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Oakeshott Avenue was, I think, named after Michael’s father a prominent Fabian of the day. Google map.
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Oakeshott on Religion, Science and Politics
The recent Zygon symposium on Oakeshott on religion, science and politics is now available as a free download. Click here and scroll down to the REFLECTING ON MICHAEL OAKESHOTT section.
NEPSA Oakeshott Panel
For a long time the preeminent Oakeshott scholar in New England has been Paul Franco: this hasn’t changed. Fortunately, Paul’s presence has attracted other Oakeshott experts. Once again, Maine has proved to be an unlikely place for Oakeshott. As it happens, the New England Political Science Association’s (NEPSA) annual meeting took place in Portland with an…
Oakeshott Bibliography Update
The latest update of the Oakeshott bibliography is now available. A big thanks to Efraim Podoksik for the sterling effort he’s put in over the years in this regard.
Oakeshott’s Relativism
Attributions of relativism to Oakeshott are twofold: The first, and the more common attribution, is from the general perspective of viewing Oakeshott as a postmodern relativist. The second, more technical aspect and less familiar attribution, involves the assumption that Oakeshott was a coherentist. I examine the second view first. On this assumption it is standard to…
Oakeshott Conference: CFP extended
The MOA CFP has been extended to May 15.
Oakeshott in Time
With the complete digitization of Time Magazine’s archives I was able to find what must rank as Oakeshott’s highest profile and amusing press splash – Knowledge v. Pet Ideas – and this well before the essays collected under the banner of Rationalism in Politics. I love the footnote: Among Oakeshott’s publications is a treatise entitled A Guide to…
Philosopher of Conversation
Here’s a piece from The Spectator written by, I suspect, John Casey. It looks like it’s dated 25 May 1985. Paul Franco gave it to me a few years ago and I’d folded it into a book and forgot about it. Click image a few times to enlarge.
Oakeshott symposium
The Oakeshott symposium on science, religion, and politics in the journal Zygon is now online. In this issue there is also a symposium on Owen Flanagan’s latest book The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World. I was scheduled to participate in this symposium, a symposium that I’d originally suggested, but my computer went…
CFP: Michael Oakeshott Association Conference
Michael Oakeshott Association Conference November 12-14, 2009 Baylor University Waco, Texas 2009 marks the fifth meeting of the Michael Oakeshott Association, a group founded in 2001 to encourage the study of one of the 20th century’s most important political philosophers. Previous conferences have taken place at the London School of Economics, Colorado College, and the…
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