Dave Burns May 31, 2014 at 8:19 pm

Wilson’s epistemology seeks to overcome cognitive biases. He embraced agnosticism on all issues, and recommended that we use a pseudo-Bayesian approach to constantly test alternative hypotheses through direct experience. I think his attitude toward Rand or Mises would be at their certainty makes them more vulnerable to error.

B.K. Marcus May 31, 2014 at 9:10 pm

Dave, Wilson was definitely skeptical of both Rand and Mises. He mentioned their names in one breath in a set of 2001 audio interviews called
“Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything (Or Old Bob Exposes His Ignorance).”

The book that seems to go into the most depth on RAW’s epistemology is Quantum Psychology.

I was an avid follower of his until my reading of that book overlapped with my discovery of praxeology. I have great fondness for RAW and especially for Illuminatus!, but with Quantum Psychology, I put aside model agnosticism and became an Austrian.

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Dave Burns June 1, 2014 at 4:07 am

Austrian or Misesian?
Where do you stand on the synthetic a priori? Is praxeology a massive tautology? Hmmm, we should be discussing this under the Mises heading.

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