The Sensory Order by Hayek, F.A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Copyright Title Page Preface Contents Introduction I. The Nature of the Problem

II. An Outline of the Theory

1. The Principle of the Explanation 2. The Sensory Order in its Static and in its Dynamic Aspects 3. The Principle of Classification 4. Multiple Classification 5. The Central Thesis

III. The Nervous System as an Instrument of Classification

IV. Sensation and Behaviour

1. Sensations and the Organism 2. Evolution and the Hierarchal Order of the Nervous System 3. From Specific Reflex to Generalized Evaluation 4. Proprioception of Low-Level Responses 5. Postures and Movements Connected with Perception 6. Patterns of Motor Responses 7. Biogenic Needs and Drives 8. Emotions and the James-Lange Theory

V. The Structure of the Mental Order

1. Pre-Sensory Experience or ‘Linkages’ 2. The Gradual Formation of a ‘Map’ Reproducing Relations Between Events in the Environment 3. The ‘Map’ and the ‘Model’ 4. Associative Processes 5. Mechanical and Purposive Behaviour 6. The Model-Object Relationship

VI. Consciousness and Conceptual Thought

1. Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes 2. Criteria of Consciousness 3. The Common Space-Time Framework 4. Attention 5. The Functions of Consciousness 6. ‘Concrete’ and ‘Abstract’ 7. Conceptual Thought

VII. Confirmations and Verifications of the Theory

1. Observed Facts for which the Theory Accounts 2. Older Theories Comprised as Special Cases 3. New Experiments Suggested 4. Possibilities of Experimental Refutation

VIII. Philosophical Consequences

1. Pre-Sensory Experience and Pure Empiricism 2. Phenomenalism and the Inconstancy of Sensory Qualities 3. Dualism and Materialism 4. The Nature of Explanation 5. Explanation of the Principle 6. The Limits of Explanation 7. The Division of the Sciences and the ‘Freedom of the Will’

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