Tony Lawson
Tony Lawson | |
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Lawson in 2010 | |
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| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Philosophical work | |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Critical realism, Cambridge social ontology |
| Main interests | Philosophy of economics, ontology, ethics, gender |
| Notable ideas | Social positioning theory, critical ethical naturalism, contrast explanation, neoclassical economics as a (contradictory) position in social ontology, quantum social theorising with relational depth, irrelevance of mathematical economic modelling |
| Website | Homepage |
Tony Lawson is a British philosopher and economist. He is professor of economics and philosophy in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is a co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, a former director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, and co-founder of the Cambridge Realist Workshop and the Cambridge Social Ontology Group. Lawson is noted for his contributions to heterodox economics and to philosophical issues in social theorising, most especially to social ontology.