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Oakeshott Association Conference Programme
Here is the programme for the MOA meeting at Colorado College.
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Review of Franco-Marsh Companion
Review essay of A Companion to Michael Oakeshott CONVERSATIONS WITH MICHAEL OAKESHOTT – AN INTERLUDE TO OAKESHOTT SCHOLARSHIP by Suvi Soininen Redescriptions: yearbook of political thought, conceptual...
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Philanthropic Institutional Design and the Welfare State
Here is the abstract to David’s and my paper just published in Conversations on Philanthropy, Vol. IX: Law and Philanthropy The topic of philanthropy has a great deal of philosophical interest because...
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An Oakeshottian “intimation” of Gay Rights
With the Michael Oakeshott Association conference in a few days my thoughts turned to my late chum Ken Minogue. I haven’t had time to write up my recollections of Ken (but I will get to it). Anyway, I...
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Erasing the Invisible Hand
I’m just about finished reading this unrelenting and fine-grained assault on the concept of the invisible hand. This is one of the most remarkable pieces of scholarship I’ve read in many years whatever...
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Hayek in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
It’s about time that Hayek had a dedicated entry in the SEP. I’ve been “lobbying” for FAH’s inclusion for some time now. Here is the stated brief of the article: This essay concentrates on this...
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Ignatieff speaks with Isaiah Berlin
Listening to this interview one must surely reevaluate one’s impression of Berlin (I did view this program back in the day but it left me unmoved). Was Oakeshott being scathing (as is often assumed) in...
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Nozick’s last interview?
Julian Sanchez interviews the great man. And in the spring, I’m giving a course jointly with a professor in the Slavic Languages department on Dostoyevsky and his philosophical ideas, and the...
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Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science
Here’s an interesting paper co-authored by Jonathan Haidt. Also, here is a good accompanying article in The New Yorker. The problem though with all the discussion is that the terms “conservative” and...
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James Kurth and the Fate of Western Civilization
My chum Corey Abel’s usual elegance and eloquence. Kurth, by the way, is one of the great performers. Here is a free author’s copy. Socrates pointed out that self-satisfaction is the death of...
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A Danse Macabre of Wants and Satisfactions: Hayek, Oakeshott, Liberty, and...
Just published in Austrian Economic Perspectives on Individualism and Society: Moving Beyond Methodological Individualism
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On Milton Friedman’s Criticism of Libertarian Intolerance
From the very excellent Eric Schliesser.
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Conservatism, Epistemology, Risk and Mind
Reassuring that Oakeshott is finding currency well beyond political circles. Also, here is a talk on Oakeshott by well-known Oakeshottian Jesse Norman.
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Friendship in Commercial Society Revisited: Adam Smith on Commercial Friendship
Intro from Spiros Tegos’ chapter. Friendship is a rather unusual topic for Adam Smith scholars given the emphasis that the concept of sympathy has received in the field of Scottish Enlightenment...
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Constructivism and Relativism in Oakeshott
This paper highlights a troubling tension within the philosophy of Michael Oakeshott. The relativistic stance that informs his radical constructivism gives license to socio-political conclusions we...
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Ryle and Oakeshott on the “Knowing-How/Knowing-That” Distinction
According to Robert Grant, Oakeshott only ever communicated with two “official” philosophers, one of which was Ryle: Oakeshott warmly introduced Ryle, who delivered the annual August Comte Memorial...
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On Human Conduct
It’s been 40 years since one of Oakeshott’s masterpieces, On Human Conduct, was published. Despite being an “old man’s” book, dense and highly qualified, it contains some of the most melliflous writing...
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Philosophy of markets
The very excellent Lisa Herzog interviewed here. H/T to Eric Schliesser. The cliché is that Smith is a “negative liberty” guy and Hegel a “positive liberty” guy. In fact, both have...
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