Philosophy of Mathematics and Economics: Image, Context and Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367592431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 242 str.

Thomas a. Boylan; Paschal F. O'Gorman

Opis

Economic methodology has been dominated by developments in the philosophy of science. This book’s central thesis is that a great deal can be gained by refocusing attention on developments in the philosophy of mathematics, in particular those that took place over the course of the twentieth century.

Spis treści

Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1 Economics and Mathematics: Image, Context and Development, Chapter 2 Walras’s Programme: The Walras-Poincaré Correspondence Reassessed, Chapter 3 The Formalisation of Economics and Debreu’s Philosophy of Mathematics, Chapter 4 The Axiomatic Method in the Foundations of Mathematics: Implications for Economics, Chapter 5 Hahn and Kaldor on the Neo-Walrasian Formalization of Economics, Chapter 6 Rationality and Conventions in Economics and in Mathematics, Chapter 7 The Emergence of Constructive and Computable Mathematics: New Directions for the Formalization of Economics?, Chapter 8 Economics, Mathematics and Science: Philosophical Reflections, Appendix, Bibliography

O autorze

Thomas A. Boylan is Professor Emeritus of Economics of the National University of Ireland, Galway. His main research and teaching interests have been in Economic Growth and Development Theory; Applied Econometrics; Philosophy/Methodology of Economics; Post-Keynesian Economics; and the History of Irish Economic Thought.

Paschal F. O’Gorman is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of the National University of Ireland, Galway. His main research and teaching areas have been in the Philosophy of Science; Logic; Philosophy of Mind; and since the 1980s, the Philosophy and Methodology of Economics.