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Our author rightly devotes attention to Max Weber, whose views on methodology were of crucial importance for Mises and his successors, Hayek foremost among them; but I think his presentation of Weber at one point misses the mark. He notes that Weber maintains that the choice of facts a social scientist elects to study depends on the values he brings to the investigation. As Weber puts the matter, | Our author rightly devotes attention to Max Weber, whose views on methodology were of crucial importance for Mises and his successors, Hayek foremost among them; but I think his presentation of Weber at one point misses the mark. He notes that Weber maintains that the choice of facts a social scientist elects to study depends on the values he brings to the investigation. As Weber puts the matter, | ||
{{quote|Only a small portion of existing concrete reality is colored by our value-conditioned interest and it alone is important to us. . . . We cannot, however, discover what is meaningful to us by means of a 'presuppositionless' investigation of empirical data. Rather perception of its meaningfulness to us is the presupposition of its becoming an object of investigation." (p. 89, quoting Weber)}} | |||
From this passage Caldwell draws a radical conclusion: "Even 'pure observation' is always observation from a point of view; there is no such thing as 'facts in themselves'. In modern terminology, what we take to be the facts are themselves 'theory laden' in that they reflect our own prior interests" (p. 82). | From this passage Caldwell draws a radical conclusion: "Even 'pure observation' is always observation from a point of view; there is no such thing as 'facts in themselves'. In modern terminology, what we take to be the facts are themselves 'theory laden' in that they reflect our own prior interests" (p. 82). | ||