Abstract
The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics is very pleased to present this interview with Tony Lawson in which he discusses his work on various issues including social ontology and critical realism in economics, along with the differences that he perceives between his position and those of Uskali Mäki and Nancy Cartwright. We had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Lawson about all these issues following his presentation this past spring at the research seminar series at the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE), in Rotterdam.
Highlights
EJPE’S NOTE: This interview was conducted by Clemens Hirsch and C
I became involved in student politics in London
Economists as seemed to be mostly unaware that there are limits to the uses of any specific form of mathematics. It was at this point, in effect, that I started to become interested in ontology, though I did not know the term
Summary
EJPE’S NOTE: This interview was conducted by Clemens Hirsch and C. It is in order to reduce the risk of the ontological fallacy that I often go on and on about the importance of not interpreting substantive theories or methods as critical realist ones (see, for example, Fullbrook 2009, chapter 4). Because these theories are about specific causal mechanisms and the like the insight provided relates only to the subject matter of what I am calling (natural) scientific ontology.
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