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Jul
31
2009
Foucault on economists?Published in world view, society, psychology, philosophy, financial crisis, fiction, epistemology, economics, dissent by Tuomas Kuronen | Comment (0)Ok, this might be a long shot, but I'll let it go anyway. After a long weekend of homo oeconomicus -bashing at Philosophy of Management conference, I could not but read Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization with the same glasses on. Naturally, he discusses madness (which is far from economics), quoting Louis-Sébastien Mercier:
Mar
19
2009
Contingency and social sciencePublished in social science, science, research, legitimacy, institutions, fiction, explanation, contingency, academia by Tuomas Kuronen | Comment (0)Attending a talk last week about contingency in science (held as part of CPNSS project ‘Contingency and Dissent in Science) left me rather confused. As I found it, the concept of contingency, at least at the LSE, seems to be a name (or a subset-not in a strictly set-theoretical sense!) of the nowadays quite classical realism-antirealism debate. That is, I found no references to Rorty. Although quite understandable, it still seems odd to pass the ‘practical turn' of the 1980s in one sentence, just slightly overlooking some significant parts of more recent developments in philosophy. On the other hand, the bent is quite reasonable considering the institutional traditions. |
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