This is the latest issue of EPISTEME: it’s currently available as hard copy but not online, though this will happen before long. EPISTEMIC APPROACHES TO DEMOCRACY Guest Editor: David Estlund • Introduction: Epistemic Approaches to Democracy, David Estlund • Science, Religion, and Democracy, Philip Kitcher • The Epistemic Value of the Democratic Process, William Nelson…
EPISTEME Issue 4.3 A themed issue on Testimony – will be freely available for download for 14 days only (July 7- July 14). Take advantage of this freebie.
Jack Vettriano
Here is the collection of newly commissioned essays edited by Paul Franco and Leslie Marsh forthcoming from Penn State University Press. 1. Editorial Introduction (Paul Franco & Leslie Marsh) The editors give an overview of the importance of Oakeshott to 20th Century philosophy and account for the abiding interest in Oakeshott’s work. 2. The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism…
This press release from the National Science Foundation would confound those who subscribe to Thomas Nagel’s classic thought experiment.
This weekend saw the fifth annual EPISTEME conference take place at Dartmouth College. The highlight for me was meeting the legendary Larry Laudan (left) – not only was he great company but his performance was outstanding.
In today’s Guardian there is an article entitled Who do you think I am? with the tag line “It’s all too easy to categorise people but it isn’t inevitable. We can still consider the alternatives.” The writer is quite correct so say that: Identity is a contemporary buzzword and goes onto list instances of its…
Two behaviorists have just had sex. He says to her: “It was great for you, how was it for me?”
Jack Greenleaf has died. Greenleaf provided the first full length study of Oakeshott. We did speak in 2001 since I’d hoped he’d come to the inaugural conference of the Michael Oakeshott Association at the LSE. The sense that I got was that he felt somewhat resentful for primarily being known for his work on Oakeshott. It…
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t. …
