For those who’ve never read that most subtle, cultivated, humane and refined of minds Michael Oakeshott’s concerns resonate as deeply as ever. For the novice, I’d recommend his mid-career Rationalism in Politics, a most elegant collection of essays. A more difficult, but for me the vital underpinning cutting across all his work, is his equally elegant and…
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My sometime collaborator, Ted Lewis, has co-authored this piece in American Scientist. AIcomputational intelligenceconsciousnessMachine learningneurosciencePhilosophy of mindTed Lewis
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On this day marking the expulsion. The removal of the Jews from the Arab world has been all but ignored, says Tom Gross. Of course, the regressives are conspicuously silent on this. anti-SemitismislamJudaismLyn Juliusregressive lefttom gross
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See Maimonides’ entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Guide for the Perplexed is freely available from the Liberty Fund. At his trial for impiety in 399 B.C., Socrates was asked how it is that the wisest person in Athens claims to be ignorant of the knowledge he seeks. His answer (Apology 23a-b) is that he…
To mark the birth of Robert Nozick here is a rare interview I came across: it begins at 3:25. Michael TomsPhilosophyRobert Nozick
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