I have a chapter in this forthcoming book entitled “Pathologizing Ideology, Epistemic Modesty and Instrumental Rationality”. cognitive closurecomplexityEpistemologyideologyphilosophy of social sciencerationalismrationalitysituated cognitionsocial epistemology
The Herbert Simon Society has just announced a call for papers though this doesn’t seem to be reflected on their website yet. Behavioral economicsCognitive sciencecomplexityHerbert Simonheuristicsorganization theoryPhilosophy of mindphilosophy of social sciencerationality
I’m very pleased to have across this new book. Behavioral economicsCognitive scienceConnectionismneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindphilosophy of social sciencesituated cognition
A recent freely available article by sociologist Bo Isenberg entitled “A modern calamity – Robert Musil on stupidity” in Journal of Classical Sociology. This voluntary subordination might be dispassionate or fanatical and relates to not only collective ideologies, nationalism and totalitarianism but also excessive rationalism. To Musil, nationalism and totalitarianism are manifestations of the most treacherous forms…
Now available from Liberty Fund. Bargain! Hayek did publish all the works found in this volume, but they had never been gathered in a single work as he originally conceived. Editor Bruce Caldwell has provided translations where they were absent and has revised and corrected the text, and his introduction tells “the story of Hayek’s…
CULTURE AS A SUBJECT OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD What happens when the functional method of the sciences is applied to cultural phenomena? Does culture lend itself to such an understanding? If there are difficulties in the cultural sciences, are the difficulties due to the complexity of the material, as is often alleged, or are the…
Liberty Press paperback release of 2010 Chicago hardcover edition. As with all Liberty Press books — a bargain! bruce caldwellFriedrich Hayekphilosophy of social sciencerationalismReasonScientism
