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A Neo-Kantian Critique of Von Mises's Epistemology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2008

Pierluigi Barrotta
Pierluigi Barrotta
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University of Pisa, Italy
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More than many other Austrians, Mises tried to found aprioristic methodology on a well defined and developed epistemology. Although references to Kant are scattered rather unsystematically throughout his works, he nevertheless used an unequivocal Kantian terminology. He explicitly defended the existence of ‘a priori knowledge’, ‘synthetic a priori propositions’, ‘the category of action’, and so forth.

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Economics & Philosophy , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , April 1996 , pp. 51 - 66
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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