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 on The Sensory Order -- An overview of Hayek's cognitive theory -- Generalizing Hayek's cognitive theory -- Overview of this volume -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part I: Hayek's Cognitive Psychology, Evolution, and Social Theory -- Chapter 2. Science and The Sensory Order -- Introduction -- What is sciencequest -- Science in The Sensory Order -- Science in postpositivist philosophy and sociology -- Science as an adaptive system -- Postpositivism in the light of adaptive systems theory -- The dead end of radical reflexivity -- Knowledge, individual, and social -- Conclusion -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3. Reflecting upon knowledge: Hayek's psychology and social science -- Introduction -- Man and society -- Psychology: alternative paradigms -- Psychology: mental and physical events -- Scientific method: from sensory order to physical order -- Scientific method: theory and fact -- Scientific method: objectivity and subjectivity -- Scientific method: social phenomena -- Scientific method: 'horses for courses' -- Social order: evolutionary adaptation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4. The sensory order: operational epistemology as an evolutionary adaptation -- Introduction -- The Hayekian synthesis in cognitive psychology -- Brain evolution as a spontaneous order -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5. Hayek: Cognitive scientist Avant la Lettre -- Prologue -- Hayek's Proto-connectionism -- Cognitive closure -- Hayek's social connectionism -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Part II: Hayek's cognitive psychology and economics -- Chapter 6. Hayek and the evolutionary tradition against the Homo oeconomicus -- The sensory order is the product of an unconscious process -- Against associationist psychology -- The Scottish tradition -- Menger and Hayek: The rebirth of methodological individualism -- The primacy of theory in the construction of science -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7. The Sensory Order and the neurophysiological basics of methodological individualism -- Introduction -- Categorization and interpretation -- The self-organization of the mind -- The impossibility of a full explanation of cognitive processes -- From the indeterminism of cognitive process to the necessity of Verstehen -- Sensory order and praxeological approach -- The nomological-deductive explanation of action -- The neurophysiologic foundation of the subjective theory of value -- The analogy between the self-organization of the mind and that of the market -- Sensory order and social change -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 8. The Sensory Order, The economic imagination and the tacit dimension -- Introduction -- A pluralistic perspective on choice -- Connections, characteristics and constructs -- Cognition and instinctive behavior -- Consciousness versus the tacit dimension -- The fallible decision maker -- Brands and criteria-based decision rules -- Concluding comments -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 9. Hayek on Prices and Knowledge: Supplementing ''The Use of Knowledge in Society'' with The Sensory Order -- Introduction -- The knowledge papers -- From the sensory order to an epistemological theory -- Informational role of prices -- Hayek interpretations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part III: Hayek's Cognitive Psychology, Institutions, and Broader Social Theory.

Chapter 10. The sensory order and organizational learning -- The implicit learning theory of The Sensory Order -- The firm as a collection of routines reflecting organizational learning -- The analogies of minds and firms -- Environmental effects on organizational learning -- Suggestions for further research and conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 11. Instincts and institutions: the rise of the market -- Introduction -- The framework -- Social cooperation: its basis in evolved psychology -- How did market-supporting institutions emergequest -- The conflict between instincts and institutions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 12. An institutional solution for a cognitive problem: Hayek's sensory order as foundation for Hayek's institutional order -- Introduction -- Hayek's sensory order -- The cognitive foundations of Hayek's social order -- Beyond the text: Post-Hayekian applications -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 13. The role of dispositions in Hayek's cognitive theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hayek's cognitive theory in a nutshell -- 3. The core element of cognitive processes: the dispositions -- 4. Social evolution as evolution of dispositions -- 5. The role of government in the process of social evolution -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part IV: The Place of the Sensory Order in Hayek's Oeuvre: A Mini Symposium -- Chapter 14. Making Sense out of The Sensory Order -- Introduction: The new neuro-Hayekians -- Is The Sensory Order the key to understanding Hayekquest -- An alternative hypothesis -- Does The Sensory Order have a useful economic futurequest -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 15. I am not a ''Neuro-Hayekian,'' I'm a subjectivist -- Neuro-Hayekianquest Not me -- From Mind to Market -- Minds or Institutionsquest.

References -- Chapter 16. Confessions of a neuro-Hayekian -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 17. From Neuro-Hayekians to subjectivist Hayekians: A reply to Horwitz and Koppl -- References.