La naissance de la querelle des méthodes en Angleterre: la controverse Harrison-Cairnes

Olivier Robert

Revue Économique, 1995, vol. 46, issue 3, 961-971

Abstract: [eng] The birth of the english methodenstreit : the Harrison-Cairnes controversy. In this paper, we intend to recall the impact of the Methodenstreit which shook Great-Britain during the last three decades of the nineteenth century. We suggest that this battle of method originated in the controversy between Harrison and Cairnes. First, we present Harrison's point of view and impute it to Comte's influence. Then, we analyze Cairnes's epistemological and methodological assesments. We show that he hardened the views developped in Mill's System of Logic [1843], thus reasserting the value of the methodological rules expounded in the Essay [1836]. [fre] Cet article a pour but de rappeler l'importance de la querelle des méthodes qui secoua l'Angleterre à la fin du XIXe siècle, querelle qui, selon nous, trouve son ori­gine dans la controverse opposant Harrison à Cairnes. Nous présentons d'abord le point de vue d'Harrison, en soulignant ce qu'il doit à Comte. Puis nous expo­sons les positions épistémologique et méthodologique de Calmes et nous mon­trons alors que ce dernier, radicalisant la position défendue par Mill dans le Système de logique, réaffirma finalement la valeur des préceptes posés dans l'Essai de 1836.

Date: 1995
Note: DOI:10.3406/reco.1995.409712
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