Symposium on Robert Vinten’s Wittgenstein and the Social Sciences: Action, Ideology, and Justice
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Ved Mehta
I have just learnt that the author of the minor post-War philosophical classic Fly and the Fly-Bottle: Encounters with British Intellectuals, has died: New York Times — The New Yorker. Analytic philosophyernst gellnerGilbert RyleIsaiah BerlinLudwig WittgensteinOxfordVed Mehta
Whereof one cannot speak . . .
Ludwig Wittgensteinphilosophical humorTractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tradition v. Rationalism
Shortly to be released. Eric VoegelinFriedrich HayekGene CallahanGilbert Rylelee trepanierLudwig WittgensteinMichael OakeshottMichael PolanyirationalismTradition
Conservatism and Common-Sense Realism
For a limited time OUP have made freely available several articles from across their small catalogue of philosophy journals, one of which is by the very excellent Kristóf Nyíri in The Monist. ConservatismKristóf NyíriLudwig WittgensteinPhilosophyrealism
Pictorial Truth: Essays on Wittgenstein, Realism, and Conservatism
The most excellent Kristóf Nyíri has alerted me to his freely available self-published book Pictorial Truth: Essays on Wittgenstein, Realism, and Conservatism. Kristóf and I have corresponded intermittently over about thirty years, my coming to him first through his absolutely fascinating early-to-late eighties work on Wittgenstein when, pre-web, I wrote to him expressing my enthusiasms. He has,…
Sir Alistair MacFarlane on Michael Oakeshott
Sir Alistair MacFarlane on the significance of Oakeshott in Philosophy Now. I wouldn’t have guessed that the featured portrait painting is of Oakeshott: it is indeed Maurice Cranston. Alistair MacFarlaneexperience and its modesJohn Stuart MillLiberalismLudwig WittgensteinMichael Oakeshotton human conductPhilosophy
Taleb on the place of religion
As one would expect, a subtle view of religion that rationalists (typically adhering to one secular religion or another) have a blind spot to. Daniel DennettLudwig WittgensteinNassim Nicholas Talebrationalismreligion and scienceRichard Dawkins
Bernard Williams on on Gilbert Ryle
William review of Ryle’s posthumously published On Thinking. I paste in the text below image in case the free access is withdrawn. BTW, Ryle was born on this day in 1900. He was an exceptionally nice man, friendly, generous, uncondescending, unpretentious, and, for a well-known professional philosopher, startlingly free from vanity. . . . he conveyed a…
Problems at the Intersection of Aesthetics and Ethics
The very excellent Seth Vannatta in Response: The Digital Journal of Popular Culture Scholarship. I’d suggest that readers also think about Wittgenstein’s idea in the Tractatus that ethics and aesthetics are one — on which much has been written. I’d also refer readers to the collection of essays entitled Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection. aestheticsAlfred North WhiteheadethicsFurtwänglerHans-Georg GadamerImmanuel KantJohn DeweyLudwig…
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