Emil DINGA - Pleading for a Teleological Logic in Economics [Pledoarie pentru o logică teleologică în economie]

Alexandru POPOVICI - Critical Realism and the Philosophy of Economics [Realismul critic şi filosofia economiei]

Petre COMŞA, Costea MUNTEANU - A Personalist Approach to the Dialogue between Economics and Religion [O abordare personalistă a dialogului dintre economie şi religie]

Dragoş Constantin SANDA - A Critical Perspective on Contemporary Rapports between Science and Religion [O perspectivă critică asupra raporturilor contemporane dintre ştiinţă şi religie]

Dan Alexandru CHIŢĂ - Economics and Society in G.W.F. Hegel’s “Elements of the Philosophy of Law” [Economie şi societate în “Principiile filosofiei dreptului” de G.W.F. Hegel]

Ada MARINESCU - On Altruism in Economic Behaviour. Price Equation [Asupra altruismului în comportamentul economic. Ecuaţia Price]

Andrei SANDU - Microeconomic Foundations for Macroeconomic Phenomena. A Problem of Ontological (In)Dependence [Fundaţii microeconomice ale fenomenelor macroeconomice. O problemă de (in)dependenţă ontologică]

Alexandra Luana SMĂRĂNDOIU (SANDA) - A Critical Assessment of the European Social Dimension under 2020 Strategy [O evaluare critică a dimensiunii sociale europene sub auspiciile Strategiei 2020]

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Alianţa dintre filosofie şi ştiinţa economică este veche de când spiţele ştiinţelor s-au răsfirat în jurul butucului filosofic, după cum are şi o durabilitate ontică pe care coup-ul epistemic încercat (şi reuşit, dar mai degrabă într-un registru “democratic politic” al ştiinţei, dar nu în cel al “verităţii sincere”) nu o poate zdruncina. Panfizicalismul mecanicist este certat fiindcă a adus economia, de fapt blocul “ştiinţelor despre om”, la un secundariat apăsător, reducând cercetarea la un exerciţiu de explorare şi exploatare inginerească a acţiunii umane, cumva nelegitim şi nociv în sfera teleologică a subiectivităţii. Filosofia încearcă a-i recupera economiei întrebările fondatoare, într-o epocă a răspunsurilor politice care ascund, sub mantia sofisticării instrumentale, şubrezenia conceptuală a construcţiei economice. Fără a consuna întru totul în privinţa convingerilor epistemice, membrii Societăţii Române de Filosofia Economiei (SRFE) împărtăşesc preocuparea pentru schimbul liber de idei, amendat de vigilenţa critică, drept preambuluri “principiale” necesare pentru orice puseuri “pragmatice” de entuziasm rezolutiv.

THE PRAGMATISM OF PRINCIPLEDNESS [PRAGMATISMUL PRINCIPIALITĂŢII]

The status quo of economic science brings together four avatars: (A) maintaining the separation between subject and object, similar to the case of natural sciences; (B) maintaining the concept of the truth from natural sciences (including the Popperian falsifiability); (C) maintaining the bivalent logic (true values: true and, respectively, false); (D) maintaining the formalism from physics and mathematics.

Keywords: logic, teleology, epistemology, economics

JEL: A12, B41, B50

Pleading for a Teleological Logic in Economics [Pledoarie pentru o logică teleologică în economie]

Starting from an overview of the main concepts of critical realism, the paper places the philosophy of Roy Bhaskar into the context of contemporary ontology and theory of layered reality. Its developments in the field of economics, especially by Tony Lawson, are related to the methods proposed by critical realism for social sciences. Both the merits and the actual limits of these approaches are marked.

Keywords: social sciences, economics, philosophy, ontology, scientific methods

JEL: A12, B41, B50

Critical Realism and the Philosophy of Economics [Realismul critic şi filosofia economiei]

Many of the nowadays scientists think that religion can never come to terms with science. In sharp contrast with this widespread opinion, this paper argues that, historically, scientific reasoning and religious belief joined hands in their effort to investigate and understand reality. The present-day divorce between science and religion marks the final outcome of a gradual secularization of science.

Keywords: personalism, science, economics, religion

JEL: A12, B41, B50

A Personalist Approach to the Dialogue between Economics and Religion [O abordare personalistă a dialogului dintre economie şi religie]

Starting with modern times, science seems to have gained superiority to religion, its discourses being universally accepted at the expense of the religious visions. Most of the contemporary scholars firmly believe that science cannot reconcile with religion. This view emerges mainly from the conviction that science rests on accurate, objective and verifiable observations, unlike religion.

Keywords: science, religion, conflict, indifference, integration, dialog, interdisciplinary

JEL: Z12

A Critical Perspective on Contemporary Rapports between Science and Religion [O perspectivă critică asupra raporturilor contemporane dintre ştiinţă şi religie]

The paper focuses on G.W.F. Hegel’s theory of the family, the civil society and the state from a specific economic viewpoint. After analysing the main lines of argument in the second part of Hegel’s treatise on the philosophy of law, some basic social relations stand out – especially the interaction between individuals, estates and social classes mediated by the classical economic category of labour.

Keywords: economics, society, philosophy, law, Hegel

JEL: B1, K1

Economics and Society in G.W.F. Hegel’s “Elements of the Philosophy of Law” [Economie şi societate în “Principiile filosofiei dreptului” de G.W.F. Hegel]

We will discuss in this paper the relation between natural selection and altruism. While at the individual level, the altruistic behaviour reduces the fitness of an individual, at group level the behaviour of altruism produces as result a better adaptation to the environment. In this way, only altruism can contribute to evolution. We will present different perspectives on altruism.

Keywords: altruism, cooperation, selection, evolution

JEL: C71, D01, D64

On Altruism in Economic Behaviour. Price Equation [Asupra altruismului în comportamentul economic. Ecuaţia Price]

This essay will outline the case for microfoundations, before presenting the limitations which undermine both the representative-agent model as a means of reduction and the individualist claim that microfoundations are necessary for explanation of economic aggregates. If microfoundations are justifiable in certain contexts, demanding them as a validator of macroeconomics is hardly defendable.

Keywords: microfoundations, macroeconomics, representative-agent model, individualism

JEL: B41, D00, E00

Microeconomic Foundations for Macroeconomic Phenomena. A Problem of Ontological (In)Dependence [Fundaţii microeconomice ale fenomenelor macroeconomice. O problemă de (in)dependenţă ontologică]

Under multidimensional pressures, the social dimension of Europe, yet a very envied one by lots of nations from around the world, is now facing austere budgets, social imbalances, demographic gaps, public opinions based on extremely diverse political and economic rationales, and manifest market failures, the social burdens thus becoming even more obvious after the economic crisis.

Keywords: social dimension, smart, sustainable, inclusive, Europe

JEL: F6, Q20, Q50

A Critical Assessment of the European Social Dimension under 2020 Strategy [O evaluare critică a dimensiunii sociale europene sub auspiciile Strategiei 2020]

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