Category Archive Browsing Category: social epistemology

The formation, acquisition, mediation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge in complex communities of knowers.

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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…

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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…

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Key Terms in Philosophy of Mind

Pete Mandik is trailing his forthcoming book – Key Terms in Philosophy of Mind – to be published by Continuum. From what I’ve read of Pete’s work, he always offers a reliable hard-nosed account of issues in the philosophy of mind and is very up on the literature – he is not stuck in rehashing philosophy…

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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…