2003 Conference (Colorado)

The 2003 MOA Conference was held at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colarado, September 25-28, 2003.

Josiah Lee Auspitz, Sabre Foundation, Modality Writ Small
Jesse Norman, University College, London, The Other Modality of Maths, or the Case of the Missing Mode
Robert Goodman, University of Haifa, The Immediacy of Experience and the Integrity of Modes in the Work of Michael Oakeshott
Frank Palmer Purcell, New York, Ideas and Consequences: Michael Oakeshott and American Philosophy

W. John Coats, Connecticut College, Michael Oakeshott and the Poetic Character of Human Activity
John Christian Larsen, University of California, Oakeshott’s Skepticism and the Skeptical Traditions
Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, Politics Without Rationalism in an Age of Experts

Noel Malcolm, All Souls College, Oxford, Oakeshott and Hobbes
Douglas Den Uyl, Liberty Fund, Spinoza and Oakeshott
Patrick Riley, Universities of Wisconsin and Bologna, Oakeshott on Hobbes’s Theory of the Will

Corey Abel, Denver, Colorado, Oakeshott, Eliot, Beauty, Tradition
Debra Candreva, Wellesley College, The Supposed Purpose of Poetry: Oakeshott’s Defense of a Pointless Activity
Elizabeth Corey, Baylor University, Poetry and Transcendence in Oakeshott

Todd Breyfogle, University of Denver, Rationalism in Religion: Michael Oakeshott’s Unspoken Critique of Religion
Michael Jones, University of Chicago, Unprotected by the Illusion of Affairs
Matthias Riedl, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, A Somber View of the Human Situation: Michael Oakeshott and Saint Augustine
Mark Shiffman, Villanova University, Religion, Liberal Education and the Human Vocation in Oakeshott

Nicholas Capaldi, Loyola University, New Orleans, Rule of Law, Politics, and Economics: An Oakeshottian Perspective
Richard Friedman, SUNY-Buffalo, Michael Oakeshott and the Elusive Identity of the Rule of Law
Russell Hittinger, University of Tulsa, Higher law, lower laws, and the Rule of Law

Paul Franco, Bowdoin College, Oakeshott’s Relationship to Hegel
George Feaver, Universtiy of British Columbia, Politics, Popular Government
and Regimes of Liberty: Michael Oakeshott on Representative Democracy
Nick Rengger, St. Andrews University, Remaining unspotted from the world:
the Skeptical Sensibilities of George Santayana and Michael Oakeshott
(in absentia)
Massimo Iiritano, Università di Siena-Arezzo, Italy, Oakeshott,
Collingwood and Personal Idealism (in absentia)

David Boucher, Cardiff University, Oakeshott, Republicanism and the Rule of Law
Jacob Segal, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Freedom and Normalization: Poststructuralism and the Liberalism of Michael Oakeshott
John Kekes, State University of New York, The Politics of Fairy Tales
Gerhard Wolmarans, University of Pretoria, South Africa, Michael Oakeshott’s Characterisation of Politics in an African Context

Martyn Thompson, Tulane University, The Voice of History in Human Affairs
Gordon Schochet, Rutgers University, Oakeshott’s History of the Modern European State (in absentia)
Eric Kos, University of Michigan, Platonic Themes in Oakeshott’s Understanding of the Modern European State

Eric McDaniel, George Mason Universtiy, Oakeshott and Wittgenstein on Rules and Practices
Leslie Marsh, University of Sussex, Coherentism and Relativism in the Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott
Attila Karoly Molnár, Eötvös University, Budapest, In Defence of Practice: Oakeshott Reads Michael Polányi
Gene Callaghan, Ludwig Von Mises Institute, Oakeshott and Mises on Understanding Human Action

Aryeh Botwinick, Temple University, Reconceptualizing Oakeshott’s Philosophy of Religion in the Light of a Re-envisioning of his Metaphysics