Apriorism and Positivism in the Social Sciences

Tags: Other Schools of Thought, Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory

07/31/2010 Roderick T. Long

Defending “methodological dualism” [the view that natural science and social science require different methods] from both its positivist critics and its confused historicist friends. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

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