It’s a Saturday, I’m travelling back from a conference in Sydney – enjoy!
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It’s a Saturday, and I’m out and about in the city – so enjoy a little philosophy, science and music for your weekend!
In partnership with UCL Neuroscience, an exploration of the human brain investigating imagination and creativity from multiple angles. Performers included neuroscientists, artists, musicians, philosophers and the Blind Summit Puppeteers. Throughout the evening, topics such as, ‘what makes us creative’, ‘is there such a thing as a creative ‘type’ and ‘can we learn to be creative’ were discussed.
It’s a Saturday – so here’s a documentary on the artist Henry Darger. What if your imagination was far better than reality – would you live your whole life there instead?
Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a custodian in Chicago, Illinois He has become famous for his posthumously-discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, along with several hundred drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story. Darger’s work has become one of the most celebrated examples of outsider art.
Today, to finish off Philosophy and books, I have a number of resources to check out:
Guardian Books podcast: Philosophical nonsense – the Guardian:
Two hundred years after the birth of Edward Lear, Michael Rosen celebrates his literary legacy, while we return to another classic of children’s philosophy, Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth.
New Books In Philosophy: New Books in Philosophy features peer-to-peer discussions with philosophers about their new ideas as expressed in their newly published books. The program is co-hosted by Carrie Figdor (University of Iowa) and Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University). Between the two of us, we will be exploring new books in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, philosophy of science, social and political philosophy, history of philosophy, philosophy of language, and many other subfields.
Philosophers in 90 Minutes - a pay-per-author series, with a number of subjects covered within authors.
Finally, some more Free Courses:
- Philosophy for Beginners – iTunes – Web Video – Marianne Talbot, Oxford
- Critical Reasoning for Beginners - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Web Video – Oxford
- A Romp through Ethics for Complete Beginners - iTunes Video–Web Video – Oxford
- Introduction to Political Philosophy – YouTube – iTunes – Web Video - Steven B. Smith, Yale
- The Art of Living - Web Video – Stanford
- The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps - Multiple Formats– Peter Adamson, King’s College London
It’s a Saturday, so I’m taking a break – in the meantime, this is a very interesting documentary on Philosophy and The Matrix:
It’s Saturday, so I’m taking a break – but I think you should check out the following poster:
It’s Saturday, so I’m taking a break – but I think you should check out designer Genis Carreras, who explores philosophy with beautiful simplicity with his Philographics project – it’s a series of posters each capturing a single philosophical ideology through simple geometric shapes.
“The only authentic knowledge is that which is based on sense, experience and positive verification. Scientific method is the best approach to uncovering the process by which both physical and human events occur.”
“Points of view have no absolute truth or validity, having only relative, subjective value according to differences in perception and consideration. Principles and ethics are regarded as applicable in only limited context.”
“Events within a given paradigm are bound by causality in such a way that any state of an object or event is determined by prior states. Every type of event, including human cognition (behaviour, decision, and action) is causally determined by previous events.”
“The ability of conscious agents to be free to make their own decisions, free of any social, moral or political constraints.”
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