PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SEMINAR, K. Martinas

Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SEMINAR (http://hps.elte.hu/seminar) ________________________________________________ 5 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Language: English, except all participants speak Hungarian) K a t a l i n M a r t i n a s Atomic Physics, Eotvos University, Budapest Mathematics and Theoretical Economics Some questions raised by the Post Autistic Economics Movement In June, 2000 a small group of economics students of Ecole Normale Superiore put on the web a petition protesting against economics' "uncontrolled use of mathematics". This indulgence, it said, creates "a true schizophrenia" because the mathematics has "become an end in itself" resulting in an "autistic science". Since that time PAE became a worldwide movement, with the following petition: We, economics students in the universities of ..., declare ourselves to be generally dissatisfied with the teaching that we receive. This is so for the following reasons: 1. We wish to escape from imaginary worlds! 2. We oppose the uncontrolled use of mathematics! 3. We are for a pluralism of approaches in economics! 4. Call to teachers: wake up before it is too late! We no longer want to have this autistic science imposed on us. In the lecture the logical structure of theoretical (mathematical) economics will be summarized, to pinpoint the causes of this present schizophrenia. The organizer of the seminar: László E. Szabó -- Laszlo E. Szabo Department of Theoretical Physics Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Home: (36-1) 200-7318 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo *-----------------------------------------------------------------------* | A FIZINFO a fizikus informacios rendszer resze | | | | Cikk, hozzaszolas a | | | | Fizinfo(a)lists.kfki.hu | | | | cimre kuldheto. Ilyenkor a subject-sorba a cikk cimet kell irni. | | A cikk szovege a level torzse. Ez sima szoveg legyen! | | | | Informacio: http://sunserv.kfki.hu/mailman/listinfo/fizinfo | | | | A beerkezo levelek feldolgozasat program vegzi. Az emberi valaszt | | igenylo kerest, kerdest az alabbi cimek valamelyikere lehet megirni: | | | | Jenik Livia jenik(a)rmki.kfki.hu | | Kiraly Peterne kiraly(a)sunserv.kfki.hu | | | *-----------------------------------------------------------------------*