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June 2, 2023philosophy of science

William Newton-Smith

I’ve belatedly learned of Bill’s passing. Kathy WilkesRoger Scrutonwilliam newton-smith

December 30, 2022kathy wilkes

Memories of Dubrovnik’s Global Citizen—Kathy Wilkes

This article as per the title freely available from this special issue of the Croatian Journal of Philosophy Vol. XXII, No. 66, 2022. Roger Scruton, in his England: an Elegy took her as his model of the English gentleman, arguing that “her virtues were revealed in nothing so much, as her habit of concealing them”.…

December 14, 2022michael oakeshott

Art and Politics in Roger Scruton’s Conservative Philosophy

Publisher page aestheticsConservatismFerenc HörcherMichael OakeshottPolitical philosophyRoger Scruton

April 28, 2022kathy wilkes

The Kathy Wilkes Memorial Conference

Beginning this year (tomorrow), The Herbert Simon Society (Turin), IUC Dubrovnik, and St. Hilda’s College Oxford are putting on an annual conference to honour Kathy Wilkes. The conference deals with the impact of the cognitive sciences on the social, political and economic sciences. For online attendance details, contact Giovanni De Rosa. It was through Roger…

February 27, 2021roger scruton

Roger Scruton’s Wagner

To mark the birth of Roger here is an article on his aesthetics, to my mind the most abiding dimension to Roger’s philosophical legacy, something many commentators (perhaps willfully) pass over: Inscrutable Wagner: Roger Scruton’s appreciation of Richard Wagner will remain an important and inexhaustible part of his legacy Roger assessed Tristan as fundamentally religious in its…