January 1958
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... Extending this point to Boettke's work in particular, I think Austrians would be well advised to recast his "committed scientist"/"intellectual historian" dichotomy to recognize that the committed scientist, as scientist, can never be committed only to a particular theory or school of thought. The scientist's ultimate commitment is to something larger, namely the extended order of learning (e.g., Conant's citadel of learning (Conant 1956), Oakeshott's conversation of humankind (Oakeshott 1959), Polanyi's society of explorers (Polanyi 1966), or Bloom's community of man (Bloom 1987)). Indeed, if one were to examine closely the intellectual evolution of each thinker Boettke cites as an exemplar of the committed scientist (Hayek, Buchanan, V. Smith, Posner, Becker), I suspect one would discover many instances where inter-paradigmatic arbitrage led to unexpected discoveries. ...
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January 1958
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