Books By Harold Kincaid, Jeroen van Bouwel - Author

Harold Kincaid is Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town. His research concerns issues in the philosophy of science and philosophy of social and behavioral science as well as experimental work in economics on, among other things, risk and time attitudes, trust and addiction. He is the author or editor of 13 books starting with The Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences: Analyzing Controversies in Social Research (1996) and many journal articles and book chapters. Recent or forthcoming work includes the Elgar Companion to Philosophy of Economics with Don Ross (2021) and articles or book chapters on objectivity in the social sciences, improving causal inference in economics, the role of mechanisms in the social sciences, agent-based models, classifying mental disorders, the risk-trust confound, and prospect theory. He has been associate editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology and Chair of the International Network for Economic Methodology. Jeroen Va