“Di Iorio deals a brand new method of Hayek’s Sensory Order, linking neuroscience to the previous Verstehen tradition and to modern theories of self-organizing platforms; this could be at the examining checklist of everybody who's drawn to Hayek’s thought.”

Barry Smith

University at Buffalo, editor of The Monist

“This amazing and well-researched e-book breaks new floor in our figuring out of F.A. Hayek and of methodological individualism extra mostly. It indicates that methodological individualism sanctions neither an atomistic view of society nor a mechanical determinism. The publication conscientiously analyzes an immense culture within the social sciences, and compares it to many vital philosophical, sociological and financial structures of notion. this is often an enlightening ebook for all students attracted to the methodological difficulties of the social sciences.”

Mario J. Rizzo

New York University

“One of Hayek’s most crucial contributions is his linking of complicated methodological individualism, which offers with the emergence of spontaneous orders and unintentional collective constructions in advanced self-organizing social structures, with a cognitive psychology. What makes Francesco Di Iorio’s publication of serious curiosity is that, via development on Hayek’s seminal booklet The Sensory Order, it deepens the connections among cognition and principles of simply behavior, bearing in mind appropriate theories on subjectivity and recognition equivalent to phenomenology, hermeneutics and enactivism.”

Jean Petitot

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, EHESS, Paris

“In this considerate and enlightening booklet Francesco Di Iorio makes use of Hayek’s cognitive psychology because the place to begin for research of the connection among the autonomy of the agent and socio-cultural impacts inside of methodological individualism. The publication presents an illuminating and leading edge research of a imperative factor within the philosophy of social technological know-how through surroundings Hayek’s view on brain and motion in fruitful relation to techniques comparable to Gadamer’s hermeneutics, Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, Varela’s and Maturana’s enaction, Boudon’s interpretative sociology, Popper’s fallibilism and Mises’ praxeology. the most fascinating features of this e-book is its argument that hermeneutics and fallibilism refer to not assorted equipment yet to a similar one.”

Dario Antiseri

Emeritus Professor at LUISS collage, Rome

“Francesco Di Iorio’s publication explores, in an unique approach, the connections among Hayek’s methodological individualism and his interesting concept that human brain is either an interpretative machine and a self-organizing procedure. it's a incredible, essentially written paintings, characterised via a undeniable highbrow braveness, which makes a amazing contribution to the sociology of knowledge.”

Gérald Bronner

Paris Diderot University