What is extreme about Mises' extreme apriorism?

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There is something extreme about Mises' apriorism, namely, his epistemological justification of the a priori element(s) of economic theory. His critics have long recognized and attacked the extremeness of Mises' epistemology of a priori knowledge. However, several of his defenders have glossed or ignored what is (and what has long been recognized by his critics to be) extreme about Mises' apriorism. Thus, the argument is directed less against Mises than those contributions to the secondary literature that assert his methodological moderation while glossing or plainly ignoring what the most prominent critics have found extreme about Mises' apriorism. Defending Mises as a merely moderate apriorist because he held only a narrow part of the foundation of economics to be a priori is a straw-man defense against criticisms of his apriorism as epistemologically extreme.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CHOPE Working Paper ; No. 2016-23

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; History of Economic Thought since 1925: Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Austrian; Stockholm School ; History of Economic Thought: Individuals ; Economic Methodology ; Current Heterodox Approaches: Austrian
• Subject: Ludwig von Mises ; Austrian economics ; methodology ; apriorism

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Scheall, Scott
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE)
• (where): Durham, NC
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/155452
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET