Seminário 
2nd CES International Seminar on the Foundations of Economics
Facts, Values and Objectivity

Centro de Estudos Sociais
Colégio de S. Jerónimo, Coimbra
19-20 March 2010


Papers


Opening Session
José Reis
 
Facts, values and objectivity: old debates revisited

Luís Francisco Carvalho
On the split between the ‘science’ and the ‘art’ of political economy: what can we learn from nineteenth-century controversies?

José Castro Caldas / Vítor Neves
The meaning of objectivity: what can we learn from Robbins and Myrdal?

Ana C. Santos
Facts, values, preferences and the aspiration to neutrality: Lessons from recent developments in economics


Discussant: Nuno Martins
 
Keynote address
Ricardo Crespo
Practical Reasoning in Economic Affairs: The HD Index as a Case Study
 
Realism and normativity in economics and political philosophy

Nuno Martins
The Epistemic Values of Mainstream Economics

Mathias Thaler
Deep Contextualism and Radical Criticism: The Argument for a Division of Labor

Discussant: João Cardoso Rosas
 
Keynote address
Sheila C. Dow
Economics and Moral Sentiments: The Case of Moral Hazard
 
Science in the public space

Manuel Branco
Economics against human rights

Laura Centemeri
The “conventional” objectivity of public space: how to think about the questionability of what we need to be unquestionable.


Discussant: Vítor Neves


João Gata
Economic Science and Competition Policy: a fruitful relationship?

João Arriscado Nunes
Embodied expectations: the somatic subject and the changing political economy of life and health

Discussant: José Castro Caldas