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SUMMARY:Causal explanation and revealed preferences - Kate Vredenburgh (Lo
 ndon School of Economics)
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
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 hps-departmental-seminar-tickets-196476595787\n\nRevealed preference appro
 aches to modelling choice in the social sciences face seemingly devastatin
 g predictive\, explanatory\, and normative objections. In this talk\, I wi
 ll focus on predictive and explanatory objections\, and offer two defences
 . First\, I argue that when revealed preferences are multiple realizable\,
  revealed preferences can causally explain behaviour well. But\, considera
 tions of multiple realizability open the revealed preference theorist to a
 n equally plausible interpretation of these models\, that they pick out a 
 coarse grained psychological disposition. Second\, I argue that when agent
 ial preferences cannot be easily analytically separated from the environme
 nt that produces the relevant behaviour\, revealed preferences also causal
 ly explain\, if one adopts a counterfactual dependence account of causal e
 xplanation. An upshot of these two arguments is an explanatory argument ag
 ainst a unified dispositional interpretation of 'preference'.
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom
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