ABSTRACT
The emergence of economic methodology as a field within economics over the past two decades or so owes much to Warren Samuels. He has, as an editor, been responsible for the publication of an enormous range of work and he has contributed to debates himself. The basis for all this work has been an open and tolerant attitude towards the work of others, including those who do not share his own views. This toleration is not simply due to a generous character (though that is certainly true), but arises from methodological convictions that he has articulated under the label of methodological pluralism.1 Given the centrality of this to his work, it seems appropriate to explore it here.
