“Socializing” the Mind and “Cognitivizing” Sociality

Marsh, Leslie

doi:10.1108/s1529-2134(2011)0000015004

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“…His Sensory Order is now recognized as a pioneering proto-connectionist work. Connectionism is a psychological approach in which neural networks rather than a hierarchical theory of the mind is presupposed (Marsh, 2011). He therefore did not want to treat the individual mind as the capstone of the hierarchy of complex structures.…”

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“…The alternative to the cognitivist paradigm is a situated stance (Marsh, 2011: xvi). According to this perspective, the variety and complexity of human behaviour does not stem from radically heterogenous subjective visions or the intricacies of individual minds.…”

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“…The proponents of 4E cognition reject the inner-outer division of the mind and the world and emphasize: (1) the importance of the physical body for acting and interacting in the environment (Embodied); (2) the importance of learned cultural practices for the emergent coordination between many interacting individuals (Embedded); (3) the reliance on skilled interaction with external artefacts for relieving the individual cognitive load (Extended); and (4) the importance of active engagement in and with the environment (Enacted) 6 . Leslie Marsh recognized early on that this new theoretical perspective in the philosophy of mind had great potential for reinforcing the epistemic institutionalism in Austrian economics (Malt, 2018; Marsh, 2011).…”

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Hayek's extended mind: on the (im)possibility of Austrian behavioural economics

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2024

Journal of Institutional Economics

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Recent work has argued for a Hayekian behavioural economics, which combines Austrian economics with behavioural economics as developed by Kahneman, Thaler, Sunstein, and others. We suggest that this hybrid is misguided because it relies on individual cognitivism. This view of cognition is incompatible with the Hayekian view of cognition which treats rationality as an emergent phenomenon of social interaction in an institutional environment. This Hayekian view, which we call epistemic institutionalism, is compatible with an alternative prominent perspective in psychology, that of the extended mind, sometimes known as 4E cognition. We demonstrate how the Hayekian perspective on individualism, the price system, and the evolution of rules can be connected to the extended mind programme, through concepts such as the coupling of the individual and their environment, cognitive off-loading, and affordances. We suggest that this alternative combination of Austrian economics and psychology provides a more fruitful way forward, especially because it foregrounds the processes of learning, error-correction, and institutional orders, rather than choice, bias, and individual rationality. To explain why Austrian economists have been receptive to behavioural economics, we distinguish epistemic institutionalism from the (radical) subjectivist approach, which shares key assumptions of individual cognitivism.

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