Economics Imperialism in Social Epistemology: A Critical Assessment

Philosophy of the Social Sciences 46 (5):443-472 (2016)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Expanding on recent philosophical contributions to the conceptual and normative framework of scientific imperialism, I examine whether the economics approach to social epistemology can be considered a case of economics imperialism and determine whether economics’ explanatory expansionism appropriately contributes to this philosophical subfield or not. I argue first that the economics approach to social epistemology counts as a case of economics imperialism under a broad conception of the term, and second that we have good reasons to doubt the appropriateness of the incursion of economics into social epistemology, insofar as economics’ attempt at explanatory unification fails to express significant human interests.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,616

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Economics Imperialism: Concept and Constraints.Uskali Mäki - 2009 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39 (3):351-380.
Economic Imperialism.Kurt W. Rothschild - 2008 - Analyse & Kritik 30 (2):723-733.
Glerii︠u︡ Shirokovu: i︠a︡ khotel by s toboĭ pogovoritʹ.S. V. Soplenkov & A. M. Petrov (eds.) - 2006 - Moskva: Akademii︠a︡ gumanitarnykh issledovaniĭ.
Science, economics, 'vision'.Susan Haack - 2004 - Social Research: An International Quarterly 71 (2):223-234.

Analytics

Added to PP
2016-02-05

Downloads
91 (#172,726)

6 months
51 (#72,534)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Manuela Fernández Pinto
University of the Andes

Citations of this work

Scientific Community: A Moral Dimension.Kristina Rolin - 2017 - Social Epistemology 31 (5):468-483.
Evaluation of Research(ers) and its Threat to Epistemic Pluralisms.Marco Viola - 2017 - European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 13 (2):55-78.
The market for scientific lemons, and the marketization of science.Jesús Zamora Bonilla - 2019 - Theoria : An International Journal for Theory, History and Fundations of Science 34 (1):133-145.

Add more citations