Cognitive Autonomy and Methodological Individualism: The Interpretative Foundations of Social Life [Hardcover]

Di Iorio offers a new approach to Hayeks 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 Hayeks thought.

Barry Smith

University at Buffalo, editor of The Monist

This impressive and well-researched book breaks new ground in our understanding of F.A. Hayek and of methodological individualism more generally. It shows that methodological individualism sanctions neither an atomistic view of society nor a mechanical determinism. The book carefully analyzes an important tradition in the social sciences, and compares it to many important philosophical, sociological and economic systems of thought. This is an enlightening book for all scholars interested in the methodological problems of the social sciences.

Mario J. Rizzo

New York University

One of Hayeks most important contributions is his linking of complex methodological individualism, which deals with the emergence of spontaneous orders and unintended collective structures in complex self-organizing social systems, with a cognitive psychology. What makes Francesco Di Iorios book of great interest is that, by building on Hayeks seminal book The Sensory Order, it deepens the connections between cognition and rules of just conduct, taking into account relevant theories on subjectivity and consciousness such as phenomenology, hermeneutics and enactivism.

Jean Petitot

?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales, EHESS, Paris

In this thoughtful and enlightening book Francesco Di Iorio uses Hayeks cognitive pslãƒ