Daniel M. Hausman (born March 27, 1947 in

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) is an American

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. His research has focussed primarily on methodological, metaphysical, and ethical issues at the boundaries between

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and

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. He is currently Herbert A. Simon Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the

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Life and career

Hausman grew up in Chicago suburbs. He attended Harvard College, first majoring in biochemistry, then changing to English literature and history (B.A., magna cum laude, 1969). From there, he went to New York University for a Teaching degree (M.A.T., 1971), then on to study

moral science Human science (or human sciences in the plural), also known as humanistic social science and moral science (or moral sciences), studies the philosophical, biological, social, and cultural aspects of human life. Human science aims to expand our u ...

s at Cambridge University (B.A., 1973; M.A, 1977) and philosophy at Columbia University (M.Phil., 1975; Ph.D., 1978). Hausman taught philosophy at the

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and Carnegie-Mellon University, before joining the faculty at Wisconsin in 1988.Dan Hausman - University of Wisconsin–Madison Philosophy Department
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/ref> Hausman was a founding co-editor (with Michael McPherson) of the journal ''Economics and Philosophy'', which he co-edited for ten years from 1985. He has written or edited seven books and some 130 published papers. He is currently working on a book on preferences and on related questions concerning the measurement of health. Along with

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, he is a philosophical critic of economics. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2009.

Selected publications

* Daniel M. Hausman, 1981. ''Capital, Profits, and Prices: An Essay in the Philosophy of Economics'', Columbia. Chapte
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* _____, 1992a. ''Essays on Philosophy and Economic Methodology''
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* _____, 1992b. ''The Inexact and Separate Science of Economics''
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* _____, 1998. ''Causal Asymmetries'', Cambridge
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* _____, 2001. "Economics: Philosophy of," '' International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences'', v. 6, pp. 4159–65
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* _____, 2001. "Explanation and Diagnosis in Economics," ''Revue Internationale De Philosophie'', 55, pp. 311–26

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* _____, 2008. "Fairness and Social Norms," ''Philosophy of Science'', 75(5), pp. 850–860
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* _____, 2009a. "Equality of Autonomy," ''Ethics'', 119(4),
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* Daniel M. Hausman and Michael S. McPherson,

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2006. ''Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy'', 2nd ed. Cambridge.
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* _____, 2009. "Preference Satisfaction and Welfare Economics," ''Economics and Philosophy'', 25 (1):1-25
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* Daniel M. Hausman and Brynn Welch, 2010. "Debate: To Nudge or Not to Nudge," ''Journal of Political Philosophy'', 18(1), pp
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Awards

* May 23, 2015 - A day-long Conference was held to honor the work of Daniel M. Hausman by the Philosophy Department of the

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/ref> June 6, 2016 - Hausman received the Philosopher's Stone at the University of Bayreuth.

References

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Dan Hausman - University of Wisconsin–Madison Philosophy Department
* Daniel M. Hausman

Works by Daniel M. Hausman
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Life and career

Selected publications

Awards

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