ART & ORGANISM
A SEMINAR
Providing examples of topics that may be covered as we proceed. The exact offerings are determined by
● the basic course objectives (integration of ways of knowing the world at multiple levels of organization);
● specific interests of seminar participants;
● Emerging research and scholarship in constituent fields;
● specific interests of faculty and guest experts that may visit.
(notes from last year’s offerings are provided as clues about how discussions emerge and interconnect: Class notes from 2020)
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| January 26 | A&O (1) | ● CONNECTIONS! ● The art and science of art and science– how they co-constitute our cognitive universe ● what do WORDS really MEAN? ● MEANINGS are DEEPER than WORDS 2020 notes from meeting 1 | |
| February 2 | A&O (2) | ● DEEP ETHOLOGY, real animals in the real world ● EXISTENTIAL PHENOMENOLOGY real people in the real world Last year’s notes | |
| February 9 | A&O (3) | ● Balance ● Essential Tensions ● INDIVIDUATION and SOCIALIZATION● SENSATIONS, PERCEPTIONS, CONCEPTIONS Last year’s notes | |
| February 16 | A&O (4) | ● DEVELOPMENT, BIAS, and learning, The EVOLUTION and PHYSIOLOGY of ART; ● congenital and acquired bias: how WEIRD we are; The “body bias”–Meaning and the Body Last year’s notes | Possible guest appearance by teaching-learning scholar, Katherine Greenberg speaking to socio-cultural influences on the development of learning strategies. (Dr G is an internationally known expert on cultural influences on development of learning abilities) |
| February 23 | A&O (5) | ● NEEDS● CHANGE: the maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal;● STRESS Last year’s notes | |
| March 2 | A&O (6) | ● ART and SCIENCE and TRUTH;● when TRUTH is a LIE; ● SAPIENCE and SENTIENCE: “reasons” and “feelings” about ART. Check Last year’s notes | Possible guest appearance of philosopher, John Nolt, speaking to the aesthetics and mathematics (Dr N. is author of several books and a well known expert on logic and environmental ethics) |
| March 9 | A&O (7) | ● PLAUSIBLE STORIES,● TRUTH and BELIEF (correspondence and coherence) BRING EXAMPLES of ART Check Last year’s notes | |
| March 16 | A&O (8) | ● Play and the development of creativity; ● COMMUNICATIONS internal and external [heart-to-heart or meeting of minds?] Last year’s notes | Possible guest appearance by ethologist, Gordon Burghardt speaking to “play, art, and creativity) (Dr B. is an internationally known expert on reptile behavior and the ethology of play) |
| March 23 | A&O (9) | CAUSES and CONSEQUENCES, beginnings and endings. | |
| March 30 | A&O (10) | ● LEVELS of ORGANIZATION; layers of meaning, masks Last year’s notes | |
| April 6 | A&O (11) | ART and ARTIFACT: What can we know of the mind of the creative artist? does it matter? Last year’s notes | Possible guest appearance by anthropologist, Jan Simek , speaking to “art and artifact in paleolithic cultures.” (Dr S. is an internationally known expert on paleolithic European as well as Southeastern American cave art) |
| April 13 | A&O (12) | ● | |
| April 20 | A&O (13) | What can we know? how can we communicate? | |
| April 27 | A&O (14) | LAST MEETING; CLASSES END |