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Some more optical illusions – really variations on a couple of themes – see here – and here.
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Dewey and Oakeshott on Politics and Education
Here’s a very recent paper from the Philosophy of Education. Here is the correct link for Francis Schrag’s reference to Bob Grant’s “On Writing Michael Oakeshott’s Biography.” Speaking of which, Bob Grant has written a fantastic biographical essay “The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism in Love” for Paul and my Companion. Bob GrantMichael OakeshottPhilosophy of Educationrationalism
Rob Rupert Papers
Check out two forthcoming papers from Rob Rupert, one of the sharpest minds around: 1. Against Group Cognitive States (forthcoming in S. Chant and G. Preyer (eds.), From Individual to Collective Intentionality. No listing on OUP’s website yet). English users are not fazed by such sentences as “Microsoft intends to develop a new operating system” and…
Liberal Education
A review in The Economist of Stefan Collini’s What Are Universities For? The best articulation of the instrumental/intrinsic debate is still Oakeshott’s The Voice of Liberal Learning. Here is the first essay from VLL online. And Paul Franco is tackling this topic for the Oakeshott Companion. Mr Collini is moved by Newman’s insistence that a liberal education is…
Paradoxical Roots of “Social Construction”
David Kaiser reviews Michael Polanyi and His Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science by Mary Jo Nye. Fifteen years ago, scientists, historians, and sociologists traded salvos in what was termed the “science wars.” Passions ran high; “social construction of science” became a battle cry. Critics like physicist Alan Sokal pointed an accusing finger at…
Cognitive Enhancement
An article from The Atlantic. Allen Buchanan interviewed about his recent book. I think that any appeal to the notion of human nature, on either side of the enhancement debate, is tricky and problematic and has to be handled with care. Yes, in one sense we might say that it’s part of human nature to strive…
Remembering Herbert Simon
Simon died this day in 2001. Check out these two books – Models of a Man (as with most edited books this is uneven, but there is still much to recommend it) and Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America, an excellent intellectual biography. Speaking of Simon, I have a paper coming out entitled…
A Romp Through Philosophy of Mind
Here is the delightful Marianne Talbot (thrown out of school at 15 for “truancy and disruption”) presenting four podcasts: Part 1: Identity Theory and Why it Won’t Work Part 2: Non-Reductive Physicalisms and the Problems they Face Part 3: If Physicalism won’t work, what is the alternative? Part 4: Are we asking the wrong questions?…
New EPISTEME url update
I want to bring your attention to the primary EPISTEME url. No longer will the extentions eu.com/us.com be valid. Here is Cambridge University Press’ EPISTEME page. Cambridge University PressEPISTEMEEpistemologysocial epistemology
A Disposition of Delight
My chum and the new president of the Michael Oakeshott Association, Elizabeth Corey, has just had this article published in First Things. Since this article is by subscription, I will only post a couple of extracts that caught my eye. Elizabeth is an excellent scholar whose chapter entitled “The Religious Sensibility of Michael Oakeshott” will be…
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