Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Silvestri, Paolo
Author-Email: paolo.silvestri@unito.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: Disputed (Disciplinary) Boundaries. Philosophy, Economics, Value Judgments. 
Abstract: The paper aims to address the following two questions: what kind of discourse is that which attempt to found 
or defend the autonomy or the boundaries of a discipline? Why do such discourses tend to turn into normative, dogmatic-excommunicating 
discourses between disciplines, schools or scholars? I will argue that an adequate answer may be found if we conceive 
disciplines as dogmatics, where such discourses often take the form of a discourse on the foundation of a discipline, 
a foundation in the name of which the scholar speaks and with which he/she entertains an identity relationship. 
To this purpose I will re-examine the methodological discourses of (and debates between)Pareto, Croce and Einaudi on 
the demarcation issue between philosophy, economics and value-judgments as highly instructive to understand such issues.
Length: 34 pages
Creation-Date: 2015-09
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati/wp2015dip/wp_33_2015.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:cesmep:201504