Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Epistemology Naturalized

Maybe I'm a bit slow, but reading this paper, I realized that economics has inherited Quine's program of naturalized epistemology.

Microeconomics and so-called neuroeconomics are both an attempt to understand human judgment (as opposed to choice) under uncertainty. Interestingly, I argued some time ago that Quine's suggestion was doomed to commit, essentially, the naturalistic fallacy.

In short, I'm becoming persuaded that I was mistaken.

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