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Why Study Philosophy?

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Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, social ontology, social reality, spontaneous order, The Road to Serfdom, the sensory order

The Emergence of the Mind: Hayek’s Account of Mental Phenomena as a Product of Spontaneous Physical and Social Orders

Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo’s intro from her excellent paper. Friedrich Hayek’s social theory is well known for his articulation of the paradigm of spontaneous orders that challenges the traditional distinction between what is natural and what is artificial. The problem that Hayek saw is that language and other social objects do not fall under either…

alvin goldman, Chiara Chelini, mirror neurons, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, simulation, social cognition, sociocognition, spontaneous order

Hayek’s Self-organizing Mental Order and Folk-Psychological Theories of the Mind

Here is the Introduction to Chiara Chelini’s paper, the full version available here. Humans are social creatures and they deeply rely on mentalizing, which aims at understanding other people behaviours and formulating expectations about their future actions. The existence of inner mental states has been postulated in order to give an explanatory account of the…

brain, cerebral cortex, connectionism, consciousness, El Orden Sensorial, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, qualia, the sensory order

Fuster’s “Prólogo” to Hayek’s El Orden Sensorial

Here is a translation I commissioned by José Villavicencio of Joaquin Fuster’s “Prólogo” to F. Hayek El Orden Sensorial. Unión Editorial, S.A., Madrid, pp 11-23, 2004. +++++++++++++++++++ Prologue Salzburg, May 17, 1976 Dear Professor Fuster, Thank you very much for your kind letter dated the 3rd of this month and that I have in my possession without…

causal theory, edward feser, hayek, mind body, neurophilosophy, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, Popper, Putnam, qualia, the sensory order

Hayek, Popper, and the Causal Theory of the Mind

Here is the introduction to Ed Feser’s paper from Hayek in Mind. In late 1952, F. A. Hayek sent his friend Karl Popper a copy of his recently published book The Sensory Order: An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology. In a letter dated December 2, 1952, Popper acknowledged receipt of the book and…

Autopoiesis, computer science, consciousness, embodied cognition, embodiment, enaction, enactivism, externalism, francesco varela, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science

Remembering Varela

Four articles (and more) of interest to theorists interested in enaction: 1. Tom Froese’s new article in Adaptive Behavior: Critics of the paradigm of enaction have long argued that enactive principles will be unable to account for the traditional domain of orthodox cognitive science, namely “higher-level” cognition and specifically human cognition. Moreover, even many of the…

brain science, Edelman, erol basar, feynman, hebb, heisenberg, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, the sensory order

Views of Hayek, Hebb, and Heisenberg: Toward an Approach to Brain Functioning

Neuroscientist Erol Basar on Hayek F. A. Hayek’s The Sensory Order must rate as one of the most creative books written on general philosophy of neuroscience. Although Hayek was a Noble-prize winner in economics and was not educated as a neuroscientist, his book opens up a new window on neuroscience, and this window certainly offers…