This article reinterprets Hayek’s cognitive psychology from the standpoint of the categories employed by phenomenological hermeneutics, and notably by Gadamer. Both Hayek and Gadamer agree on the idea that consciousness is the outcome of a process of interpretation that depends on a...

Front cover -- The Social Science of Hayek's 'The Sensory Order' -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1. The unexpected fertility of Hayek's cognitive theory: An introduction to The social science of Hayek's ''The sensory order'' -- Introduction -- Historical comments...

The cognitive sciences, having emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, are recently experiencing a spectacular renewal which cannot leave unaffected any discipline that deals with human behavior. The primary motivation for our project has been to weigh up the impact that this...