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a companion to michael oakeshott, oakeshott

Review of Franco-Marsh Companion

Review essay of A Companion to Michael Oakeshott CONVERSATIONS WITH MICHAEL OAKESHOTT – AN INTERLUDE TO OAKESHOTT SCHOLARSHIP by Suvi Soininen Redescriptions: yearbook of political thought, conceptual history and feminist theory. 2012/2013, vol. 16, pp. 172-187 (in downloadable pdf) a companion to michael oakeshottaestheticsBritish IdealismConservatismConversationEpistemologyexperience and its modesHayekhistory of political thoughtLeslie MarshLiberalismMichael Oakeshotton human conductPaul Francophilosophical jurisprudencePhilosophy of…

episteme, epistemology, social epistemology

EPISTEME 10:3

See here. GETTIERIZED KNOBE EFFECTS James R. Beebe and Joseph Shea A RELIABILISM BUILT ON COGNITIVE CONVERGENCE: AN EMPIRICALLY GROUNDED SOLUTION TO THE GENERALITY PROBLEM Martin L. Jönsson A NEW PROSPECT FOR EPISTEMIC AGGREGATION Daniel Berntson and Yoaav Isaacs PHOTOGRAPHICALLY BASED KNOWLEDGE Dan Cavedon-Taylor EXPLANATIONIST EVIDENTIALISM Kevin McCain IS FOUNDATIONAL A PRIORI JUSTIFICATION INDISPENSABLE? Ted Poston…

plato

Sun, Line and the Cave

Plato’s simile of light – the images of the Sun, the Divided Line and the Cave are outlined in the Republic at the close of Book VI and at the beginning of Book VII. The simile of light has attracted a vast literature from Nettleship’s Victorian lectures, down through the work of James Adam, Henry Jackson and…

Fred Dretske

Fred Dretske (1932-2013)

This from Philosophy of Brains. In this age of histrionics, he was a thoughtful, honest, and thorough thinker. He was often more thorough in discussing the weaknesses of his position than the people who thought they were providing original critiques of his work. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEpistemologyFred Dretskephilosophical psychologyPhilosophyPhilosophy of mind

social epistemology

Science as collective knowledge

Here is the into to Kristina’s article. In contemporary philosophy of science it has become a truism to claim that scientific knowledge is social knowledge. Yet there is a diversity of views about what is “social” in scientific inquiry and why it is of epistemic interest (Rolin, 2004). One approach to understanding the “social” in…

extended mind

The socially extended mind

Spot on Shaun!!! This is exactly what I’ve been banging on about over the past six years – very nice validation from a top-notch theorist. The fruits of my labour will be available in its full form next year as a book entitled Stigmergic Cognition. Andy ClarkCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessCritical theoryDavid ChalmersenactivismEpistemologyExtended MindExternalismInstitutionsParity Principlephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindShaun…

hayek

Hayek and Behavioral Economics

Still on Hayek. Having just received my copy, I thought I’d give it another plug. My chapter Mindscapes and Landscapes: Hayek and Simon on Cognitive Extension is in this collection. The full line-up as follows: Foreword; V. Smith Introduction; R. Frantz & R. Leeson Friedrich Hayek’s Behavioural Economics in Historical Context; R. Frantz A Hayekian/Kirznerian Economic History of…