Levi-Strauss Dead
Just about a year ago the centenary of Levi-Strauss’ birth was marked. Today it is reported that he is dead.
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Constructivism and Relativism in Oakeshott
Here is a MS of my paper that was published here.
Hayek Interview
Here is a transcript of a 15.25-hour interview completed under the auspices of the UCLA Oral History Program and the Pacific Academy of Advanced Studies. I haven’t read the piece so I can’t vouch for its quality (I don’t recognise the interviewers). Anyway, one would hope that there will be some interest within the 1,046…
Neuroscience and Politics
Over the last few years there has been a rash of articles concerning the relationship of neuroscience to politics – Wired – BoingBoing – Crooked Timber. On this topic, here’s a recent posting from the ever-thoughtful Corey Abel. Update: assimilating this paper.
Friedrich A. Hayek: His Life and Work
Here is a lecture on Hayek by disciple Kurt Leube, someone I have had a brief correspondence with. Not deep stuff but I suppose a decent introduction. Interestingly enough he touches upon The Sensory Order though Leube’s enthusiasm for/assessment of this work is way over the top: “TSO is one of the most celebrated books…
Connected
Yet another “popular” book on, as I term it, social connectionism – Connected – see New Scientist review. Shame about the dreadful dust jacket hype on Amazon.com.
Ryle & Oakeshott on the “Knowing-How/Knowing-That” Distinction
Some two and a half years ago I previewed this paper. For several reasons, not least because of my faffing about and constantly reworking it in light of new reading, not to mention wrestling with some Quine and Frege, it only now has gone to press. Here are the first and last sections. Section II…
Lies
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Anthony Grayling’s article Don’t dismiss dishonesty, it can be virtuous takes wing from two law lecturer’s research (no citation given), who according to Grayling, say “that they have found that there is no consensus in our society about what honesty is.” Grayling’s thesis, as interesting…
Computer Simulations in Social Epistemology
Another reminder: check out the special themed EPISTEME issue edited by Igor Douven.
The Elusive Oakeshott
Here is a characteristically lucid piece by Ken Minogue on Oakeshott’s supposed conservatism. It should be noted that conservatism as Oakeshott understood it, is an anathema to “conservatism” understood in the American context. I take the view that these the terms are not at all helpful and are, for the most part, vulgarized. Oakeshott was…
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