Apriorism and Positivism in the Social Sciences

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See also:

Praxeology: The Method of Economics


Further reading:

Economic Controversies by Murray N. Rothbard (Chapters 1-7)

Realism and Abstraction in Economics: Aristotle and Mises versus Friedman by Roderick T. Long

Is Research Based on Causal Scientific Principles Possible in the Social Sciences? by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Chapter 10 in The Economics and Ethics of Private Property)

Economic Science and the Austrian Method by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Epistemological Problems of Economics by Ludwig von Mises

The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science by Ludwig von Mises

The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics by David Gordon


Austrian Economics and Austrian Philosophy by Barry Smith

Aristotle, Menger, Mises: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Economics by Barry Smith

On the Austrianness of Austrian Economics by Barry Smith

The Question of Apriorism by Barry Smith

Aristotelianism, Apriorism, Essentialism by Barry Smith

In Defense of Extreme (Fallibilistic) Apriorism by Barry Smith


De-Kanting Mises and Hoppe: Notes Toward An Austrian-School Metaphysics by Steven Yates

Rothbard’s Account of the Axiom of Human Action: A Neo-Aristotelian-Thomistic Defense by Douglas B. Rasmussen


The Problem of Verification in Economics by Fritz Machlup

Was Mises right? by Peter T. Leeson Peter J. Boettke

The methodology of Austrian economics as a sophisticated, rather than naive, philosophy of economics by Peter J. Boettke

Implications of Machlup’s interpretation of Mises’s epistemology by Gabriel J. Zanotti and Nicolás Cachanosky

What is extreme about Mises’s extreme apriorism? by Scott Scheall

The vacuity of Ludwig von Mises's apriorism by Scott Scheall

Was Ludwig von Mises a Conventionalist? A New Analysis of the Epistemology of the Austrian School of Economics by Alexander Linsbichler

Review of Alexander Linsbichler’s Was Ludwig von Mises a Conventionalist? A New Analysis of the Epistemology of the Austrian School of Economics by Scott Scheall

Austrian economics without extreme apriorism: construing the fundamental axiom of praxeology as analytic by Alexander Linsbichler

Austrian economics without extreme apriorism: A critical reply by Jonas Lipski