January 2012
1 post
Praxis is back for 2012
Please join us on January 25th to kick-off our first round of Praxis for 2012.
Christina Warne and Sage Warner will be presenting:
Embodied Objectivity: Confronting Epistemic Limitations Among Feminist Research Methodologies
November 2011
1 post
Taking a Break
Praxis will be taking a holiday break in November and December.
We plan to have our next salon this next January, as always, on the fourth Wednesday. We still have plenty of slots to fill next year and plenty of scheduling still to figure out, so we encourage all interested parties to submit their philosophical essays, artist portfolios, or joint proposals for Praxis 2012. Hope to see you all in...
October 2011
2 posts
Upcoming Salon:
October 26th
7pm - 830pm
Gina Altamura is this month’s philosopher
Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner is this month’s artist
September 2011
5 posts
From Darwin's M-Notebook
‘Plato…says in Phaedo that our ‘necessary ideas’ arise from the preexistence of the soul, are not derivable from experience.—read monkeys for preexistence.’ (Barrett et al 1987, 551)
Upcoming Salon:
September 28th:
Bob Fortner and Tim Combs present:
Natural Philosophy: Status and Implications of Science in 2011
Place. 6:30-9 p.m.
Bob Fortner on The Singularity →
Bob Fortner presenting at Research Club
Bob Fortner on Biohypersonics →
Bob Fortner presenting at Research Club
August 2011
2 posts
Why are there so many typos in a discussion of...
The subject is personally dear to me as a painter who strives for meaningful beauty in daily practice, and endlessly fascinating to many, but the frequency of what I will hope are typos in J.Brown’s 8/22 entry makes it sadly ironic…sure, we could and should have both beauty and intellectual rigor in more of our art, but it takes a lot more attention to detail to make it happen…
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In Defense of Beauty: The Guise and the Intangible...
By: J.Brown
The ability of the vibrant object to captivate the human psyche is undeniable. We can’t help but respond to the brilliance of the rose with its saturated reds against pail greens, the texture of the satin peddles, or sweet aromas of the iconic symbol, but why do exotic flora, stellar sceneries, delightful symphonies and well crafted object captivated the human mind? Is there anything...
July 2011
8 posts
1 tag
SEEMING
What follows is a link to the reading for Praxis Round Four next Wednesday, SEEMING AND SEAMLESSNESS: MARTIN HEIDEGGER AND THE MACHINE. Jason wishes to preface the reading with a short introduction:
What follows are the first two lectures of Martin Heidegger’s Bremen cycle, “Insight into That Which Is”, which was the philosopher’s first speaking engagement after the war,...
We Want To Hear From You
We are starting to round people up to write critiques and commentary for Praxis and, if you have been to one of our salons, we want to hear from you. There are no rules, except those you make for yourself - you can write about whatever you want, however you want, and you are welcome to write as much or as little as you want.
For more information, contact:
Blake Thompson
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June 2011
17 posts
Round Four (The Text)
LEARNING TO MAKE NOTHING: An essay on the occasion of MAKING NOTHING, a collaborative project by Alex Rauch and Victor Maldonado.
By Victor Maldonado
MAKING NOTHING: Paying lip service to nothing.
Making nothing was the thing to do in the 90’s. It was so Green to make nothing. You didn’t have to buy supplies; you didn’t have to buy into commercial relationships that compromised your personal...
May 2011
2 posts
Round Three (The Text)
WITTGENSTEIN’S FINITISM
A Rejection of Dummett’s Strict Finitist Interpretation
By L. Pippa Callanan
To Be Presented on May 25th
Introduction
The importance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work is widely accepted in philosophy, yet his philosophy of mathematics has only begun to receive the attention Wittgenstein thought it deserved. Indeed, his philosophy of mathematics remains widely unknown and...
April 2011
2 posts
ROUND TWO (THE TEXT)
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Nicholas Nash
Praxis Essay Submission
To Be Presented on April 27th
Freedom in Determinism: An Argument Against Reading Spinoza as a Hard Determinist
Many scholars within the contemporary free will debate commonly hold Benedict de...
March 2011
5 posts
Round One (The Text)
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On The Plurality of Worlds:
An Analysis of Thomas Kuhn’s Plurality-of-Phenomenal-Worlds Thesis
By Blake Thompson
Esoterica Philosophica
A Priori: Those things, which once known, are no longer held hostage by future...