Đang chuẩn bị nút TẢI XUỐNG, xin hãy chờ
Tải xuống
COGNITIVE THEORY AS THE GROUND OF POLITICAL THEORY IN PLATO, POPPER, DEWEY, AND HAYEK$. John Dewey and Friedrich Hayek, despite their differences in field, nationality, generation, and politics | COGNITIVE THEORY AS THE GROUND OF POLITICAL THEORY IN PLATO POPPER DEWEY AND HAYEK Richard A. Posner John Dewey and Friedrich Hayek despite their differences in field nationality generation and politics have a number of things in common1 and among these is the derivation of a comprehensive social political and economic theory from a theory about the structure or operation of the human brain what I am calling cognitive theory. In the case of Dewey a philosopher one would be inclined to substitute epistemology for cognitive theory 2 and in the case of Hayek who dabbled in biology one might substitute cognitive science. But the similarity is considerable and so the choice of a single term for both is warranted. My particular focus is on Hayek s cognitive theory with Dewey used mainly as a stalking horse. I begin by situating the Deweyan and Hayekian projects in the broader philosophical tradition of deriving political from cognitive theory. I end with a brief discussion of the bearing of Hayek s cognitive theory on several current issues in social science. This is the expanded text of a talk given at the Third Annual Symposium on the Foundations of the Behavioral Sciences - entitled Hayek Dewey and Embodied Cognition Experience Beliefs and Rules - sponsored by the Behavioral Research Council of the American Institute of Economic Research and held on July 18-20 2003. Cognition and Economics Advances in Austrian Economics Volume 9 253-273 Copyright 2007 by Elsevier Ltd. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved ISSN 1529-2134 doi 10.1016 S1529-2134 06 09010-7 253 254 RICHARD A. POSNER 1. PLATO AND POPPER This project of derivation that I have just described may seem strange but is not. In this as in many respects Plato set the fashion for the millennia to come. The ideal state sketched in the Republic is not only an analogy to the soul though it is that too it is an implication of Plato s conception of human mental capacity a conception that is ontological as well
