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Popperian Hayek or Hayekian Popper?

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  • João Pinheiro da Silva

    (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP), Portugal)

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Friedrich Hayek was a fervent advocate of the methodological specificity of the social sciences. However, given his contact with Karl Popper, several historians and philosophers have characterised his final position as Popperian, that is, a position that would have accepted the unity of the scientific method. A closer look at Hayek's philosophy and Popper's own intellectual course shows that such a thesis is based on some misconceptions that can be overcome by taking the Hayekian concept of 'spontaneous order' as the foundation of a methodology immune to any kind of methodological monism, and focusing on Popper's late works that reveal a loosening of his defense of methodological unity.

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  • João Pinheiro da Silva, 2021. "Popperian Hayek or Hayekian Popper?," Economic Thought, World Economics Association, vol. 10(1), pages 46-60, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:wea:econth:v:10:y:2021:i:1:p:46
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