And I am honored to be participating in the William F. Buckley, Jr., Program’s conference today on Friedrich Hayek and the future of classical liberalism. 1 Over the course of this afternoon, you will hear a series of presentations that put Hayek’s thinking in the context of contemporary developments and that offer a variety of perspectives on his intellectual legacy.
Hayek was a prolific—some might even say profligate—thinker. He was at various times, and in various modes, an early neuropsychologist, an epistemologist, a theoretical economist, a political philosopher, a moral philosopher, a philosopher of science, a historian of ideas, a public intellectual, and a social polemicist.