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The remarkable ‘love story’ between great thinkers Adam Smith and David Hume is told in a new play
As reported in The Scotsman. Tickets. Adam Smithclassical liberalismDavid HumefriendshipScottish Enlightenment
Adam Smith @ 300
Adam Smith’s Quiet Christianity — Deidre McCloskey/Adam Smith Understood That We Need Each Other — Vernon Smith/Butchers, Brewers, and Bakers Still Thrive in Urban Marketplaces — M. Nolan Gray/Symposium on Jesse Norman’s Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters/Symposium on Jack Russell Weinstein’s Adam Smith’s Pluralism: Rationality, Education And The Moral Sentiments/Propriety and…
A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise Capitalism
I mentioned this a while back. Adam SmithcapitalismCarl WennerlindDavid HumeEconomicsMargaret Schabaspolitical economyScottish Enlightenmentscottish philosophy
David Hume
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A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism
This forthcoming title promises to be a fascinating read. Hopefully it delivers. Adam Smithcapitalismclassical liberalismDavid HumeEconomicspolitical economy
Adam Smith as Scottish Philosopher
Was Adam Smith a Scottish philosopher? The question seems an odd one. He was a philosopher and he was Scottish. What more could we need to know, in order to arrive at the simple answer ‘yes.’ And in any case, why does it matter? On reflection, however, neither the question nor the answer seems so…
The Poor Lady Immured: Notes on Public Philosophy
The very excellent Eugene Heath in Metaphilosophy. Philosophy should not be immured within the confines of the university but should step confidently into the communal spaces of society. Philosophy should include, in other words, public philosophy. What, however, is public philosophy? And is it an unalloyed good? These questions are the subject of this essay.…
Taleb the Philosopher
Since I’m deeply in Boëthius mode for my forthcoming edited book of essays on A Confederacy of Dunces, this invocation of Boëthius and Taleb grabbed me. Here is Joshua Hochschild’s review of Taleb’s collected works. Boethius the patron saint of bullshit detectors. Taleb displays familiarity with many expected theorists of epistemological humility: Montaigne and Hume, Hayek…
Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
Published today — this should get some regressive knickers in a twist. In the past century, the tradition of Freudian psychology popularized the idea that our psychological dispositions could be traced to formative childhood experiences. In many areas of modern academic sociology and psychology this belief is still widespread, though it has been extended to…
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