Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Saturday, October 03, 2026

Turns out I was worrying about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect

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Embed from Getty Images I suggested a couple of days ago that: Becoming very knowledgeable about a niche subject is worrying, because you f...
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Thursday, October 01, 2026

The death of Dennis O'Neill and expertise in a narrow subject

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Becoming very knowledgeable about a niche subject is worrying, because you find much that has been published about it is wrong. And then it ...
Sunday, September 20, 2026

Violet Bonham Carter and Mary Stocks remember the struggle for women's suffrage

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I thought I had finished blogging for today, but this video is too good not to share with you tonight. It's a BBC2 discussion from 1968 ...
Friday, August 14, 2026

A Canterbury Tale, Richard Rorty and Stanley Kubrick

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Guy Stagg understands A Canterbury Tale : A Canterbury Tale suggests that love of country does not mean some romanticised retreat into the ...
Friday, July 24, 2026

George Orwell on the style and quality of C.S. Lewis's arguments

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When I wrote about the philosopher C.E.M. Joad last month, a comment suggested I read one of George Orwell's 'As I Please' colu...
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Saturday, July 11, 2026

The Joy of Six 1546

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Toby Buckle argues that it's time for liberals to throw John Rawls under the bus. In his philosophy he guided the creed toward neutrali...
Thursday, July 09, 2026

Gilbert Adair and when Jacques Derrida came to Loughborough

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Today I thought of the writer Gilbert Adair, looked up his Guardian obituary from 2011 and found this gem: He once told us on the arts desk...
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Thursday, July 02, 2026

Reg Calvert, Oliver Smedley, Hayek and the nature of liberty

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When Oliver Smedley shot Reg Calvert , more was at stake than a row over a radio transmitter. According to a 2011 blog post by Adam Curtis ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Professor Joad sees his play at the Theatre Royal, Northampton

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I braved the heat today, went into town and called at the market. I came a way with a book called Repertory at The Royal: Sixty-Five Years o...
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School uniform, boys in skirts and Marcuse's 'repressive tolerance'

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For years, just as the coming of the Christmas season is marked by the appearance of the first disappointing 'Santa's Magic Xmas Won...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Two snorts and a smile: A new study of James Bryce reviewed

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James Bryce was an academic who became a Liberal MP and then a diplomat – he served as Britain's ambassador in Washington from 1907 to 1...
Sunday, May 03, 2026

Karl Popper, Ludwig Wittgenstein and a wicked reggae beat

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I know what we need: a reggae song about the famous clash between Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein at Cambridge in 1946. The words are by...
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Saturday, April 25, 2026

The Joy of Six 1509

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"Orbán built a glittering façade of think tanks, conferences and podcasts on a brittle framework of prefab ideas and exorbitant contrac...
Thursday, April 09, 2026

The Joy of Six 1501

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Samira Shackle meets victims of successive governments that have sought to reduce immigration while insisting universities recruit more ove...
Sunday, April 05, 2026

Peter Clarke on T.H. Green and the working man

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Thomas Hill "T.H." Green Peter Clarke is the author or two books, Lancashire and the New Liberalism and Liberals and Social Democ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

The Joy of Six 1494

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"After months of rhetoric from Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves blaming newts and bats for supposedly blocking growth, it’s good to see t...
Sunday, March 22, 2026

In our Time on the philosophy of Karl Popper

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Long ago, I wrote the entry on Karl Popper for Duncan Brack and Malcolm Baines's Dictionary of Liberal Biography. The BBC Radio 4 In Our...
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Friday, March 20, 2026

The Joy of Six 1491

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Mariano delli Santi is concerned by the Information Commissioner's Office and its enthusiasm for age-verification: "The ICO are ac...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

On Liberty: New edition gives Harriet Taylor her due

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An edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to name Harriet Taylor Mill as co-author alongside John Stuart Mill, reports the ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

The Joy of Six 1487

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"On this occasion Starmer has taken both the correct and popular position and stuck to it despite relentless attacks from the right. Th...