Philosophy
Marsh’s challenge: Oakeshott’s Self-Contradiction
Constructivism and Relativism in Oakeshott is possibly the most critical paper about Oakeshott’s thought published in recent years. As usually seems to be the case with Leslie Marsh’s writing, the paper is the product of much thought and reflection; he trialled a version at the 2003 MOA Conference, and it was finally published 2 years [...]
Marsh on Oakeshott and Ryle
Gilbert Ryle was one contemporary philosopher for whom Oakeshott had a good deal of respect; in his review of Ryle’s book The Concept of Mind he called the book “a piece of philosophical writing in the highest class” as well as a “classic” – which, in Oakeshott’s usage, must put the book in the same [...]
Ken Minogue on the Elusive Oakeshott
In The American Conservative, Kenneth Minogue has written about why Oakeshott can be understood as someone who was both a philosopher and a conservative, as distinct from a conservative philosopher.
Access Zygon’s Oakeshott Symposium for free
The Zygon Symposium on Oakeshott and Science is now free to access online.
Sadly, no in-page shortcuts. You must go to http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122210525/issue?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 and then scroll down the page to the section called “REFLECTING ON MICHAEL OAKESHOTT”.
Zygon Symposium on Oakeshott (Pay to View)
Leslie Marsh has edited a symposium on Oakeshott in the March 2009 issue of Zygon: the Journal of Religion and Science.
The issue is available online at Wiley InterScience, but unless you have access via an institutional subscription, you will have to pay to download the articles.
Contributors include:
Elizabeth Corey (Religion and the Mode of Practice)
Timothy Fuller
Byron [...]
EJPT Special Issue on Oakeshott
The European Journal of Political Theory has released a special issue devoted to Michael Oakeshott. Contributors include David Boucher, Efraim Podoksik and Glenn Worthington. Access is restricted, but single-article and 24-hour accounts are available for purchase.
Update (25 October 2006): This issue of the journal has now been released as a special free sample.
Update (1 January [...]
A paper from the 2004 Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Spain)
The Idealism of the Young Oakeshott, by Efraim Podoksik