Revealed preference approaches to modelling agents’ choices face two seemingly devastating explanatory objections. The no self-explanation objection imputes a problematic explanatory circularity to revealed preference approaches, while the causal explanation objection argues that, all things equal, a scientific theory should provide causal explanations, but revealed preference approaches decidedly do not. Both objections assume a view of explanation, the constraint-based view, that the revealed preference theorist ought to reject. Instead, the revealed preference theorist should adopt a unificationist account of explanation, allowing her to escape the two explanatory problems discussed in this paper.

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对显性偏好的统一主义辩护

模拟代理人选择的显示偏好方法面临两个看似毁灭性的解释性反对意见。没有自我解释的反对将有问题的解释循环性归咎于揭示偏好方法，而因果解释反对认为，在所有条件相同的情况下，科学理论应该提供因果解释，但揭示偏好方法显然不提供。两种反对都假设了一种解释观点，即基于约束的观点，揭示偏好理论家应该拒绝这种观点。相反，显性偏好理论家应该采用统一主义的解释解释，让她摆脱本文讨论的两个解释问题。