A Companion to Michael Oakeshott
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Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith
Galleys have now been generated for this collection. Here is the finalized table of contents. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List of Figures Foreword by Vernon L. Smith Acknowledgements List of Contributors List of Abbreviations 1: Introduction: Epistemology not Ideology: David F. Hardwick and Leslie Marsh Part I: Context 2: Adam Smith as a Scottish Philosopher: Gordon Graham 3: Friendship in…
Low
Thirty-seven years on this record has lost none of its bleak power, a truly adult record in a sea of rock banality: As a recovering cocaine addict, Bowie’s songwriting on Low tended to deal with difficult issues: “There’s oodles of pain in the Low album. That was my first attempt to kick cocaine, so that…
Cities and Private Planning
My chum and editor of C+T has just had this book published. I learnt much from his companion volume of a few years ago. citiescities and private planningdavid emanuel anderssonplanningrationalismspontaneous orders
D.G. Myers
It has been announced that D.G. Myers has passed away. d.g. myersliterary criticismliterary history
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 72
“Irene!” Santa said angrily. “You all the time thinking of that boy, and with all the trouble he’s giving you. You better wake up, babe. If you had any sense, you woulda had that boy locked away at Charity Hospital a long time ago. They’d turn a hose on him. They’d stick a letrit socket…
Extensive enactivism: why keep it all in?
This open access from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Radical enactive and embodied approaches to cognitive science oppose the received view in the sciences of the mind in denying that cognition fundamentally involves contentful mental representation. This paper argues that the fate of representationalism in cognitive science matters significantly to how best to understand the extent…
New Orleans: A Living Museum of Music
New Orleans is a city where cultural tradition matters. In New Orleans there is a balance between innovation and tradition. Improvisation never comes out of nothing. It is always rooted in history . . . in New Orleans. So this is an environment where people sort of backslide into the future. — Bruce Boyd Raeburn…
Oakeshott conference details: Hull 2015
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Extended cognition and the explosion of knowledge
Penultimate version. The aim of this article is to show that externalist accounts of cognition such as Clark and Chalmers’ (1998) “active externalism” lead to an explosion of knowledge that is caused by online resources such as Wikipedia and Google. I argue that externalist accounts of cognition imply that subjects who integrate mobile Internet access…
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