Hayek already wrote in The Sensory Order (1952) that “An apparatus of classification cannot explain anything more complex than itself” and that “The whole idea of the mind explaining itself is a logical contradiction’’. Hayek takes this incompleteness — the constitutional inability of mind to explain itself — to be a generalized case of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. See…
Newly published as open access in Frontiers in Psychology. At long last Hayek makes an appearance outside of Austrian and behavioral circles though myself and others been banging on about him as a situated theorist for yonks. See Bill Butos’ (ed.) The Social Science of Hayek’s The Sensory Order. economic reasoning is never just an…
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath’s latest bringing together luminaries as diverse as Hayek, Churchland, Sperber, Clark, Edelman, Tooby and Cosmides &c. Carsten Herrmann-PillathEmbodied cognitive scienceEvolutionary PsychologyExternalismFriedrich HayekneuroeconomicsPatricia Churchlandphilosophical psychologythe sensory order
The very excellent Josh Rust won the publisher’s prize for his chapter. computationalismConnectionismFriedrich HayekHayek in MindJerry FodorJohn Searlejoshua rustnaturalismphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindthe sensory orderzenon pylyshyn
Speaking of Fuster, here is his review of Vanberg’s reissued The Sensory Order that I commissioned in the latest issue of JMB. Cognitive neuroscienceFriedrich HayekJoaquin Fusterjournal of mind and behaviorphilosophical psychologythe sensory orderviktor vanberg
From Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology (Thank you Walter!) Occasionally I am asked how I came to the work of Friedrich Hayek and why I promoted it (to a mainly psychological audience) through conferences and writings in the 1970’s and 1980’s during the period when I was able to indulge my hobby of studying interesting…
Gábor István Bíró in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics. Economicsevolutionary economicsexpertiseFriedrich HayekkeynesMichael Polanyipolitical economyTacit knowledgethe sensory order
The very excellent Galen Strawson’s Isaiah Berlin Lecture from earlier this year. Highly unusual indeed to spot a footnote to Hayek’s TSO — so that’s rather good news. Also in anticipation of a review I’ve commissioned for Shaun Gallagher’s recently published Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind, Shaun has made available the book’s intro: see here. behaviourismconsciousnessenactivismFriedrich HayekGalen StrawsonPhilip…
The reissue of TSO edited by Viktor Vanberg (originally Chicago University Press) is about to, for some reason, also be published by Routledge. Here is an excerpt from Viktor’s excellent introduction: Among F. A. Hayek’s numerous publications, The Sensory Order (hereafter TSO) is undoubtedly the most unusual. After all, from someone known as an economist…
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,…
manwithoutqualities 