Cognitive Autonomy and Methodological Individualism The Interpretative Foundations of Social Life /

• Main Author: Di Iorio, Francesco (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 22
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Political theory.; Epistemology.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Phenomenology.; Social sciences.; Cognitive psychology.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Political Theory.; Cognitive Psychology.

“Di Iorio offers a new approach to Hayek’s Sensory Order, linking neuroscience to the old Verstehen tradition and to contemporary theories of self-organizing systems; this should be on the reading list of everyone who is interested in Hayek’s thought.” Barry Smith University at Buffalo, editor of Th...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Interpretative Nature of Knowledge: Hermeneutics and Sensory Order
• From Cognitive Autonomy to the Criticism of Socio-Cultural Determinism
• Human Autonomy and Social Systems
• Rationality and Collective Beliefs
• Nomological Explanation and Empirical Control in the Social Sciences.                   .