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The Sensory Order The Sensory Order
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The Physical Order and the Sensory Order The Physical Order and the Sensory Order
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The Nervous System as a Classification System The Nervous System as a Classification System
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The Origin and General Character of the Sensory Order The Origin and General Character of the Sensory Order
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The Significance of The Sensory Order The Significance of The Sensory Order
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The Critique of Behaviorism The Critique of Behaviorism
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Philosophical Consequences Philosophical Consequences
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Implications for the Social Sciences Implications for the Social Sciences
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What about Evolution? What about Evolution?
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Methodological Individualism Again Methodological Individualism Again
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Variants of Methodological Individualism Variants of Methodological Individualism
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A Final Reading A Final Reading
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12 Individualism and the Sensory Order
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Published:November 2003
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Abstract
Between 1945 and 1960, Hayek worked on two major projects. In the first, he developed in much greater detail the underpinnings in physiological psychology of the scattered remarks found in “Scientism and the Study of Society” about the human mind, classification, and interpretation. The second provided a description of and rationale for a classical liberal order. It is hard to imagine that the two resulting books, The Sensory Order and The Constitution of Liberty were written by the same person. The first is a technical scientific text whose didactic prose is, for those uninitiated in the jargon of psychology, at times impenetrable. The latter is, by contrast, systematic and flowing, filled with notes referencing the writings of the great and the obscure, a work at once sophisticated yet fully accessible to the layman. Both volumes contained themes that were critical in Hayek's later work. They led him to the “twin ideas of evolution and spontaneous order”and to the perception that examples of orders could be found in a wide variety of physical and social phenomena. This chapter begins the task of piecing together how Hayek came to incorporate these ideas into his existing work. It starts with The Sensory Order, a book that, although it was based on an old paper, appears to have gotten Hayek thinking along new lines. Then it looks at a lecture that could be considered a prelude to The Constitution of Liberty, one initially intended as the first section of the Abuse of Reason project, “Individualism: True and False”. An examination of that paper helps with the examination of just what sort of methodological individualist Hayek really was.
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