Some degree of simplification is always necessary in science. Rather, the Hayekian social scientist should resist the temptation to oversimplify , where this means inferring from the available knowledge more than it in fact supports.
If anything, the Hayekian should emphasize the complexity of the phenomena and understate the significance of his results accordingly. The Hayekian social scientist should not claim that his explanation does more than account for the principle that determines the otherwise diverse manifestations of the relevant phenomena. According to Hayek, both mental and social phenomena are kinds of complex phenomena—their full explanation requires a model encompassing many variables, etc.
Leaving readers to decide for themselves, Hayek [] presented the correspondence between Mill and Taylor with little editorial comment on this method, see Peart, , xxix and xxxvi. To some readers this volume will therefore appear as the material for a book rather than the finished product. The justification for presenting the documents in this fashion [i.
Not all the fragments which accident has preserved can be made to fit into one coherent story which at the same time they are sufficient to justify. Yet any selection guided by an interpretation would have been likely to omit documents which from a different point of view might prove significant. On one level, there is the complex phenomena of the Mill-Taylor relationship that Hayek sought to explain.
The present book is the outcome of work originally undertaken without any such design. There is an unfortunate tendency in certain parts of this literature to leap beyond the available knowledge, from an acknowledged fact about Hayek to some more general conclusion regarding his career that is not supported by the premises adduced in favor of the aforesaid fact.
What I reject is the notion, implicit in many arguments in the secondary literature, but never explicated and defended, that some proper subset of these various transformations explains some broader scope, perhaps even the entire scope, of his career.
This career is fully explained by accounting for the entire spectrum of events, their intricate interrelations, and their relations with the wider environment, that constitute his career; it cannot be fully explained by an account of any particular proper subset of these events.
Hayek, F. Economics and Knowledge. In Bruce Caldwell ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, The Use of Knowledge in Society. In Sandra Peart ed. In Viktor Vanberg ed. Degrees of Explanation. The Theory of Complex Phenomena. Hutchison, Terence W. Mill, John Stuart. A System of Logic. Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific. The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill. Rockville, MD: Arc Manor. Peart, Sandra. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, xix Scheall, Scott.
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