Odd fellows: academic ideas about racing certainties
More Oakeshottiana. Geoffrey Wheatcroft reviews the reissue of A Guide to the Classics in the TLS. A Guide to the ClassicsGeoffrey WheatcroftGuy GriffithMichael Oakeshott
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Hobby Horses
John Gray discusses the reissue of A Guide to the Classics or How to Pick the Derby Winner in the Literary Review. For both authors, the point of betting on the horses was not so much profiting from the wager as the satisfaction that came from picking the winner. A Guide to the ClassicsGuy Griffithjohn grayMichael…
What a 1930s horse racing guide by a conservative philosopher could teach sports scientists today
Ed Smith in the New Statesman. A Guide to the ClassicsConservatismGuy GriffithLiberalismMichael OakeshottPhilosophy of history
A Guide to the Classics or How to Pick the Derby Winner
A long anticipated reissue. A Guide to the ClassicsGuy Griffithhorse racingMichael OakeshottPeter OsborneSean Magee
Stochastic rationality in Oakeshott’s philosophy
With the MOA conference about to start in just under a week here’s an excellent and unusual piece by Erika Kiss entitled “The rules of the game: Stochastic rationality in Oakeshott’s rule-of-law theory — unusual in that Oakeshott’s A New Guide to the Derby rarely features in an academic paper beyond being mentioned as a curiosity. The rest…
A New Guide to the Derby: How to Pick the Winner
After some twenty-two years I finally have the complete suite of Oakeshottiana. Given that copies are pretty pricey, this was a most generous Christmas gift. And in case you’re wondering who Guy Griffith was, here is his British Academy entry. To this period also belongs the book that Oakeshott co-authored with Guy Griffith, A Guide…
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