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Hayek’s Theory of the Sensory Order: from Enaction to Methodological Individualism| old_uid | 7531 |
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| title | Hayek’s Theory of the Sensory Order: from Enaction to Methodological Individualism |
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| start_date | 2009/11/03 |
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| schedule | 14h-16h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle 28-132 |
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| summary | Hayek’s book “The Sensory Order” anticipated the idea of enaction as intended by Maturana and Varela. One of this book’s very interesting aspects lays in the fact that the Austrian scholar analyses the sociological implications of the concept of enaction. Hayek stresses that if the world is enacted and the mind is a complex system which is based on a principle of autonomy, the possibility to use the so called holist approach in sociology has to be ruled out. Methodological holism conceives of human action in mechanic and deterministic terms and is a product of scientism and objectivism. According to Hayek, the theory of enaction legitimates an interpretative approach in social sciences, i.e. the tradition of methodological individualism as intended by authors like Weber, Simmel and Schütz. Those authors criticize methodological holism by assuming the indeterminism of human action and the idea that the cause of action has to be sought in the meaning the latter carries out for the individual. Hayek’s point of view can give a contribution to the debate on the embodied and extended mind. It can help us to understand the role social factors play in cognition. |
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| responsibles | Legrand |
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