Programa Filosofia – Ceticismo x Comunicação – Michael Oakeshott. I found this on You Tube and supposedly references Oakeshott’s “The Masses in Representative Democracy”. I’ll have to ask João Carlos Espada (Catholic University of Portugal) about this.
Bernard Crick has died. About 10 years ago I had a brief correspondence with him hoping he’d be interested in attending the inaugural conference of the Michael Oakeshott Association. In Oakeshott circles, Crick was notorious for his snippy article on Oakeshott entitled “The World of Michael Oakeshott: Or the Lonely Nihilist”, Encounter, 20 (June 1963). From…
Here is my introduction to the Zygon symposium on Oakeshott to appear in the March 2009 issue. This is an uncorrected proof – do not cite.
It’s been a while since I’ve made a posting in political philosophy. With the US election about to take place I thought it an opportune time to bang on about getting one’s terms adequately defined. It’s clear that so-called conservatives neither self-avowed liberals can give an adequate characterization of liberalism. For a sound overview of liberalism see…
A New Yorker piece by Adam Gopnik: more a précis than a review but nonetheless quite interesting. Though the target book is touted as an intellectual biography, one doesn’t get that sense, at least from Gopnik. A recent benchmark for an intellectual biography is Bruce Caldwell’s Hayek’s Challenge.
Alvin Goldman, the doyen of analytic social epistemology, has a draft paper posted on his website entitled “The Social Epistemology of Blogging.” What’s gratifying to me is that via Richard Posner (whom Goldman cites), Hayek, who I have argued is the social epistemologist par excellence, makes an appearance. I have recently argued that if Hayek was centrally…
A rather belated plug for this book. The follow up is currently being edited.
Anthony Grayling has convened a “symposium” on Reason in the latest issue of the New Scientist. Grayling’s position is very predictable but credit to him and the editors for bringing together a diverse group who for the most part seem to disagree with his conception. Neuroscientist Chris Frith, mathematician Roger Penrose and philosopher Mary Midgley are…
Here are the abstracts for the forthcoming Zygon: A Journal of Religion and Science symposium on Oakeshott. Elizabeth Corey (Baylor) RELIGION AND THE MODE OF PRACTICE IN MICHAEL OAKESHOTT Michael Oakeshott’s religious view of the world stands behind much of his political and philosophical writing. The present essay proceeds first by discussing Oakeshott’s view of religion…
Here is the collection of newly commissioned essays edited by Paul Franco and Leslie Marsh forthcoming from Penn State University Press. 1. Editorial Introduction (Paul Franco & Leslie Marsh) The editors give an overview of the importance of Oakeshott to 20th Century philosophy and account for the abiding interest in Oakeshott’s work. 2. The Pursuit of Intimacy, or Rationalism…
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