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11 years ago @ http://www.personal.ps... - Putting the Liberal Ar... · 0 replies · +1 points

I appreciate the shift emphasis away from merely knowing (and all too often forgetting after the exam) about to focusing on knowing by doing (cultivating habits) but think that it would be important to directly engage some of the developing research on cognitive-biases ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_bi... ) and perhaps a bit of cross-disciplinary work along these lines with folks in the social sciences and education may be in order?

11 years ago @ Socratic Politics in D... - Digital Dialogue 59: A... · 0 replies · +1 points

how does valorizing these aspects of animality in human-being(s) in general diminish racial minorities? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEnERpYVaho

11 years ago @ Socratic Politics in D... - Digital Dialogue 58: L... · 1 reply · +1 points

hmm, sounds reminiscent of certain strains of biblical hermeneutics, perhaps we need a phenomenology of reading to flesh out such suggestions of how texts (or their ethoi, spirits?) hold readers accountable.

11 years ago @ Socratic Politics in D... - Digital Dialogue 58: L... · 3 replies · +3 points

the qualities of readership/interpretation that get recommended, and then performed, in this conversation are attractive to this reader but I'm with Stanley Fish and others that such an ethos cannot be necessitated/author-ized by the text itself but rather comes from the social arrangements/interests of particular readers.

11 years ago @ Socratic Politics in D... - Digital Dialogue 56: G... · 0 replies · +1 points

it's truly my pleasure, a turning point away from the academy for me followed the initial pleasures of making connections in a paper (on the uncanny in Freud &Heidegger) that in second reading seemed stillborn, not because the ideas were wrong but because the connections in the text weren't really leaping off the page into the public sphere, but now in this e-age such connections can have more direct, and more fruitful, impacts by bringing people/thinkers into actual conversations, now how to widen the circle even more beyond the academy?
hopefully the coverage of this @newapps and the others who reblogged it will help some.

11 years ago @ Socratic Politics in D... - Digital Dialogue 56: G... · 0 replies · +2 points

looking forward to this and the video is a nice addition, still a bit of the shock of the new to have aspects of conversations/connections in my head materialize in these ways thanks to your fine efforts.

11 years ago @ Socratic Politics in D... - The Book as Ecosystem ... · 1 reply · +2 points

congrats on the new book and looking forward to seeing how this venture might widen the public square.

12 years ago @ Socratic Politics in D... - Digital Dialogue 53: P... · 0 replies · +1 points

[youtube prpDpSiCzU0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prpDpSiCzU0&feature=related youtube]

12 years ago @ Socratic Politics in D... - Digital Dialogue 53: P... · 1 reply · +1 points

I liked your contrast between being caught up in the 'game' at hand (think Wittgenstein) and being "animated by a principal" which reminds me of John Caputo's sense of being-called (he would say messianic) but this is an idea that needs much more fleshing out, I tend to talk of it in terms of overcoming the tyranny of the means.

12 years ago @ Socratic Politics in D... - Digital Dialogue 53: P... · 0 replies · +1 points

there seem to be some similar themes in the new Dreyfus/SDKelly book All Things Shining of the role of inspiration, vicarious experiences (spectating/fans/reading/etc) and the relationship of expertise to Quality.
I wonder if we couldn't also tie in your work on Justice and response-abilities, which was a part of the ATS book that many found lacking (questions about sorting just en-theos from potentially fascistic en-theos)? Of course recent tragic events at your school raise also some serious worries about such matters, and perhaps suggest that Rorty was right to question whether "experience" can the measure of public justice/rightness.
ps the new player is great, thanks

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