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Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy (2019)
Journal Article
Reiss, J. (2019). Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy. Social Epistemology, 33(2), 183-192. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2019.1577513

Taking some controversial claims philosopher Jason Brennan makes in his book Against Democracy (Brennan 2016) as a starting point, this paper argues in favour of two theses: (1) There is No Such Thing as Superior Political Judgement; (2) There Is No... Read More about Expertise, Agreement, and the Nature of Social Scientific Facts or: Against Epistocracy.

Suppes’ probabilistic theory of causality and causal inference in economics (2016)
Journal Article
Reiss, J. (2016). Suppes’ probabilistic theory of causality and causal inference in economics. Journal of Economic Methodology, 23(3), 289-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2016.1189127

This paper examines Patrick Suppes’ probabilistic theory of causality understood as a theory of causal inference, and draws some lessons for empirical economics and contemporary debates in the foundations of econometrics. It argues that a standard me... Read More about Suppes’ probabilistic theory of causality and causal inference in economics.

Two Approaches to Reasoning From Evidence or What Econometrics Can Learn From Biomedical Research (2014)
Journal Article
Reiss, J. (2015). Two Approaches to Reasoning From Evidence or What Econometrics Can Learn From Biomedical Research. Journal of Economic Methodology, 22(3), 373-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2015.1071510

This paper looks at an appeal to the authority of biomedical research that has recently been used by empirical economists to motivate and justify their methods. I argue that those who make this appeal mistake the nature of biomedical research. Random... Read More about Two Approaches to Reasoning From Evidence or What Econometrics Can Learn From Biomedical Research.

Struggling over the Soul of Economics: Objectivity versus Expertise (2014)
Book Chapter
Reiss, J. (2014). Struggling over the Soul of Economics: Objectivity versus Expertise. In M. Boumans, & C. Martini (Eds.), Experts and consensus in social science (131-152). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08551-7_7

The topics of this chapter are the notion of objectivity and the role for experts in economics. It will argue that core methodological debates are at heart debates about the notion of objectivity and about how objective a science economics can and sh... Read More about Struggling over the Soul of Economics: Objectivity versus Expertise.

What's Wrong With Our Theories of Evidence? (2014)
Journal Article
Reiss, J. (2014). What's Wrong With Our Theories of Evidence?. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 29(2), 283-306. https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.10782

This paper reviews all major theories of evidence such as the Bayesian theory, hypothetico-deductivism, satisfaction theories, error-statistics, Achinstein's explanationist theory and Cartwright's argument theory. All these theories fail to take adeq... Read More about What's Wrong With Our Theories of Evidence?.