A most elegant close-grained review essay of Mark Rowlands’ Memory and the Self: Phenomenology, Science and Autobiography by Christopher Jude McCarroll in The Journal of Mind and Behavior. [E]verything bears witness to what we are, our friendships and enmities, our glance and the clasp of our hand, our memory and that which we do not remember, our books…
Here is the first (and timely) offering from the series Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism. Austrian Economicsclassical liberalismEconomicsequalitymikayla novakpolitical economyPolitical philosophy
This recent book sounds most appealing what with a chapter entitled “Walker Percy’s Search”. An endorsement by Brian Smith is recommendation enough. Edith Whartonelizabeth amatohappinessLiberalismNathaniel Hawthornephilosophical literaturePolitical philosophyTom WolfeWalker Percy
IF IT IS TRUE that both Anglo-American empiricism and European existentialism contain valid insights, then in respect of the failure to make a unifying effort toward giving an account of all realities, the former is surely the worse offender. For the existentialists do take note of empirical science, if only to demote it to some…
Davide Orsi et al. discuss Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations 25 years on. (Complete book open access) cultureDavide Orsi.islamMichael OakeshottPolitical philosophyregressive leftSamuel P. HuntingtonThomas Hobbes
A recent freely available article by sociologist Bo Isenberg entitled “A modern calamity – Robert Musil on stupidity” in Journal of Classical Sociology. This voluntary subordination might be dispassionate or fanatical and relates to not only collective ideologies, nationalism and totalitarianism but also excessive rationalism. To Musil, nationalism and totalitarianism are manifestations of the most treacherous forms…
Due in the autumn. 4eCognitive sciencedaniel huttoEmbeddedembodiedenactiveExtended cognitionKen AizawaMark RowlandsPhilosophy of mindShaun Gallaghersituated cognitionTom Froese
Episode 9 of Marc’s podcast. ethicsJordan PetersonKantMarc Champagnemoral philosophyMoral psychologyReligionuniversalization
Raymond Aron’s classic freely available here. One of the causes of the popularity of Marxism among educated people was the fact that in its simple form it was very easy; even Sartre noticed that Marxists are lazy. Indeed, they enjoyed having one key to open all doors, one universally applicable explanation for everything, an instrument…
Shortly to be released. Eric VoegelinFriedrich HayekGene CallahanGilbert Rylelee trepanierLudwig WittgensteinMichael OakeshottMichael PolanyirationalismTradition
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