Steven Rappaport
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5723061 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Steven Rappaport |
| NOMBRES | Steven |
| APELLIDO | Rappaport |
| FIRMA | RAPPAPORT S |
| AFILIACIONES | De Anza College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Inference to the Best Explanation
Peter Lipton has attempted to flesh out a model of Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) by clarifying explanation in terms of a causal model. But Lipton's account of explanation makes an adequate explanation depend on a principle which is virtually identical to Mill's Method of Difference. This has the result of collapsing IBE on Lipton's account of it into causal inference as conceived by the Causal-Inference model of induction. According to …
Economic Models and Historical Explanation
In investigating their models, economists do not appear to engage much in the activities many philosophers take to be essential to scientific understanding of the world, activities such as testing hypotheses and establishing laws. How, then, can economic models explain anything about the real world? Borrowing from William Dray, an explanation of what something really is, as opposed to an explanation of why something happens, is the subsumption of…
The As-If View of Economic Motivational Hypotheses
I. Introduction An economic motivational hypothesis ascribes a goal to economic agents of some specified type. Neoclassical microeconomic models regularly include motivational hypothesis. The model of rational consumer assumes that consumers to maximize their utility; model of purchasing behavior of a firm in a competitive factor market includes hypotheses that a firm desires to hire a quantity of a factor which maximizes firm profits; and so on.…
Bonjour's Objection to Traditional Foundationalism
Empirical foundationalism affirms that some empirical beliefs a person holds (at a time) have a degree of justification or warrant that does not derive from their being inferable from other empirical beliefs the person holds. Such beliefs are basic for the person (at the time). In his recent book Laurence Bonjour claims that foundationalism faces the following problem: The basic problem confronting empirical foundationalism ... is how the basic o…
Inference to the Best Explanation
Peter Lipton has attempted to flesh out a model of Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) by clarifying explanation in terms of a causal model. But Lipton's account of explanation makes an adequate explanation depend on a principle which is virtually identical to Mill's Method of Difference. This has the result of collapsing IBE on Lipton's account of it into causal inference as conceived by the Causal-Inference model of induction. According to …
Bonjour's Objection to Traditional Foundationalism
Empirical foundationalism affirms that some empirical beliefs a person holds (at a time) have a degree of justification or warrant that does not derive from their being inferable from other empirical beliefs the person holds. Such beliefs are basic for the person (at the time). In his recent book Laurence Bonjour claims that foundationalism faces the following problem: The basic problem confronting empirical foundationalism ... is how the basic o…
The As-If View of Economic Motivational Hypotheses
I. Introduction An economic motivational hypothesis ascribes a goal to economic agents of some specified type. Neoclassical microeconomic models regularly include motivational hypothesis. The model of rational consumer assumes that consumers to maximize their utility; model of purchasing behavior of a firm in a competitive factor market includes hypotheses that a firm desires to hire a quantity of a factor which maximizes firm profits; and so on.…
Economic Models and Historical Explanation
In investigating their models, economists do not appear to engage much in the activities many philosophers take to be essential to scientific understanding of the world, activities such as testing hypotheses and establishing laws. How, then, can economic models explain anything about the real world? Borrowing from William Dray, an explanation of what something really is, as opposed to an explanation of why something happens, is the subsumption of…
Inference to the Best Explanation
Peter Lipton has attempted to flesh out a model of Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) by clarifying explanation in terms of a causal model. But Lipton's account of explanation makes an adequate explanation depend on a principle which is virtually identical to Mill's Method of Difference. This has the result of collapsing IBE on Lipton's account of it into causal inference as conceived by the Causal-Inference model of induction. According to …
Economics (3 obras) · Epistemology (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 obras) · Economic Theory and Institutions (2 obras) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 obras) · Positive economics (2 obras) · Business Strategy and Innovation (1 obras) · Causal inference (1 obras) · Causal model (1 obras)