Here’s a review of Aryeh Botwinick’s recent book Michael Oakeshott’s Skepticism by my co-editor Paul Franco. Here is the opening salvo: This is a strange book. From the title, one might expect that it would take up Oakeshott’s complicated understanding and deployment of skepticism throughout his philosophical career; perhaps also his relationship to such favorite skeptical…
I’ve finally received a copy of Aryeh Botwinick’s book that I noted last year. The topic of Oakeshott’s scepticism has occupied Aryeh for a good decade now when he presented a paper at the inaugural conference of the MOA in 2001 entitled “Unifying Skeptical Motifs in Oakeshott’s Thought”. Thanks is due to none other than…
Here’s a new book by Aryeh Botwinick that will hit the shelves in November much sooner than the listed February of next year (or so Aryeh has been advised by PUP). Chapter 1 is available for download.
Here’s a forthcoming book on Oakeshott. Aryeh Botwinick spoke at the inaugural of the MOA on this topic. I never thought Oakeshott had anything to say about personal identity (at least in the Lockean tradition) – so I look forward to see what Botwinick says.
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