Facts, Values and Objectivity
19-20 March 2010, CES Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Coimbra
Presentation
By proposing a reflection on “Facts, Values and Objectivity” we do not intend to revisit past controversies on the same terms. Our concern is with questions insufficiently addressed that are presently becoming urgent, such as:
1. At a time when the normative burden of economics is increasing we still lack a clear understanding of how to engage as economists in deliberations that necessarily involve ends and values.
2. “The ethos of social science” – wrote Myrdal in the opening of Objectivity in Social Research – “is the search for ‘objective’ truth”.
3. Given the changes in the institutional context of the creation of economic knowledge, namely its increasing commodification, the ethical pressures and challenges are mounting. More and more economists are aware of epistemic and normative uncertainties: Program
Friday, 19 March
10:15-10:30 Opening Session
José Reis
10:30-12:45 Facts, values and objectivity: old debates revisited
Luís Francisco Carvalho
On the split between the ‘science’ and the ‘art’ of political economy: what can we learn from nineteenth-century controversies?
José Castro Caldas / Vítor Neves
The meaning of objectivity: what can we learn from Robbins and Myrdal?
Ana C. Santos
Facts, values, preferences and the aspiration to neutrality: Lessons from recent developments in economics
Discussant: Nuno Martins
12:45-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:30 Keynote address
Ricardo Crespo
Practical Reasoning in Economic Affairs: The HD Index as a Case Study
15:30-17:00 Realism and normativity in economics and political philosophy
Nuno Martins
Ethics, Ontology and Economics
Mathias Thaler
On the relationship between realism, normativity and critique: Some thoughts about Raymond Geuss’s political philosophy
Discussant: João Cardoso Rosas
17:00-17:30 Coffee-break
17:30-18:45 Keynote address
Sheila C. Dow
Economics and Moral Sentiments: The Case of Moral Hazard
Saturday, 20 March
9:30-11:00 Science in the public space
Manuel Branco
Economics against human rights
Laura Centemeri
The “conventional” objectivity of public space: how to think about the questionability of what we need to be unquestionable.
Discussant: Vítor Neves
11:00-11:30 Coffee-break
11:30-13:00
João Gata
Economic Science and Competition Policy: a fruitful relationship?
João Arriscado Nunes
Steps to a new political economy of life and health
Discussant: José Castro Caldas
13:00 Closure
Registration
Registration fee includes lunch on the 19th and coffee-breaks.
Registration until 10 March 2010
Online registration at www.ces.uc.pt/eventos/2_foundationseconomics.php
By proposing a reflection on “Facts, Values and Objectivity” we do not intend to revisit past controversies on the same terms. Our concern is with questions insufficiently addressed that are presently becoming urgent, such as:
1. At a time when the normative burden of economics is increasing we still lack a clear understanding of how to engage as economists in deliberations that necessarily involve ends and values.
2. “The ethos of social science” – wrote Myrdal in the opening of Objectivity in Social Research – “is the search for ‘objective’ truth”.
3. Given the changes in the institutional context of the creation of economic knowledge, namely its increasing commodification, the ethical pressures and challenges are mounting. More and more economists are aware of epistemic and normative uncertainties: Program
Friday, 19 March
10:15-10:30 Opening Session
José Reis
10:30-12:45 Facts, values and objectivity: old debates revisited
Luís Francisco Carvalho
On the split between the ‘science’ and the ‘art’ of political economy: what can we learn from nineteenth-century controversies?
José Castro Caldas / Vítor Neves
The meaning of objectivity: what can we learn from Robbins and Myrdal?
Ana C. Santos
Facts, values, preferences and the aspiration to neutrality: Lessons from recent developments in economics
Discussant: Nuno Martins
12:45-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:30 Keynote address
Ricardo Crespo
Practical Reasoning in Economic Affairs: The HD Index as a Case Study
15:30-17:00 Realism and normativity in economics and political philosophy
Nuno Martins
Ethics, Ontology and Economics
Mathias Thaler
On the relationship between realism, normativity and critique: Some thoughts about Raymond Geuss’s political philosophy
Discussant: João Cardoso Rosas
17:00-17:30 Coffee-break
17:30-18:45 Keynote address
Sheila C. Dow
Economics and Moral Sentiments: The Case of Moral Hazard
Saturday, 20 March
9:30-11:00 Science in the public space
Manuel Branco
Economics against human rights
Laura Centemeri
The “conventional” objectivity of public space: how to think about the questionability of what we need to be unquestionable.
Discussant: Vítor Neves
11:00-11:30 Coffee-break
11:30-13:00
João Gata
Economic Science and Competition Policy: a fruitful relationship?
João Arriscado Nunes
Steps to a new political economy of life and health
Discussant: José Castro Caldas
13:00 Closure
Registration
Registration fee includes lunch on the 19th and coffee-breaks.
Registration until 10 March 2010
Online registration at www.ces.uc.pt/eventos/2_foundationseconomics.php
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