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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.

hayek, Inevitability Thesis, leslie marsh, Marx, political philosophy, Road to Serfdom, Samuelson, socialism

Hayek’s Inevitability Thesis

Hayek’s notion of cognitive closure, a mark of the human condition, can be ameliorated if the social and artifactual world functions as a kind of distributed extra-neural memory store manifest as dynamic traditions, part of the resources for acting, thinking or communicating. This cognitive¬epistemological¬liberty tripartite is closely related to a long-standing bone of contention in…

alvin goldman, coherentism, david armstrong, epistemology, idealism, ignoratio elenchi, leslie marsh, michael freeden, modality, modernity, modes, Nozick, oakeshott, podoksik, political philosophy, postmodern, quine, ramsey, relativism, rorty, sellars, terry nardin, truth

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…

A Constitution of Many Minds, Boston Globe, Cass Sunstein, constitutional, constitutionalism, hermeneutics, Mickey Edwards, philosophical jurisprudence, political philosophy, social epistemology, social identity

A Constitution of Minds

In today’s Boston Globe Mickey Edwards reviews Cass Sunstein’s latest book A Constitution of Many Minds. Though I haven’t read the book, Edwards’ rather snippy and ill-informed review calls for some comments. ***************** If “A Constitution of Many Minds” reveals anything, it is that its author may teach about constitutionalism but he is at heart…

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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…

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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…