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Monday, June 29, 2020

Montaigne, Epicurus, Seneca, teachers

John Dewey's aesthetic philosophy

John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and social reformer who developed theories that changed philosophical perspectives and contributed extensively to education, democracy, pragmatism, and the philosophy of logic, politics, and aesthetics in the first half of the twentieth-century.

Born in Burlington, Vermont, in 1859, Dewey graduated from the University of Vermont in 1879. Following his graduation Dewey taught for a few years until he concluded that teaching at primary and secondary schools did not suit him. He enrolled at Johns Hopkins University to study for his PhD. After teaching at the University of Michigan and then at the University of Chicago, Dewey finally settled at Columbia University.

Dewey contributed substantially to various philosophical and interdisciplinary fields throughout his life, including aesthetics. He was, along with historians Charles A. Beard and James Harvey Robinson, and economist Thorstein Veblen, one of the founders of The New School, a private research university in New York City founded in 1919. In 1899 he was elected president of the American Psychological Association.

The principle of aesthetic philosophy is linked with theories of beauty, and the philosophy of art. Dewey’s most well-known work on aesthetics is his book, Art as Experience (1934). This was originally a speech he delivered at the first William James Lecture at Harvard University in 1932. Art and aesthetics, Dewey suggested, are intertwined inextricably with the culture and surroundings in which they stand. Therefore, to understand art and its aesthetic value, it is necessary to look at it within life and the outside experiences in which the art exists. As aesthetic experience bears organic origins, Dewey argued in Art and Experience that aesthetic experience can be recognised in everyday experiences, events, and surroundings.

Dewey’s theory on aesthetics has been a point of reference across various disciplines, which include psychology, pragmatics, democracy, and education, as well as new media; examples of which include computer animations and virtual worlds. His work has also been an inspiration to figures such as A.C. Barnes, founder of the Barnes Foundation, an art museum and educational institution. Barnes’s ideas of art in life, and the massive art collection he eventually accumulated in Philadelphia, were somewhat inspired by Dewey’s aesthetic philosophy, and he attended a seminar by Dewey in 1918 at Columbia University. Likewise, Dewey’s philosophy on aesthetic art drew some inspiration from the collections at the Barnes Foundation.

Dewey led a successful career which established him as a great, revered figure of modern western philosophy, and his work is still relevant to this day. Dewey lived a long, fulfilling, and successful life and career until his death on 1 June 1952 from pneumonia, aged 92. OUP

Friday, June 26, 2020

Teaching kids philosophy



Monday, June 15, 2020

The Ghost of Existentialism - Existential Comics

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted"-? That's a non-sequitur...

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/346


Phil.Oliver@mtsu.edu
👣Solvitur ambulandove
💭Sapere aude

Sunday, June 14, 2020

Tweet from The Philosopher (@philosopher1923)

The Philosopher (@philosopher1923) tweeted at 3:26 PM on Sat, Jun 13, 2020: "Perhaps James’ philosophy of #freedom works only for those who genuinely can push against the forces that make them feel that life is not worth living." #power, #pragmatism & #freewill, in a review of @JohnKaag's 'Sick Souls, Healthy Minds' (@PrincetonUPress) by @RebeccaBuxton (https://twitter.com/philosopher1923/status/1271901655957532672?s=02) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download?s=13

Friday, June 12, 2020

Would you hire this man?

NYTimes: Why Does Trump Lie?

Why Does Trump Lie?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/opinion/trump-lies.html?referringSource=articleShare


Phil.Oliver@mtsu.edu
👣Solvitur ambulando
💭Sapere aude

How to see past your own perspective and find truth | Michael Patrick Lynch

https://youtu.be/HDjM5lw8OYo


Phil.Oliver@mtsu.edu
👣Solvitur ambulando
💭Sapere aude

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

PHIL 1030, Sections 10-12

PHIL 1030, Sections 10-12 (Dr. Oliver)


Posted Jun 10, 2020 12:01 PM to D2L
Welcome to my Fall 2020 sections of Philosophy 1030, Intro to Philosophy, which I prefer to call CoPhilosophy... after a statement by my favorite philosopher William James: "The pluralistic form takes for me a stronger hold on reality than any other philosophy I know of, being essentially a social philosophy, a philosophy of 'co'..."
More about what he and I mean by that, as the semester proceeds.
CoPhilosophy (CoPhi) / PHILOSOPHY 1030 (section #s 10, 11, 12) returns to MTSU August 24, 2020 as a remote course (that at least is the plan, as of June 2020).
We will NOT be meeting in our originally-assigned classrooms (#10 TTh 1 pm Peck Hall 300, #11 TTh 2:40 PH 300, #12 MW 12:40 BAS S305), but will conduct most of our interactions on the blogsite ("CoPhi") I've created specifically for the purpose (not D2L), supplemented by videos and recorded non-mandatory zoom sessions. Once you've all joined me as authors on the site, our virtual conversations can begin. Philosophy, whatever else it is, is indeed an open-ended conversation among ourselves, with the philosophers of the past, and anticipating those of the future.
REQUIRED TEXTS for Fall 2020:
You may procure these texts in book, ebook, and/or audiobook formats, whatever you think works best in promoting your own learning. Personally I think it's best to take new information in through every available portal.
You can reach me directly with questions at phil.oliver@mtsu.edu.
Stay well, talk with you soon.
jpo (Dr. Oliver)

Windows

Leibniz was mistaken, we do have windows. But if we don't keep them clean, we might as well be monads.

A philosophy of 'co'

Nigel Warburton

@philosophybites
Philosophy is still waiting for its Feynman or Dawkins…


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Please Nigel, the last thing philosophy needs is a culta personality. Why not strive for a number of competent philosophers contributing in their areas of competency, all benefiting philosophy.
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No gods, no masters or gurus. Just CoPhilosophers. "The pluralistic form takes for me a stronger hold on reality than any other philosophy I know of, being essentially a social philosophy, a philosophy of 'co'"-William James

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