro-naturalistic and anti-naturalistic arguments by Felix Kaufmann (1936/2014) and Karl Popper (1936/1957). Having developed this conceptual and theoretical toolset, we will analyze several texts by German and Austrian economists, philosophers, methodologists, and social scientists from interwar period: What do they identify as the methods of the natural sciences (induction?, mathematical methods?, quantification?, physicalism?, positivism?, general laws?, experiments?)? How do these authors subsequently conceive of the relation between the natural sciences and the social sciences? Which methodological, economic, and political conclusions do they draw from their pro-naturalistic and anti-naturalistic premises? In the final meetings, we may venture an outlook on the role of pro-naturalistic and anti-naturalistic positions in contemporary economics and social science.