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| Philosophy of Science: Rationality, Growth, Ignorance, Objectivity, and Criticism | |
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| The Problems | |
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| The Decline of Logical Positivism | |
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| The Pendulum Swings in the Other Direction: Sociological Explanations in Science | |
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| Michael Polanyi: Personal and Tacit Knowledge | |
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| Ludwik Fleck: Denkkollektiv and Denkstil | |
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| Thomas Kuhn's Scientific Revolutions | |
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| The Popperian School | |
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| Sir Karl Popper | |
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| Hume's Problem, or the Problem of Induction | |
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| Critical Rationalism and the Tie to Falsification | |
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| Why Falsification Fails | |
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| Imre Lakatos: Metaphysics Transformed into the Methodology of Scientific Research Programs | |
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| The Revival of the Duhem Thesis | |
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| Behind the Methodology of Scientific Research Programs | |
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| Paul Feyerabend, the "Dadasoph," | |
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| "Anything Goes!" and Proliferation | |
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| What Feyerabend is Actually Against is Modern Education | |
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| Why Feyerabend is Really a "Rationalist in Disguise," or Why Feyerabend Doesn't Deserve to be a "Darling of the Left," | |
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| Dadasophia or Dadasophistry? | |
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| William Bartley: Pancritical Rationalism | |
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| Whither the History of Science? | |
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| History and the Philosophy of Science | |
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| Stephen Toulmin | |
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| Norwood Russell Hanson | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Economics and the Philosophy of Science | |
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| Philosophy's Influence on Economics: Early Exchanges | |
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| Sir Karl Popper's Philosophy of the Social Sciences: A Disjointed Whole | |
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| Economics: Queen of the Social Science | |
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| The Polemical Element: The Case Against Historicism | |
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| Rationality and Situational Logic | |
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| Why Falsification in Economics Fails | |
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| The Neglected Messages: Clarity and Criticism as Objective Method | |
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| Lakatos and Kuhn: Science as Consensus | |
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| Why Economicus Academicus Chose Lakatos as His Darling | |
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| Semantics Revisited: How "Paradigm" and "Research Program" Have Come to Mean Anything and Everything | |
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| Paradigms and SRPs Applied | |
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| The Drive to Be "Normal Scientists," | |
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| How "Normal" are Economists? | |
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| Why no Normal Scientist Would Ever Want to be Either "Normal" or "Revolutionary," | |
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| A Short Digression on the Development of Economics as a Profession | |
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| Communis Opinio Doctorum | |
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| A Short History of the Is-Ought Problem | |
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| Economists Whose First Work or Works Deal with Methodological and/or Philosophical Topics | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |