Online Oakeshottiana
Some Oakeshottiana can be found online available for download. Oakeshott’s Introduction to Hobbes Letter on Hobbes A fragment from a Spanish version of the Voice of Liberal Learning Hobbes on Civil Association
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Brin and Page: We assume page A has pages T1, . . ., Tn which point to it (i.e., are citations). The parameter d is a damping factor which can be set between 0 and 1. We usually set d to 0.85, . . ., C(A) is defined as the number of links going out of page A. The…
Bayesian Reconstruction of Natural Images from Human Brain Activity
Article in latest issue of Neuron – well worth checking out.
Ryle & Oakeshott on the “Knowing-How/Knowing-That” Distinction
Some two and a half years ago I previewed this paper. For several reasons, not least because of my faffing about and constantly reworking it in light of new reading, not to mention wrestling with some Quine and Frege, it only now has gone to press. Here are the first and last sections. Section II…
Key Terms in Philosophy of Mind
Pete Mandik is trailing his forthcoming book – Key Terms in Philosophy of Mind – to be published by Continuum. From what I’ve read of Pete’s work, he always offers a reliable hard-nosed account of issues in the philosophy of mind and is very up on the literature – he is not stuck in rehashing philosophy…
Amy Gutmann cites Oakeshott
Oakeshott cited by Penn State President in convocation address. (Quote from “The Idea of A University,” p. 103, Voice of Liberal Learning, Yale 1989.) Succumbing to the temptation of easy answers would be fatal to your intellectual growth. You did not come to Penn to regress into what Michael Oakeshott called “the clamorous and conflicting…
Julius Moravcsik
Leiter reports on the passing of Julius Moravcsik. I recall Moravcsik’s work on Aristotle’s metaphysics as being a model of clarity and being informed by recent philosophy of mind. A top-draw philosopher who published because he had something to say; not because he liked the “sound of his own voice”. Click here for a bio-sketch. Julius…
Alan Turing
The BBC has been running a series of articles on Turing. For those of us who often discuss the conceptual aspects of liberty through the great works of social and political philosophy, we should stop and think about how our liberty was, to a great extent, preserved by Alan Turing. According to Winston Churchill, Turing…
Lies
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Anthony Grayling’s article Don’t dismiss dishonesty, it can be virtuous takes wing from two law lecturer’s research (no citation given), who according to Grayling, say “that they have found that there is no consensus in our society about what honesty is.” Grayling’s thesis, as interesting…
Oakeshott ’09 Programme
MICHAEL OAKESHOTT ASSOCIATION BAYLOR UNIVERSITY WACO, TEXAS NOVEMBER 12-14, 2009 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009 6:30 PM Check-in—Foyer of Armstrong Browning Library 7:00 PM Dinner in Cox Reception Hall 7:45-9:00 Address—Timothy Fuller FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009 8:30-9:00 Coffee service 9:00 -10:15 Address—Roger Scruton: “Politics and Conversation” 10:30-12:00 Panel 1: Oakeshott and Strauss…
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