This paper highlights the problems that neoclassical theory encounters in providing a comprehensive explanation of process economic change. Whereas institutionalism combined with conventionalism has merit conceptualising and social processes, showing institutions are result interaction not just structures produced by rational maximising individuals. The Economics Convention provides rules is cl...

For several decades, Carnap's philosophy of mathematics used to be either dismissed or ignored. It was perceived as a form linguistic conventionalism and thus taken rely on the bankrupt notion truth by convention. However, recent scholarship has revealed more subtle picture. been forcefully argued that Carnap is not conventionalist in any straightforward sense, supposedly decisive objections ag...

This paper defends the use-based metasemantic project against problem of meaning without use, which allegedly shows predictions accounts to be indeterminate with respect unusably long or complex expressions. criticism is commonly taken decisive, prompting various retreats and contributing project’s eventual decline. Using conventionalism as a case study, I argue following: either such expressio...