Symposium on Robert Vinten’s Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences: Action, Ideology, and Justice
Cosmos + Taxis classical liberalismcosmos+taxisideologyLudwig Wittgensteinphilosophy of social scienceRobert Vinten
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Studies in Classical Liberalism: Three New Titles
See here. Alessandro Rosselliclassical liberalismconstructivismideologyrationalismwalter weimer
The Opium of the Intellectuals
Just published with my coauthored contribution. ideologyLiberalismMarxismopium of the intellectualsraymond aron
Pathologizing Ideology, Epistemic Modesty and Instrumental Rationality
Here is an open access reprint in VoegelinView (with minor amendments) of a chapter that first appeared in The Mystery of Rationality: Mind, Beliefs and the Social Sciences, eds. Gérald Bronner and Francesco Di Iorio. ConservatismideologyLiberalismPolitical philosophyrationalismrationality
Conservative theory as sympathetic dissent: the example of Michael Oakeshott
Freely available for download here. ConservatismEno TrimcevideologyLiberalismMichael OakeshottPolitical philosophy
The calling of social thought: Rediscovering the work of Edward Shils
As someone who is a big fan of Shils I’m very much looking forward to this. edward shilsideologyLiberal educationMichael OakeshottMichael PolanyiSocial theorySociologyStephen TurnerTradition
The Mystery of Rationality: Mind, Beliefs and Social Sciences
I have a chapter in this forthcoming book entitled “Pathologizing Ideology, Epistemic Modesty and Instrumental Rationality”. cognitive closurecomplexityEpistemologyideologyphilosophy of social sciencerationalismrationalitysituated cognitionsocial epistemology
Robert Musil on stupidity
A recent freely available article by sociologist Bo Isenberg entitled “A modern calamity – Robert Musil on stupidity” in Journal of Classical Sociology. This voluntary subordination might be dispassionate or fanatical and relates to not only collective ideologies, nationalism and totalitarianism but also excessive rationalism. To Musil, nationalism and totalitarianism are manifestations of the most treacherous forms…
Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted?
Interesting — I hadn’t come across this paper before. (H/T Steve Stewart Williams). I need to assimilate the implications for a chapter I’ve been working on entitled “Pathologizing Ideology, Epistemic Modesty and Instrumental Rationality.” [T]he substantive findings we present here offer a direct challenge to common assumptions and interpretations that political attitudes and behavioral tendencies are shaped…
The Need for an Expanded Theory of Mind in an Era of Increasing Polarisation
This in Conatus News. developmental psychologyideologyphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPoliticssimon baron-cohen
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