Economics and Social Ontology in Cambridge

Yannick Slade-Caffarel ()
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Yannick Slade-Caffarel: PHARE - Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Économiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, King‘s College London

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Abstract: Cambridge Social Ontology is among the longest running continuous research projects in economics and philosophy. Building on a critique of the modern mainstream of economics and its insistence on the use of mathematical modelling, the project emphasises the importance of social ontology – the study of the nature and basic structure of social reality – for both economics and the social sciences more generally. In this paper, I explore the context in which this project has developed. I begin with a discussion of the history of the project and its development through meetings of the Cambridge Realist Workshop and, more recently, the Cambridge Social Ontology Group. I then explore the relationship between Cambridge Social Ontology and two different philosophical approaches, critical realism – most notably the work of Roy Bhaskar – as well as with analytic approaches to social ontology and, most importantly, the work of John Searle.

Keywords: Social Ontology; Heterodox Economics; Critical Realism; Social Positioning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-12
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Published in Syzetesis - Rivista di filosofia, 2022, IX, pp.313-330. ⟨10.53242/syzetesis/44⟩

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DOI: 10.53242/syzetesis/44

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