Understanding the basic concepts and most important ideas of the philosophy of science insofar as they are relevant to students of Economics and Social Economics.
Subject
The subject of the course are the basic concepts and most important ideas of the philosophy of science insofar as they are relevant to economics and the social economy. These include, among others:
Good scientific reasoning
Models of scientific explanation
The problem of induction
The role of rationality assumptions
Causality and causal mechanisms
Measure
Basics of regression analysis
Functioning of scientific models
Methodological problems of experimentation
Methodological problems of randomised trials
Criteria for evaluation
Written exam at the end of the course.
Methods
Lectures
Language
(*)Deutsch und Englisch
Study material
Reiss, Julian 2013, The Philosophy of Economics. New York (NY): Routledge
