Econometrics is seen as the dominant method in terms of applicability, accuracy and efficiency in economic science. It is widely used and other methods have been reduced to marginal contributions. Econometricians behave as if their techniques were universal when in fact they are not. If alternative methods are accepted, one can largely eliminate the restrictions and distance to reality of econo...

1 Introduction A pluralist approach to teaching economics needs to deal with the particular challenge

Economics is a typical resource for social epistemology and the division of labour is a common theme for economics. As such it should come as no surprise that the present paper turns to economics to formulate a view on the dynamics of scientific communities, with precursors such as Kitcher (1990), Goldman and Shaked (1991) and Hull (1988). But although the approach is similar to theirs, the vie...

This paper brings together results from the philosophy and the psychology of explanation to argue that there are multiple concepts of explanation in human psychology. Specifically, it is shown that pluralism about explanation coheres with the multiplicity of models of explanation available in the philosophy of science, and it is supported by evidence from the psychology of explanatory judgment....

Many frameworks for the writing of urban history in South Asia have interpreted the city as aspace of socio-political organisation, rather than an object of thought itself. By contrast, thisarticle examines how a mythologised version of Lucknow’s illustrious pre-colonial history,particularly its supposed cultural refinement (tehzib), was evoked in the colonial-era city.Examining...