Michael Oakeshott

Person · Open Library

Works

44

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1958-08-29

Active to

2009-06-25

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2

Total plays

2

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2

   · 2014 · cited 88,540x

2. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 48,841x

3. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

   · 1976 · cited 44,835x

4. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,600x

5. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

   · 1983 · cited 39,556x

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Quotes

• “Whatever is satisfactory in experience is true, and it is true because it is satisfactory.”
• “Experience to be experience must be reality; truth to be true must be true of reality. Experience, truth and reality are inseparable.”
• “By one road or another, by conviction, by its supposed inevitability, by its alleged success, or even quite unreflectively, almost all politics today have become Rationalist or near-Rationalist.”
• “By a pardonable abridgment of history, the Rationalist character may be seen springing from the exaggeration of Bacon's hopes and the neglect of the scepticism of Descartes; modern Rationalism is what commonplace minds made out of the inspiration of men of discrimination and genius.”
• “Rationalist politics, I have said, are the politics of the felt need, the felt need not qualified by a genuine, concrete knowledge of the permanent interests and direction of movement of a society, but interpreted by 'reason' and satisfied according to the technique of an ideology: they are the politics of the book.”
• “Rationalism in politics, as I have interpreted it, involves an identifiable error, a misconception with regard to the nature of human knowledge, which amounts to a corruption of the mind. And consequently it is without the power to correct its own short-comings; it has no homeopathic quality; you cannot escape its errors by becoming more sincerely or more profoundly rationalistic.”

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Key facts

Born

Michael Joseph Oakeshott , ( 1901-12-11 ) 11 December 1901, Chelsfield , Kent , England

Died

19 December 1990 (1990-12-19) (aged 89), Acton , England

Alma mater

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Era

20th-century philosophy

Region

Western philosophy British philosophy

School

British idealism Liberal conservatism

Institutions

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge London School of Economics

Main interests

History of philosophy Intellectual history History of political thought Philosophy of religion Philosophy of history Philosophy of politics

Notable ideas

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