Naturalizing Religion
February 19, 2008I notice that Oxford’s Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion and the Centre for Anthropology and Mind have received a big grant for the “study of the cognitive science of religion” from the Templeton Foundation. Who’d have thought that the project of naturalizing religion would become so sexy – for reasons I won’t go into, this couldn’t have happened just 10 years ago when I was at Oxford. Writers engaged in this project that I have written on or, will soon be writing on, include Dennett, Rue and Flanagan.
The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence
February 2, 2008
Oakeshott’s great essay “The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence” is now available in book form. For several years prior to the opening up of the LSE Oakeshott archives, this essay was being passed around in photocopy form, a copy of a copy etc . . . making it ever harder to read. Whatever else is in this collection, this essay alone justfies the cost of this volume: this is an essay that should be read by any serious student of Oakeshott’s work.
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