Professor Harold Kincaid

Professor Harold Kincaid is an influential philosopher of the social sciences. Currently, he is a senior research scholar and emeritus professor at the University of Cape Town where he also served as Director of the Research Unit for Behavioural Economics and Neuroeconomics.

His research focus started out on the philosophy of social science, and later on, he added the topics of the philosophy of economics, medicine and psychopathology. He also developed his understanding of causal inference and began a still ongoing body of empirical work on addiction and experimental elicitation of risk, time, and trust attitudes.

He was the associate editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology from 2005 to 2011, furthering his knowledge of economic methodology and playing a major role in a national prevalence study of addictive gambling in South Africa.

Prof Kincaid’s research outputs over the last eight years include 12 peer-reviewed journal articles and 16 book chapters. His experimental and behavioural economics work expanded during this time, resulting in two noteworthy articles: Prospect Theory in the Wild and The Trust Game Does Not (Only) Measure Trust: The Risk-Trust Confound Revisited.

He serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Medicine, and Oeconomia.