Uskali Mäki 

Dhr. Prof. Dr. Uskali Mäki

Academy Professor, Academy of Finland

Department of Social and Moral Philosophy
P.O. Box 9 (Siltavuorenpenger)
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland

Tel +358-(0)9-191 29298

Email uskali.maki@helsinki.fi

TINT [Trends and tensions in Intellectual Integration]

EIPE [Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics]

International Network for Economic Method

The Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics

Areas of interest and expertise

Philosophy of economics, Economic methodology, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of social sciences, Social studies of science, Social ontology, Social epistemology, Rhetoric of inquiry.

Fresh publications

• Mäki, Uskali (2009):“Economics imperialism: Concept and constraints”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 39 (3), September 2009, 351-380.
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• Mäki, Uskali (ed.) (2009). The Methodology of Positive Economics. Reflections on the Milton Friedman Legacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 382pp.
• Mäki, Uskali (2009): “Reading the methodological essay in twentieth century economics: Map of multiple perspectives”, in The Methodology of Positive Economics. Reflections on the Milton Friedman Legacy, ed. U. Mäki. Cambridge University Press, 2009. pp. 47-67.
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• Mäki, Uskali (2009): “Unrealistic assumptions and unnecessary confusions: Rereading and rewriting F53 as a realist statement”, in The Methodology of Positive Economics. Reflections on the Milton Friedman Legacy, ed. U. Mäki. Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 90-116.
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• Mäki, Uskali: "Models and truth. The functional decomposition approach", forthcoming in
  European Philosophy of Science 2007. Springer 2009
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• "Realism from the ‘lands of Kaleva’: an interview with Uskali Mäki", Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Volume 1, Issue 1, Autumn 2008, pp. 124-146.
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• Mäki, Uskali: "Models and the locus of their truth" to appear in Synthese
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• Mäki, Uskali (2009): "MISSing the world: Models as isolations and credible surrogate systems", Erkenntnis, vol. 70, no.1, 29-43
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• Mäki, Uskali (2008): "Method and appraisal in economics: 1976-2006", Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 15, no. 4, 409-423
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• Mäki, Uskali and Caterina Marchionni (2009): “On the structure of explanatory unification: The case of geographical economics”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 40, 2/2009, 185–195.
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• Mäki, Uskali (2009): “Realistic realism about unrealistic models”, in A Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics, ed. Harold Kincaid and Don Ross. Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. 68-98.
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• Mäki, Uskali (2008) "Putnam's realisms: A view from the social sciences", in Approaching Truth. Essays in Honour of Ilkka Niiniluoto, ed. S. Pihlström, P. Raatikainen, M. Sintonen. College Publications 2008. Pp. 295-306.
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• Mäki, Uskali (2008) “Realism and ontology” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of
  Economics, 2nd edition. Macmillan.
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• Mäki, Uskali (2008) “Philosophy of economics” in Routledge Companion to the
  Philosophy of Science, edited by Martin Curd and Stathis Psillos. Routledge.
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• “Remarks on models and their truth”, Storia del Pensiero Economico, 3 (1/2006), 7-19.
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• “Reglobalising realism by going local, or (how) should our formulations of scientific realism be informed about the sciences” Erkenntnis, 63 (2005), 231-251.
• “Economic epistemology: Hopes and horrors”, Episteme. A Journal of Social Epistemology, 1 (3), February 2005, 211-220.
• “Models are experiments, experiments are models”, Journal of Economic Methodology, 12 (2005), 303-315.
• "Realism and the nature of theory: A lesson from J.H. von Thünen for economists and geographers", Environment and Planning A, 36 (2004), 1719-1736.
• "The narrow notion of realism in human geography", Environment and Planning A, 36 (2004), 1755-1776 (with Päivi Oinas)
• “Some truths about truth for economists, their critics and clients”, in Economic Policy-Making under Uncertainty: The Role of Truth and Accountability in Policy Advice, ed. P. Mooslechner, H. Schuberth, and M. Schurtz. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2004. Pp. 9-39.
• "Theoretical isolation and explanatory progress: Transaction cost economics and the dynamics of dispute", Cambridge Journal of Economics, 28 (3), May 2004, 319-346.