Now available from Liberty Fund. Bargain! Hayek did publish all the works found in this volume, but they had never been gathered in a single work as he originally conceived. Editor Bruce Caldwell has provided translations where they were absent and has revised and corrected the text, and his introduction tells “the story of Hayek’s…
Liberty Press paperback release of 2010 Chicago hardcover edition. As with all Liberty Press books — a bargain! bruce caldwellFriedrich Hayekphilosophy of social sciencerationalismReasonScientism
This looks like it may well be a cracking read. I do appreciate Ken’s quality of mind as per his chat with the Gad Father. consciousnessevolutionary biologyEvolutionary PsychologyFree willgad saadKenneth MillerReasonreligion and science
The very excellent Martin Beckstein has a new paper out. Friedrich HayekKarl PopperLiberalismmartin becksteinMichael OakeshottrationalismrationalityReasonshilssocial epistemologysocial ontologyTradition
It’s been a while (20 or so years) since I’ve heard from Piers Benn. (I think he used to be at Imperial College Medical School). It was Bob Grant who first pointed me in the direction of this fine mind. Great to see Piers joining the fray in Quillette Magazine, pretty much the go-to publication for…
Coming soon. bruce caldwellconstructivismFriedrich HayekLiberalismphilosophy of social sciencerationalityReason
Pinker’s forthcoming bestseller which I’m expecting Taleb to eventually rip into. Despite Pinker ostensibly being a classical liberal his implicit progressivist ebullience is suspect. Epistemic humility is not seen as a cultural virtue: it is the zeitgeist of the modern age that we exist in a (misperceived) linear trajectory of progress, progress here taken to be…
Neven Sesardic‘s recent book has really set tongues a wagging (to put it mildly), a book that is freely available here. Below one can hear Nevan talk on the topic. The discussion is all very disconcerting as Joseph Bottum points out in his review. History of PhilosophyJoseph BottumMartin HeideggerNeven SesardicPhilosophyPoliticsReasonregressive left
Leopardi is quite possibly my favourite poet, this despite my reading him in English and being aware that quite a bit must be getting lost. Anyway, David Bentley Hart reviews Zibaldone published a few years back pointing out in his review Leopardi’s paradoxical cast of mind as does the always insightful John Gray (second and third quotes) He had a particular…
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. (Commemorating the birth of the greatest moral psychologist of all). David HumeMoral psychologypassionReason
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