Areas of specialization: philosophy of economics and general philosophy of science
Areas of competence: philosophy of religion, epistemology, logic, microeconomics, Austrian economics, history of economic thought.
My main research interest circles around the epistemic role of models in economics. Models in (micro)economics are highly idealized and distort their (supposed) target system in several ways. I am concerning the question whether such models can represent their target system in some way or not. And closely connected to that whether such models can be explanatory or not.
Beside this I’m contemplating about how the debates about different kinds of realism, antirealism and instrumentalism are pertinent and applicable to economics. Regarding methodology I’m mostly thinking about the a priori element in economics.
Thus, I plan to write a paper about realism, antirealism, and instrumentalism in economics and one dealing with the a priori in economics. My thesis be about the epistemic role of economic models.
I hope I will get insights to these question by studying the history of economic thought and some “non-mainstream” economic thinkers like those of the Austrian school.