Introduction to Hayek
Introduction to Hayek – Hayek: Freedom’s Philosopher – Fighting the Planners (36 minutes) Inside the Hayek Equation – Hayek interview, Stanford 197? (30 minutes)
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Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets
I’d like to plug a book co-authored by a correspondent of mine, Lila Rajiva. The subject matter should have some appeal to swarm theorists and others interested in complexity theory be they economists or political theorists. Lila Rajiva offers the following outline of the book’s subject matter. ============================================ Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets (Bill Bonner and…
CFP: Religion and Biotechnology
I don’t normally make CFP announcements for projects I’m not involved in, but I’m making an exception for a mate of mine. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The continuous and constantly accelerated introduction of advanced new technologies allowing an unprecedented variety of novel applications is inundating our social and private life. One important species of these technological breakthroughs biotechnology, concerns a…
Protected: Social Organicism in the Political Philosophy of Bernard Bosanquet
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Has liberty a place in Hobbes’ philosophy?
In memory of Paul Hirst (Paul was the only member in the School of Politics and Sociology that “got it”. He never allowed his own ideological predelictions to colour his approach to students’ work – he relished giving a fair and insightful account of positions he didn’t hold to, which I noticed confused students who were there…
Some other works-in-progress
I have good drafts of four papers that I’ll post as and when I’ve polished them up: 1. Social organicism in the political philosophy of Bernard Bosanquet Now available here. Abstract: This paper is an attempt to retrieve one part of Bosanquet’s political philosophy, the positive part which I term his “Social Organicism”. The most…
Hayek: Cognitive Scientist Avant la Lettre
The following is an abstract for my forthcoming (2009) contibution to: The Social Science of Hayek’s ‘The Sensory Order’ William N. Butos, Volume Editor Advances in Austrian Economics Hayek: Cognitive Scientist Avant la Lettre This paper conceives of Hayek’s overall project as presenting a theory of sociocognition, explication of which has a twofold purpose: 1.…
Hayek: father of social epistemology and cognitive scientist avant la lettre
Friedrich Hayek must rate as one the greatest intellects of the twentieth century. I take the view that his achievement is on a par with his cousin – Wittgenstein. Most people know Hayek for his political philosophy, philosophy of economics, philosophy of social science and philosophical jurisprudence. The distinctive and unifying thread across all Hayek’s thought was…
Brief thoughts on “political correctness”
So-called “political correctness” (PC) is an oxymoron: it posits a metric, the implication being that there is an objective standard being referred to, which of course is being rejected in the first instance by PC’s inherent relativism. Radical social constructionism in its attempt to reject essentialism (race, gender, nationality, class, and so on) through the…
Why were the early Christians persecuted?
I This well-worn question needs to be re-analyzed into the following three subsidiary questions. First, for what reasons did the government (i.e. the organs of state, broadly speaking, the emperor, the senate, officials, and provincial governors) persecute? Secondly, for what reasons did ordinary pagans (i.e. the general populace) demand persecution? Thirdly, we need to examine…
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