Scientism and its Discontents
Here’s an open access book by the most excellent and always provocative Susan Haack. Charles Sanders PeirceconstructivismFriedrich HayeknaturalismPhilosophyquineregressive leftscienceScientismsusan haack
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EPISTEME: Volume 15 – Issue 1
Latest issue now available. EPISTEMEEpistemologyPhilosophysocial epistemology
Walker Percy Weekend ’18
Still on Percy I was very disappointed that I missed last year’s shindig! So check out this brief trailer and to keep apprised of the weekend’s emerging details, I suggest one signup here. Louisiananew orleansphilosophical literaturePhilosophyWalker PercyWalker Percy Weekend
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
But is it science?
Roger Scruton and Timothy Williamson discuss the relationship between philosophy and science, introduced by Tim Crane: But is it science? naturalismPhilosophyRoger ScrutonscienceScientismTim Cranetimothy williamson
Oakeshott’s Notebooks now in paperback
Yet more Oakeshottiana. Michael OakeshottPhilosophy
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
Can Philosophy Be Saved?
The deliciously scathing and independent-minded Susan Haack in Free Inquiry. “The cannibal among the missionaries” — love it! This the quality of mind that I want and admire whatever one’s political persuasion. AtheismCognitive sciencecoherentismEpistemologyidentity politicsnaturalismPhilosophypragmatismregressive leftscience and religionScientismsusan haack
2016 Episteme Conference
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Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Someone has uploaded a reissue of Bernard Williams’ classic book. [m]y conclusion is that the demands of the modern world on ethical thought are unprecedented, and the ideas of rationality embodied in most contemporary moral philosophy cannot meet them; but some extension of ancient thought, greatly modified, might be able to do so. Wanting philosophy…
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