Original offprint. 8vo. [209]-225, [1, blank] pp. Original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued (fore margin thumbed throughout; wrappers unevenly toned and slightly worn with a few short closed tears to extremities, small area of loss to upper left corner of front cover, still a good copy). Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. VI, No. 23, 1953.
An important article in the development of Hayek’s thinking on the philosophy of science in which he introduced a distinction between fields of science that study relatively ‘simple’ and those that study ‘complex’ phenomena. The article was later reprinted as part of Hayek’s 1967 collection Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
