Hayek’s theory of knowledge cannot be traced directly to Hume

Evidence

Even historians sympathetic to neoliberalism have concluded that Hayek’s approach to knowledge preclude a direct genealogy rooted in Hume (Kukathas, Hayek and Modern Liberalism; Petsoulas, Hayek’s Liberalism and Its Origins). That Smith would never have accepted neoliberal politics is a hallowed theme in the history of economic thought. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1813

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the book’s larger claim that neoliberalism is a constructed, novel doctrine rather than a restoration of classical liberalism — the ‘thought collective’ severed its own intellectual genealogies. — connects to: A thinker’s sources cannot explain the originality of their thought — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1378; Kant differed from Hume by holding African mental limits to be environmental

Broader Connections

• A thinker’s sources cannot explain the originality of their thought #corroborates (0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1378
• Kant differed from Hume by holding African mental limits to be environmental #responds-to (0.75)