Hayek and the hermeneutics of mind

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ID3058415
AuthorsFrancesca Di Iorio (0000-0003-0260-7255, Gemass, Sorbonne University, Paris, corresponding author), Francesco Di Iorio
Year2015
Volume54
Issue2
Pages177-191
Publication date2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science Information (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0539018414566420
OpenAlexW2158828294
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited27

The article investigates the connections between Hayek's cognitive psychology and his methodological individualism. It argues that Hayek's theory of the sensory order, which is his less-studied scientific contribution, supports an original but largely unknown argument in favour of the Verstehen approach of methodological individualism. Hayek merges a theory of the temporality of knowledge as understood by phenomenological hermeneutics, and notably by Gadamer, with a proto-connectionist theory of mind to develop a perspective that anticipates by decades Varela's and Maturana's neuro-phenomenology. The article shows that Hayek uses this perspective to criticize the deterministic paradigms of action that consider action to be a mechanical effect of a pre-given reality and challenge the Verstehen approach, which is defended both by methodological individualism and phenomenological hermeneutics

Austrian School · Epistemology · Hermeneutics · Individualism · Methodological individualism · Reductionism · Scientism · Sociology · Temporality · Verstehen · Economic Theory and Institutions · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy, Science, and History

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