In this article I would like to expound what I take to be the ‘philosophy of history’ present in the work of the late Friedrich August von Hayek. This is, of course, a considerable task for a paper of this size and I would therefore like to limit the discussion to an analysis of Professor Hayek’s highly celebrated two-part essay “Scientism and the Study of Society” (latter reproduced in The Counter-Revolution of Science: Studies on the Abuse of Reason). The singling out of this work in particular is not an arbitrary decision. Rather I believe this to be a work which quite readily lends its voice, so to speak, to a conversation which is decidedly philosophical in nature. That is to say that I take Professor Hayek to be making certain philosophical claims in this work which, once clarified, provide important answers to certain puzzles which have occupied scholars of the philosophy of history. It is in the clarification of Hayek’s claims that I find the primary task of this paper. However, before we attempt this it is necessary to review, in general terms, what constitutes a ‘philosophy of history’. Specifically, we should aim to determine the problems or questions associated with this branch of philosophy.