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- “scientism”
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From the author: The purpose of this paper is to consider social science and the problem of value within the over-all framework of "scientism and the study of man." By "scientism" I mean here a boundary transgression or a misuse of otherwise legitimate procedures and attitudes of science.To put the problem into clearer perspective, it may be well to consider briefly what is meant here by science...
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Online Publish Date: December 6, 2012
Hayek defined "scientism" or the "scientistic prejudice" as"slavish imitation of the method and language of Science" when applied to the social sciences, history, management, etc. Scientism represents "a mechanical and uncritical application of habits of thought to fields different from those in which they have been formed, and as such is "not an unprejudiced but a very prejudiced approach which...
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Online Publish Date: August 19, 2013
Further to my previous post on scientism: Steven Pinker has entered the fray, with a full-throated defense of the "scientific method," to be applied anywhere and everywhere. Skirting decades worth of thorny controversies about the philosophy, history, and sociology of science (going back at least to Hayek in the 1940s), he simply asserts that scientific practice — defined as "open debate, peer...
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Online Publish Date: April 24, 2017
Neil deGrasse Tyson has released a new video aimed at a what he sees as a growing anti-intellectualism problem in the United States. It was released at the same time as the March for Science and many Earth Day demonstrations. He reflects on what he thinks made America great and what’s stalling progress today. Science used to be respected, but today, there is a growing crowd of science-deniers who...
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Category: Theory and History, Mises Media, Audio Books, Ludwig von Mises Audiobooks
Online Publish Date: August 25, 2010
From Theory and History Part Three, "Epistemological Problems of History". Narrated by John Pruden.
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Category: Audio Mises Wire, Mises Media, Audio Articles, Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: January 2, 2023
Modern progressive governance claims it has science on its side. Hayek's Nobel speech put holes in that viewpoint.
Original Article: "Hayek on the Difference between Science and Scientism"
This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.
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Online Publish Date: December 20, 2022
[T]he confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists of a ready-made technique, or in imitating the form rather than the substance of scientific procedure, as if one needed only to follow some cooking recipes to solve all social problems.
— Hayek, F. A., The Pretence of Knowledge, Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel,...
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Online Publish Date: April 11, 2014
Here's an even-handed and brief summary and analysis of the recent debate over who has the superior interpretation of Mises: Rothbard or Machlup. For background:Joseph Salerno: Mises, Rothbard, and MachlupDavid Gordon: Mises and the Diminished A Priori
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: June 9, 2005
In this essay I want to draw attention to a period in the history of science that, I believe, will be of interest to supporters of Austrian economics. The episode in question is almost unknown to those only familiar with the accounts of scientific history found in works intended for the general public or in science textbooks, because it doesn't fit into the storyline such narratives almost...
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Category: Articles of Interest, Journals, Other Journals
"On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers."Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was just one man with a typewriter, but he inspired a world-wide renewal in the scholarship of liberty. During 45 years of research and writing, in 25 books and...
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Category: The Human Action Podcast, Mises Media, Interviews
Online Publish Date: April 28, 2017
Mises Institute Fellow Jonathan Newman, author of the article "Neil Ty, the Scientism Guy", joins Jeff to discuss the recent March for Science—and how politicized pseudoscience peddled by the likes of Bill Nye silences debate and drives dubious public policy.
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Category: Theory and History
Online Publish Date: June 22, 2010
Mises moves beyond economics to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. He discusses his methodological dualism: one approach for hard sciences and another for the social sciences. Rothbard writes "It is Mises's great methodological work, explaining the basis of his approach to economics, and providing scintillating critiques of such fallacious alternatives as...
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Category: Audio Mises Wire, Mises Media, Audio Articles, Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: January 3, 2023
While some politicians preach populism, that usually means protectionism and increased business regulation, along with high marginal income tax rates. Grover Cleveland showed a better way.
Original Article: "Grover Cleveland Presented the Best Example of a True Liberal Populist"
This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.
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Category: Articles of Interest, Journals, Other Journals
Scientism and Values, Helmut Schoeck and James W. Wiggins, eds. (Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand), 1960; The Logic of Action One: Method, Money, and the Austrian School (Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 1997), pp. 3-23.
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Online Publish Date: November 13, 2007
Can we capture the error of “scientism” in a single reminder? Let’s give it a try. Here’s the reminder: the error of “scientism” arises when a scientist practices “explanation” by the elimination or the forgetting of non-eliminable components of the problem which gave rise to the theoretical constructions of his discipline. Famous examples are: (1) in biology when population biologists mistake...
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Online Publish Date: October 16, 2007
Around the world there are many academics who make a living from Austrian economics. They write books, publish articles, organize conferences and are the people at the forefront of the movement. By constantly critiquing themselves and others, they build upon the Misesian framework, enriching, developing and deepening our understanding of praxeology. This group of people could be referred to as...
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Online Publish Date: July 11, 2014
Several days ago I highlighted John H. Cochrane’s critique of modern macroeconomics.In today’s Wall Street Journal Austrian Economist Mario J. Rizzo provides an excellent comment on Cochrane’s defense of modern modeling techniques.“Mr. Cochrane's excessive scientism is on display when he pooh-poohs Paul Krugman's critique regarding the "haze of equations" that has become standard in this field....
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Category: Theory and History, Mises Media, Audio Books, Ludwig von Mises Audiobooks
Online Publish Date: December 31, 2014
Mises moves beyond economics to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. He discusses his methodological dualism: one approach for hard sciences and another for the social sciences.
Rothbard writes,
It is Mises's great methodological work, explaining the basis of his approach to economics, and providing scintillating critiques of such fallacious alternatives as...
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Category: The Human Action Podcast, Mises Media, Interviews
Online Publish Date: May 26, 2017
More than 20 years after his death, Murray Rothbard continues to publish new books! Our guest Patrick Newman is the editor of a Rothbard manuscript dating to the 1970s entitled Roots of the Modern State, which the Mises Institute will release as a book later this year.Rothbard's topic is the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he doesn't disappoint. Murray exposes the...
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Online Publish Date: December 27, 2022
Yuval Noah Harari, professor of history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is not only a best-selling author but also a top advisor to Klaus Schwab, founder and front man of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
In 2018, Harari wrote: “Unfortunately, ‘free will’ isn’t a scientific reality. It is a myth inherited from Christian theology.”
And, in a 2019 interview, Harari said:
Humans today are a...