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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
Bertrand Russell: Science and philosophy
My chum and Russell scholar par excellence has this piece in the TLS. As Wittgenstein sums up Russell’s insight, “Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity”. Something similar might be said of science as well. Analytic philosophyAndrew Irvinebertrand russellLiberalismphilosophical logicPhilosophyscience
Oakeshott: Philosophy, Poetry, and Conservatism
Today marks the deadline for submissions. ConservatismLiberalismMichael OakeshottPhilosophyPoetry
Tragic Sense Of Life
One doesn’t have to be Catholic, an existentialist, Spanish, nor indeed even a “believer” of any sort, to appreciate Miguel de Unamuno. One only needs an appreciation of a distinctive quality of mind — but that intellectual virtue, what with the prevailing lazy abridgments characteristic of ideologues, usually squawking the loudest — is in short supply…
