Tilting at Imaginary Windmills: A Comment on Tyfield
Abstract
in the inaugural issue of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, David
Tyfield (2008) used some recent discussions about "meaning finitism" to conclude that
the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is an intellectually hopeless basis on
which to erect an intelligible study of science. In contrast, the authors show that
Tyfield's argument rests on some profound misunderstandings of the sociology of scientific
knowledge. They show that his mischaracterization of SSK is in fact systematic and
is based on lines of argument that themselves are at best incoherent.
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E. Roy Weintraub
Professor Emeritus of Economics
Roy Weintraub was trained as a mathematician though his professional career has been
as an economist. Beginning in the early 1980s, his research and teaching activities
focused upon the history of the interconnection between mathematics and economics
in the twentieth century. This work, in the history of economics, has helped shape
the understanding of economists and historians: his General Equilibrium Theory (1985), Stabilizing
Dynamics (1991),
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