?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Could+there+be+a+science+of+Economics%3F&rft.creator=Dupre%2C+J.&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=Much+scientific+thinking+and+thinking+about+science+involves+assumptions+that+there+is+a+deep+and+pervasive+order+to+the+world+that+it+is+the+business+of+science+to+disclose.+A+paradigmatic+statement+of+such+a+view+can+be+found+in+a+widely+discussed+paper+by+a+prominent+economist%2C+Milton+Friedman+(a+paper+which+will+be+discussed+in+more+detail+shortly)%3A+A+fundamental+hypothesis+of+science+is+that+appearances+are+deceptive+and+that+there+is+a+way+of+looking+at+or+interpreting+or+organizing+the+evidence+that+will+reveal+superficially+disconnected+and+diverse+phenomena+to+be+manifestations+of+a+more+fundamental+and+relatively+simple+structure.+(1953%2F1984%2C+p.231)+On+the+other+hand%2C+the+person+sometimes+described+as+the+father+of+modern+science%2C+Francis+Bacon%2C+wrote%3A+The+human+understanding+is+of+its+own+nature+prone+to+suppose+the+existence+of+more+order+and+regularity+in+the+world+than+it+finds.+And+though+there+be+many+things+in+nature+which+are+singular+and+unmatched%2C+yet+it+devises+for+them+conjugates+and+relatives+which+do+not+exist.+(1620%2F1960%2C+p.+50).&rft.date=1993&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F347%2F1%2FECONOMI.htm&rft.identifier=++Dupre%2C+J.++(1993)+Could+there+be+a+science+of+Economics%3F++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F347%2F