The Sensory Order. An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952 [first UK edition; first published in the US in the same year].
Octavo, xxii, 209 pages.
Cloth; a fine copy with the unclipped dustwrapper slightly chipped and bumped, with its spine also sunned and a little marked.
Friedrich August Hayek (1899-1992) 'made fundamental contributions in political theory, psychology, and economics', the latter for which he shared the 1974 Nobel Prize with Gunnar Myrdal. When this book was published, he was 'Professor of Social and Moral Science in the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago'. In it, he 'interprets the nervous system as an apparatus of classification which distinguishes between classes of stimuli on the basis of their joint occurrence in the past. The order of the sensory qualitites [sic] in terms of which we acquire all our conscious experience thus appears as the result of a kind of pre-sensory experience. This principle of explanation is then applied to other mental phenomena such as emotions and conceptual thought' (publisher's blurb).
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