Whose Anarchy is it Anyway?

The Problems in Iraq, seen from the perspective of three of the great seventeenth century Theories of Anarchy and Statecraft; when the former was more common and the latter more perilous. The Thesis being that America and the UK went to Iraq expecting Locke to be right, and found to their horror that the truth was more Hobbesian; and when what they needed to hope for (and aim at) was ultimately Spinozian.

Oddity or Odyssey?

The aim of this talk is to return to Hume’s identification of Ego with External Possessions, and to demonstrate not only why this theory matters so much in the modern world, but also why our reliance of more anodyne psychological theories is impoverishing by comparison.

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