Scanlon on Libertarianism and Liberty
Thomas Scanlon in the Boston Review on “How Not to Argue for Limited Government and Lower Taxes“
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Rationalism in Politics in Hebrew: מייקל אוקשוט הרציונליזם בפוליטיקה
Efraim Podoksik has just had his Hebrew translation of Oakeshott’s Rationalism in Politics published. This initiative must have taken some doing since Oakeshott was such a great stylist. So far as I know, the lead essay and/or the whole book has been translated into French, Spanish, Polish and Chinese. Here is the contents/intro/index. מייקל אוקשוט…
Trailing Hayek in Mind
Here is the table of contents for my forthcoming (in press) edited volume focusing on The Sensory Order – this is the first salvo of shameless promotion. CONTENTS “SOCIALIZING” THE MIND AND “COGNITIVIZING” SOCIALITY Leslie Marsh “MARGINAL MEN”: WEIMER ON HAYEK Walter Weimer PART I: NEUROSCIENCE HAYEK IN TODAY’S COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE Joaquín Fuster THE NON-CARTESIAN…
The Morality of Freedom 25 Years On
Seeing an announcement for an upcoming conference commemorating the 25th anniversary of Joe Raz‘ The Morality of Freedom nudged me to post recordings of a similar conference held to commemorate the book’s 20th anniversary with no less than Raz himself in attendance. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3:
Oakeshott Conference: Tulsa 2011
Religion, Politics and the Future of Liberal Education: The Tenth Anniversary Meeting of the Michael Oakeshott Association, 2001-2011 UNIVERSITY OF TULSA OCTOBER 13-16, 2011 2011 marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Michael Oakeshott Association, a group established to encourage the critical study of one of the twentieth century’s most important political philosophers.…
Jurisprudence and Oakeshott
Here is a just published paper that draws heavily on Oakeshott. Ratio Juris. Vol. 23 No. 4 December 2010 (460–78) Abstract. There is a vast literature on the meanings of legal penalties. However, we lack a theory that explains them according to the formation of the modern state. Oakeshott’s theory can help explain this phenomenon, leading to…
Michael Oakeshott’s Skepticism
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.
Zappa takes on Bloom
Here’s a curiosity (well not really, Zappa was always the most articulate and most sceptical of “beat” composers). Here is Zappa responding to passages from Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind. “On Junk Food for the Soul” New Perspective’s Quarterly, 1987 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE NATURE OF MUSIC “Music is the soul’s primitive and primary speech……
Albert Camus
Here is a review article I came across in The Economist. Having read Camus in my youth knowing little about his life and even less about his philosophical perspective, time permitting I’m inclined to rediscover him (I was taken by Visconti’s adaptation of L’Étranger). And anyone sidelined by Sartre (a fate to befall the great…
The Social Science of Hayek’s The Sensory Order
Here are the publisher’s details for this soon-to-be released volume that includes my paper “Hayek: cognitive scientist avant la lettre“
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