The Sensory Order
Subtitle: And Other Writings on the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology
Series: The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, vol 14
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780415035330
Other titles: The Sensory Order
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: I. The Nature of the Problem; title: 1. What is Mind?; title: 2. The Phenomenal and the Physical World; title: 3. Stimulus, Impulse, and the Theory of the Specific Energy of the Nerves; title: 4. Differences in Quality are Differences in the Effects; title: 5. The Unitary Character of the Sensory Order; title: 6. The Order of Sensory Qualities not Confined to Conscious Experience; title: 7. The Denial or Disregard of Our Problem by Behaviorism; title: 8. The 'Absolute' Qualities of Sensations a Phantom-Problem; title: II. An Outline of the Theory; title: 1. The Principle of the Explanation; title: 2. The Sensory Order in its Static and in its Dynamic Aspects; title: 3. The Principle of Classification; title: 4. Multiple Classification; title: 5. The Central Thesis; title: III. The Nervous System as an Instrument of Classification; title: 1. An Inventory of the Physiological Data; title: 2. Simplifying Assumptions on which the Operation of the Principle will be Discussed; title: 3. Elementary Forms of Classification; title: 4. Complex Forms of Classification; title: 5. The Classification of the Relation Between Classes; title: 6. The Universal Character of the Process of Classification: Gestalt Phenomena and Abstract Concepts; title: IV. Sensation and Behaviour; title: 1. Sensations and the Organism; title: 2. Evolution and the Hierarchal Order of the Nervous System; title: 3. From Specific Reflex to Generalized Evaluation; title: 4. Proprioception of Low-Level Responses; title: 5. Postures and Movements Connected with Perception; title: 6. Patterns of Motor Responses; title: 7. Biogenic Needs and Drives; title: 8. Emotions and the James-Lange Theory; title: V. The Structure of the Mental Order; title: 1. Pre-Sensory Experience or 'Linkages'; title: 2. The Gradual Formation of a 'Map' Reproducing Relations Between Events in the Environment; title: 3. The 'Map' and the 'Model'; title: 4. Associative Processes; title: 5. Mechanical and Purposive Behaviour; title: 6. The Model-Object Relationship; title: VI. Consciousness and Conceptual Thought; title: 1. Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes; title: 2. Criteria of Consciousness; title: 3. The Common Space-Time Framework; title: 4. Attention; title: 5. The Functions of Consciousness; title: 6. 'Concrete' and 'Abstract'; title: 7. Conceptual Thought; title: VII. Confirmations and Verification of the Theory; title: 1. Observed Facts for which the Theory Accounts; title: 2. Older Theories Comprised as Special Cases; title: 3. New Experiments Suggested; title: 4. Possibilities of Experimental Refutation; title: VIII. Philosophical Consequences; title: 1. Pre-Sensory Experience and Pure Empiricism; title: 2. Phenomenalism and the Inconstancy of Sensory Qualities; title: 3. Dualisms and Materialism; title: 4. The Nature of Explanation; title: 5. Explanation of the Principle; title: 6. The Limits of Explanation; title: 7. The Division of the Sciences and the 'Freedom of the Will'; title: Bibliography; title: Index