Year: 2014
Type: other
Abstract: During the first decade of the twenty-first century, "neuroeconomics" saw the light of day. In this new field of research, economists and psychologists join forces with neuroscientists to unravel the nature of economic and social decision-making. Among the objects they investigate is a crucial element of, allegedly, all social interaction: trust. This dissertation analyses the ways in which neuroeconomics stylizes trust, how, in the process, sociality en human nature are conceptualized in neuroeconomics, and why the results of neuroeconomic research should or should not be trusted. The sociological and philosophical approach to science pioneered by Ludwik Fleck provides the basic framework for this. It is argued that neuroeconomics owes its force more to the density of connections of the network it is part of, than to its own independent solidity or to the unassailability of any of its individual components.
Author: Pim Klaassen
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2131440761