Chapters in Books

1. Hoover, KD, Pragmatism, perspectival realism, and econometrics, in Economics for Real: Uskali Maki and the Place of Truth in Economics, edited by Aki Lehtinen, Jaakko Kuorikoski and Petri Ylikoski (January, 2013), pp. 221-240, Routledge [doi].
   (last updated on 2024/04/25)

   Abstract:
   Econometricians tend to hold simultaneously two views in tension with each other: an apparent anti-realism, which holds that all models are false and at best useful constructs or approximations to true models, and an apparent realism, on which models are to be judged by their success at capturing an independent reality. This tension is resolved starting from Ronald Giere’s perspectival realism. Perspectival realism can itself be seen as a species of pragmatism, as that term is understood by its originator, Charles S. Peirce.