The most excellent Kristóf Nyíri has alerted me to his freely available self-published book Pictorial Truth: Essays on Wittgenstein, Realism, and Conservatism. Kristóf and I have corresponded intermittently over about thirty years, my coming to him first through his absolutely fascinating early-to-late eighties work on Wittgenstein when, pre-web, I wrote to him expressing my enthusiasms. He has,…
It will be interesting to see if this project actually gets off the ground. To my mind it should be either a fully-fledged theatrical story or a standard documentary — I find documentaries with interspersed reconstructed scenes tiresome and unconvincing. Austrian EconomicsCarl MengerEconomicsFriedrich HayekLiberalismLibertarianismLudwig von Mises
The power team of Pete Boettke, Steve Horwitz, Adam Martin, and Roger Koppl comprise a symposium in Liberty Matters. adam martindistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeFriedrich HayekLiberalismPeter Boettkeroger kopplsocial epistemologysteve horwitz
The very excellent Paul Lewis has alerted me to a new paper of his available in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Volume 41, Issue 5, 1 August 2017, pp. 1343–1365. Friedrich HayekHistory of Economic ThoughtPaul Lewisphilosophy of social sciencereductionismsocial ontologytony Lawson
The forthcoming issue of Cosmos + Taxis. cosmos & taxisFriedrich HayekJazzmusicspontaneous orders
Three sections: Neuroscience — Philosophy of Mind — Mind and Sociality Austrian SchoolCognitive scienceFriedrich HayekHayek in Mindneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
I have never met Barry Smith in person but over the years he has been incredibly helpful and supportive of my various philosophical enterprises. Having only been familiar with Hayek’s social philosophy, it was Barry who first brought me to Hayek’s philosophical psychology and for that alone I’m especially grateful. Unlike so many in your…
The University of Chicago Press has alerted me that TSO is almost as good as here — so order now through the usual channels so as to not waste anytime in getting your hands on a copy. Cognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceFriedrich Hayekphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindSensory Orderviktor vanberg
I guess Hayek, the granddaddy of modern extended- and distributed- knowledge and cognition theorizing, is persona non grata — at least here. active externalismdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeFriedrich Hayeksocial epistemology
From Advances in Austrian Economics PROLOGUE It is probably no more justified to claim that thinking man has created his culture than that culture created his reason (Hayek, 1952/1979, p. 155). For Hayek, intelligence is manifest through a reciprocal coalition with the artifactual (social and physical), a causal integration that can take ontogenetic, phylogenetic, individual,…
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