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Intimation
In the past, I have dubbed the type of representation through modal ellipsis, that we saw in the coffee cup scene from Robert Bresson’s L’argent, ‘intimation’. The point about intimation is that it...
View ArticleGut feelings and philosophy
Common sense intuitions, gut feelings form our tacit theories. They are based on generations of thinking and float about in a culture. To be provoked to explicitly state your tacit assumptions, is a...
View ArticlePresent-day Practical Philosophy
The website devoted to next year’s philosophy course HUM 243 Present-day Practical Philosophy. Aesthetics and Ethics will largely conform to the one describing last year’s edition, which can be found...
View ArticleNarratives’ life lessons
One of the moral values of art appreciation (according to Eaton) is that it teaches us about narrative coherence, but: Is a human life coherent? When would one say of a human life that it is...
View ArticleIs sentimentality a moral flaw or not?
It is one thing to identify the meaning of the locution ‘is sentimental’ (i.e. to provide a definition of the term), but quite another to establish whether in some particular case someone or something...
View ArticleFirst sentence of Kant’s Critique of Judgement.
The first sentence of the Critique of Judgement contains a puzzling reference to “relating a representation (in your mind) to your feeling”. How does one do that? Can we hold it up in our minds and...
View ArticleAesthetic or ethical dilemmas
The challenge seems to be: to find the proper formulation of some set of alternatives so that it becomes clear that a dilemma is at stake. Von Hagens’ plastinates Urvashi didn’t perceive a dilemma in...
View ArticlePlato and Aristotle on high and low
We presently tend to object to Plato’s critique of art (the art of Homer and Hesiod), that they address and invoke emotions rather than providing us with true knowledge about the world. We object to...
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