The Counter-Revolution of Science: Studies on the Abuse of Reason is a 1952 book by Nobel laureate economist Friedrich Hayek.

Hayek lifts the title of the book, The Counter-Revolution of Science, from a name given to the movement by Louis de Bonald, a French counter-revolutionary and contemporary of Saint-Simon.

In Hayek's view the task of the natural sciences is to replace the qualitative description of nature provided by the senses with a quantitative description which is arrived at through experiment: [W]hat men know or think about the external world or about themselves, their concepts and even the subjective qualities of their sense perceptions are to Science never ultimate reality, data to be accepted.

[3] Kosík claims that Hayek and those philosophers (including Karl Popper on The Poverty of Historicism[6] and Ferdinand Gonseth of Dialectica[7]) lack the understanding of the dialectical process of forming the totality.

[8] American philosopher Susan Haack references Hayek's book several times in her 2009 essay "Six Signs of Scientism".