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Naturalism, Philosophy of Economics, and Addiction w/ Don Ross
Hi, everybody! To end this week, today I am releasing an interview with Dr. Don Ross. He is Head of the School of Sociology, Philosophy, Criminology, Government, and Politics at University College Cork, Ireland; Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa; and Program Director for Methodology at the Center for Economic Analysis of Risk at Georgia State University, USA. His research focuses on the foundations of economic theory, the experimental economics of addiction, risk, and time preference, philosophy of science, and infrastructure, trade and industry policy in Africa. He’s also the author of books like Economic Theory and Cognitive Science: Microexplanation; The Picoeconomics and Neuroeconomics of Disordered Gambling; and Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized and Philosophy of Economics.
In this episode, we first tackle the issue of the epistemological value of naturalism and the scientific method, and the role of philosophy in the modern world. Then, we talk about economics; the economic agent; rationality; the interplay between economics, psychology, and sociology; picoeconomics; and the neuroeconomics and picoeconomics of addictive behavior. We finish off by talking about how models of reality are always incomplete and limited, and about the conflict between reductionism and emergentism.
You can also watch it in two parts. Part 1: https://youtu.be/DmFQ2HfaL1U Part 2: https://youtu.be/Cs6jclfuKc8
And it's also available on my Anchor account, if you prefer the podcast version: https://anchor.fm/thedissenter
Direct links here
Complete interview: https://anchor.fm/thedissenter/episodes/133-Don-Ross-Naturalism--Philosophy-of-Economics--and-Addiction-e2s24s Part 1: https://anchor.fm/thedissenter/episodes/Don-Ross-Part-1-Naturalism--Philosophy--Economics-and-Social-Science-e2s253/a-a8bsn7 Part 2: https://anchor.fm/thedissenter/episodes/Don-Ross-Part-2-Picoeconomics--Addiction--Scientific-Models--and-Consilience-e2s255/a-a8bsnk
