Saul Kripke (1940-2022)
The last of the 20th century’s bona fide greats. New York Times profile from 1977 metaphyicsmodalityNaming and Necessityphilosophical logicPhilosophySaul Kripke
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Michael Oakeshott: born 120 years ago
For those who’ve never heard Oakeshott, here is his 1948 BBC talk on the philosophy of history. Below is the first page of Experience and its Modes in Oakeshott’s hand. experience and its modesMichael OakeshottPhilosophy
EPISTEME 18(2)
Latest issue EPISTEMEPhilosophysocial epistemology
David Hume
Born on this date in 1711. David HumePhilosophyScottish Enlightenmentscottish philosophy
The Definitive Jonathan Miller Documentary
FT — The Independent — The Times — The Telegraph — The Guardian aestheticscambridge footlightscomedyevolutionary biologyMedicineneuroscienceOliver Sacksoperapathologypeter cookPhilosophyPhilosophy of mindsatire
Rare Robert Nozick interview
To mark the birth of Robert Nozick here is a rare interview I came across: it begins at 3:25. Michael TomsPhilosophyRobert Nozick
Michael Oakeshott Association: Lisbon Final Programme
Hosted by Institute for Political Studies – Universidade Católica Portuguesa classical liberalismConservatismMichael OakeshottPhilosophyPoetry
Bryan Magee
Guardian The Telegraph Bryan MageeKarl PopperPhilosophyRichard Wagner
Philosophy and Its Moods: Oakeshott on the Practice of Philosophy
In “Philosophy and Its Moods: Oakeshott on the Practice of Philosophy,” Kenneth McIntyre continues the discussion of Oakeshott’s conception of philosophy begun by Boucher but takes a somewhat different view. Though he admits that Oakeshott’s conception of philosophy as a fundamentally skeptical activity devoted to relentless interrogation of the conditions of human understanding remains unchanged…
Five Answers on Pragmatism
Susan Haack has just made this available. pragmatism is best thought of, not as requiring these or those articles of faith, but simply as a broad congeries of philosophical attitudes Charles Sanders PeirceEpistemologyJohn DeweyPhilosophypragmatismRichard Rortysusan haackTruthWilliam James
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