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Clash of the Titans: When the Market and Science Collide
Here is the abstract and the introduction from the volume Experts and Epistemic Monopolies where our paper can be found. Abstract Purpose/problem statement – Two highly successful complex adaptive systems are the Market and Science, each with an inherent tendency toward epistemic imperialism. Of late, science, notably medical science, seems to have become functionally subservient to…
Michael Oakeshott on the Rule of Law and the Liberal Order
Tim Fuller, one of our Companion’s eminent contributors, here with an article on the Liberty Fund website. A defining theme of Michael Oakeshott’s thought is that, through the past five centuries, European civilization can count among its greatest achievements the invention of “civil association” and the clarification of the “rule of law.” These are arrangements…
Oakeshott as Conservative
Rob Devigne (or maybe it’s really Jack Nicholson) looks at Oakeshott’s ostensibly conservative stance – as several in this volume point out, this is very tricky territory indeed. Oakeshott is not a conservative that even most self-avowed conservatives would typically recognise. The identification of Michael Oakeshott with conservatism is fraught with debate. To be sure, some…
Liberty versus libertarianism
Here’s an article by my chum Gene Callahan, someone very well versed in both the libertarian and the Oakeshott worlds. AristotleGene CallahanLiberalismLibertarianismMichael OakeshottOakeshottPoliticsrationalism
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