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Symposium on Scott Scheall’s F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics
New issue of C+T classical liberalismcosmos+taxisFriedrich HayekPolitical philosophyscott scheallsocial epistemology
Symposium on Brian A. Smith’s Walker Percy and the Politics of the Wayfarer
Freely available here allen Mendenhallbrian smithChristopher Adair-Toteffelizabeth amatoFarrell O’GormanFriedrich Hayekjessica hooten wilsonMichael OakeshottTimothy FullerWalker Percy
Coleman Hughes on Thomas Sowell
The very excellent Coleman Hughes in City Journal coleman hughesEconomicsFriedrich Hayekidentity politicsKarl MarxThomas Sowell
The Death of Liberalism? An Interview With Nicholas Capaldi
Zbigniew Janowski interviews Nick about his latest book (and chats about much more besides. Friedrich HayekJohn Stuart MillLiberalismMichael OakeshottNicholas Capaldirule of lawZbigniew Janowski
Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism
Just published. anti-rationalismEdmund BurkeEnlightenmentEric VoegelinFriedrich HayekFriedrich NietzscheGene CallahanKenneth McIntyreKierkegaardMichael Oakeshottrationalism
“China’s Hayek” and the Horrors of Totalitarianism: The Liberal Lessons in Gu Zhun’s Thought
Chapter 10, Chor-yung Cheung: chinachor-yung cheungclassical liberalismdemocracyFriedrich HayekGu Zhuntotalitarianism
If You’re a Classical Liberal, How Come You’re Also an Egalitarian?
Åsbjørn Melkevikclassical liberalismegalitarianFriedrich HayekMilton Friedmansocial justice
Symposium on Peter Boettke’s “F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy”
Austrian Economicscosmos & taxisEconomicsFriedrich HayekPeter Boettkepolitical economysocial philosophy
. . . but our brain can’t understand the picture
Hayek already wrote in The Sensory Order (1952) that “An apparatus of classification cannot explain anything more complex than itself” and that “The whole idea of the mind explaining itself is a logical contradiction’’. Hayek takes this incompleteness — the constitutional inability of mind to explain itself — to be a generalized case of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. See…
