This article reviews the relatively recent trend in economic methodology that consists in
bringing insights from the debate in philosophy of science on values in science in order to …

There is a growing consensus among philosophers of science that core parts of the scientific
process involve non-epistemic values. This undermines the traditional foundation for public …

Taking some controversial claims philosopher Jason Brennan makes in his book Against
Democracy (Brennan 2016) as a starting point, this paper argues in favour of two theses:(1) …

Modelling is a major method of inquiry in health economics. In other modelling-intensive
fields, such as climate science, recent scholarship has described how social and ethical …

Philosophers of science now broadly agree that doing good science involves making non-
epistemic value judgments. I call attention to two very different normative standards which …

This paper addresses one of the most fundamental, but least considered, questions in
housing research: how should we ultimately evaluate housing outcomes? Rejecting the fact …

The inclusion of rigorous measures and methods by researchers often influence a reviewer's
and editor's decision about whether an article is accepted. In positivist research, studies that …

Jeffrey Friedman's Power Without Knowledge argues forcefully that there are inherent
limitations to the predictability of human action, due to a circumstance he calls “ideational …

In this paper I shall defend the idea that there is an abstract and general core meaning of
objectivity, and what is seen as a variety of concepts or conceptions of objectivity are in fact …

Background Patient involvement in health economics modeling has been advocated on
numerous grounds, including as a way to better manage social and ethical value judgments …