Review on “The Counter-Revolution of Science. Studies on the Abuse of Reason” by Friedrich August von Hayek

Abstract

The Austrian-English economist and social thinker Hayek sets the problem of "scientism" criticism, i.e. an illegal shift of methods from natural science to humanities. To solve this problem Hayek analyses the history of natural sciences and their separation from studies that are corroborated by historical experience (like jurisprudence, history, classic literature).

Keywords

• Hayek
• scientism
• method
• science
• human studies