Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology

brain science, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, complexity, connectionism, consciousness, david palermo, Denny Proffitt, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, dualism, frank rosenblatt, gerald edelman, hayek, James wible, karl pribnam, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, qualia, social cognition, social connectionism, spontaneous orders, the sensory order, walter weimer, william butos

Having just delivered an edited volume entitled Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology to the publisher, this is an opportune time to make widely available, for the first time, some photographs so generously sent to me by Walt Weimer (contact made through the good offices of a few of his students, some featured in the photos below). But before that, the first shameless plug for the volume which amazingly includes a contribution from Weimer himself!

Hayek’s philosophical psychology as set out in his The Sensory Order (1952) has, for the most part, been neglected. Despite being lauded by computer scientist grandee Frank Rosenblatt and by Nobel prize-winning biologist Gerald Edelman, cognitive scientists — with a few exceptions — have yet to discover Hayek’s philosophical psychology. On the other hand, social theorists, Hayek’s traditional disciplinary constituency, have only recently begun to take note and examine the importance of psychology in the complete Hayek corpus.

This volume brings together for the first time state-of-the-art contributions from neuroscientists, philosophers of mind, economists, and social theorists to critically examine many aspects of Hayek’s philosophical psychology.

Weimer was the co-convenor along with the late David Palermo of The Second Penn State Conference on Cognition and the Symbolic Processes. Weimer was so instrumental in rehabilitating (or perhaps more accurately, resuscitating) Hayek’s philosophical psychology. Here are my two previous Weimer posts. The photographs below are annoted precisely as Walt did in the hardcopy he sent me. (I have held back a couple of photos of Hayek since there is a dearth of good shots and I would like to have first dibs at using them should the occasion arise.)

Hayek, Mike Mahoney, Karl Pribnam

Denny Proffitt

H. answering a question during the discussion –

since he was “deaf to the left” I moderated the session to make sure he heard the questions correctly.

Jim Wible

At the “social” in the cabin-in-the-woods.

Bill Butos and H.

Obviously my best side.