Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2022
I wish, for the sake of the vivacity of any discussion which might ensue, that I could find myself more in disagreement with Dr. Brodbeck than I do. As a matter of fact, however, I find myself in substantial agreement with her on practically all of the points upon which she takes issue with Hayek. There are, to be sure a few questions of relatively minor import that I should like to ask Dr. Brodbeck, but in the main I have confined my own discussion to an elaboration and supplementation of some of the points considered in her paper, and some related considerations raised in Hayek's book but which Dr. Brodbeck did not have the time, perhaps, to treat.
This essay was read as part of a symposium on Philosophy and Social Science at the Spring, 1953 meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Western Division, at St. Louis. Dr. Brodbeck's was the lead paper of the symposium. This essay was written during the time the author was employed in a research project supported by a contract between the Office of Naval Research and Tufts College.