Reclaiming Liberalism
About this ebook
—Stephen R. C. Hicks, Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University.
This collection redresses the conceptual hubris and illiteracy that has come to obscure the central presuppositions of classical liberalism - that is, the wresting of epistemic independence from overwhelming concentrations of power, monopolies and capricious zealotries, whether they be statist, religious or corporate in character.
About the author
David Hardwick is Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Paediatrics and was Special Advisor on Planning at the Faculty of Medicine at The University of British Columbia. He has also been Secretary and President of the International Academy of Pathology, the world’s oldest and largest pathology organization. Professor Hardwick is founding co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism series and is a prime mover behind the open access journal Cosmos + Taxis. Professor Hardwick also co-edited Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith.
Leslie Marsh is Senior Researcher with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of British Columbia. He is a prime mover behind the journals EPISTEME and Cosmos + Taxis and the Michael Oakeshott Association. He is founding co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism series and has written on social complexity, social epistemology, philosophical psychology, and the philosophy of literature—specializing in Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich Hayek, Adam Smith, Herbert Simon, Walker Percy and John Kennedy Toole.
