ALAN J. NELSON

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

I. Texts by Alan Nelson

• "Are Economic Kinds Natural?" In C. Wade Savage, ed., Scientific Theories, pp. 102-135. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 14. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990.

• "Arrow's Paradox." In Robert Audi, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, p. 46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

• "Average Explanations." Erkenntnis (March 1989), 30(12):33-42.

  Reprinted in Wolfgang Stegmuller, Wolfgang Balzer and Wolfgang Spohn, eds., Philosophy of Economics: Proceedings, Munich, July 1981. Studies in Contemporary Economics, 2. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1982.

  "Cartesian Actualism in the Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence." Canadian Journal of Philosophy (December 1993), 23(4):675-694.

  (with Lex Newman.) "Circumventing Cartesian Circles." Nous (September 1999), 33(3):370-404.

  (with David Cunning.) "Cognition and Modality in Descartes." Acta Philosophica Fennica (1999), 64:137-153.

  "Descartes's Ontology." Topoi (September 1997), 16(2):103-109.

  "Descartes's Ontology of Thought - Philosophy." Topoi (September 1997), 16 (2):163-178.

  "Economic Idealization and the Role of Experiment." Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of Sciences and the Humanities. [Forthcoming]

  "Economic Rationality and Morality." Philosophy and Public Affairs (Spring 1988), 17(2):149-166.

  "Explanation and Justification in Political Philosophy." Ethics (October 1986), 97(1):154-176.

  "The Falsity in Sensory Ideas." In Elmar J. Kremer, ed., Interpreting Arnauld. Toronto Studies in Philosophy. Toronto & Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1996.

  "How 'Could' Scientific Facts be Socially Constructed?" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (August 1994), 25(4):535-547.

  "Human Molecules." In Neil de Marchi, ed., Economic Methodology. Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer. [Forthcoming]

  "Ideal Market." In Robert Audi, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, p. 357. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  "Keynes, John Maynard." In Robert Audi, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, pp. 405-406. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  " Micro-Chaos and Idealization in Cartesian Physics." Philosophical Studies (March 1995), 77(2-3):377-391.

  "Mill, James." In Robert Audi, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, p. 493. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  "New Individualistic Foundations for Economics." Nous (December 1986), 20(4):469-490.

  Reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual (1986), 9:127-148.

  "On Attitudes toward Economic Science: A Reply to Caldwell." In Neil de Marchi, ed., Economic Methodology. Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer. [Forthcoming]

  "Perfect Competition." In Robert Audi, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, pp. 572-573. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  "Physical Properties." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (July-October 1985), 66(34):268-282.

  "Production Theory." In Robert Audi, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, pp. 654-655. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  Review of Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, ed., Essays on Descartes' Meditations Ethics (April 1987), 97(3):698.

  Review of Alexander Rosenberg's Economics: Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns?. Ethics (April 1994), 104(3):637-639.

  Review of Daniel Little's Varieties of Social Explanation Ethics (January 1993), 103(2):404-406.

  Review of Elmar J. Kremer's The Great Arnauld and Some of His Philosophical Correspondents. Journal of the History of Philosophy (July 1996), 34(3):461-462.

  Review of Frank Hahn's Equilibrium and Macroeconomics. Economics and Philosophy (April 1986), 2(1):148-155.

  Review of Gordon C. Winston's and Richard F. Teichgraeber III's The Boundaries of Economics. Ethics (April 1989), 99(3):675.

  Review of Johannes J. Klant's The Rules of the Game: The Logical Structure of Economic Theories. Ethics. [Forthcoming]

  Review of John E. Roemek's Value, Exploitation and Class. Ethics (October 1989), 100(1):211.

  Review of John R. Searle's The Construction of Social Reality. Ethics (October 1997), 108(1):208-210.

  Review of Marjorie Grene's Descartes (1985). Ethics (January 1987), 97(2):489-491.

  Review of Nicholas Rescher's Cognitive Economy: An Inquiry into the Economic Dimension of the Theory of Knowledge. Philosophia (July 1994), 23(1-4):323-331.

  Review of Paul A. Roth's Meaning and Method in the Social Sciences: A Case for Methodological Pluralism. Philosophical Review (July 1992), 101(3):679-681.

  Review of René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies, Translated by John Cottingham. Teaching Philosophy (December 1987), 10(4):353-355.

  Review of Subroto Roy's Philosophy of Economics: On the Scope of Reason in Economic Inquiry. Ethics (July 1991), 101(4):883-885.

  "Saving Economics from Philosophy." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1984.

  "Social Choice Theory." In Robert Audi, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, p. 745. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  "Social Science and the Mental." In Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr. and Howard K. Wettstein, eds., The Philosophy of the Human Sciences, pp. 194-209. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 15. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990.

  "Some Issues Surrounding the Reduction of Macroeconomics to Microeconomics." Philosophy of Science (December 1984), 51(4):573-594.

II. Texts about Alan Nelson

• Rosenberg, Alexander. "The Explanatory Role of Existence Proofs." Ethics (October 1986), 97:177-186.

• Woodward, James. " Explanation in Social Theory: Comments on Alan Nelson's 'Explanation and Justification in Political Philosophy'." Ethics (October 1986), 97(1):177.

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