Human society as a historical entity, and its historical course, so closest to formal definitions.
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Replying to @anti_minotaur @metadiogenes and
Yes, that's Hegel-Marx gradient. But then how to reformulate this question, namely, that of history, according to new sciences given that Marx identified the recognition of history as a fully scientific enterprise?
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @metadiogenes and
What Marx did with the introduction of the critique of ideology delimits the social sciences. The wissenschaft of history is ultimately a product of interests, (though this is not the same as relativism, because he also held that not also interests are equal).
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Replying to @anti_minotaur @metadiogenes and
Yes, but then we can't cut at the joints of the pathologies of history if we haven't understood the exact mechanisms that give rise to individual interests like rational choice theory.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @metadiogenes and
Rational choice theory is the exact sort of thing I'm criticizing. It reduces the shimmering complexity of society into arithmetic. It really doesn't matter whether you're calling it rational choice, evolutionary processes, or the wisdom of the ancients; it's the same story.
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Replying to @anti_minotaur @metadiogenes and
Then you should read Brandom's critique of it in Reason in Philosophy. One of the best.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @anti_minotaur and
For a 'classic' empirical critique of rational choice theory I'd recommend «Rationality in Psychology and Economics» by Simon. Skyrms is (the) great(est) for readings on limited rationality models.
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Replying to @jnegrogarcia @NegarestaniReza and
Today, RCT is something like the Invisible Hand, a credo that is only still alive in the interest of unscientific but widespread (socio)economic theories.
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Replying to @jnegrogarcia @NegarestaniReza and
I get the idea that the very top rung of economists don't often believe it much anymore, but because of the way economics is taught everyone still learns it and plenty keep believing it.
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Replying to @anti_minotaur @NegarestaniReza and
That's the thing to my knowledge too. Rational Choice Theory has no place anymore in experimental/innovative economics, but it has a strong academic presence, and correspondingly a strong public presence.
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You can't believe how strong it is in academia.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @anti_minotaur and
An article like the one by Simon I mentioned should be enough to throw any theory with scientificish ambitions away, and it was published in 1986! But here we are…
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Replying to @jnegrogarcia @anti_minotaur and
Can't find the video of an interview with Mirowski anymore. He thought Latour is bad, he had to deal with RCT theorists while facepalming.
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