When giving courses in the philosophy of science yours truly has often had David Papineau’s book Philosophical Devices (OUP 2012) on the reading list. Overall it is a good introduction to many of the instruments used when performing methodological and science theoretical analyses of economic and other social sciences issues.
Unfortunately, the book has also fallen prey to the randomization hype that scourges sciences nowadays....Lars P. Syll’s Blog
Randomization — a philosophical device gone astray
Lars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University
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