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Art and Truth after Plato // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University ... - 4 views

  • The purpose of this book, we are told right at the start, is to address anew 'the old question, often neglected in contemporary aesthetic debates, about art and truth, or art and cognition' (p. 1)
  • His purpose is to survey these varied responses, trace their development and adjudicate among them
  • very widely, and considers many writers who get scant attention nowadays
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  • His opening chapter sets out Plato's contentions about art and truth
    • Chris Long
       
      Summary points here seem fair.
  • In any event, though the chapter on 'Christian Platonic and Anti-Platonic Art' is not noticeably shorter than the others, it does not have a key role in the philosophical trajectory that Rockmore is tracing.
    • Chris Long
       
      Critical comment, but fairly stated, not harsh, matter of fact.
  • very widely, and considers many writers who get scant attention nowadays
    • Chris Long
       
      Not clear if these are positive or negative points, but the focus on those who receive scant attention point seems positive.
    • Chris Long
       
      Identifies aims - good, but relies on direct quotation - bad.
  • rather long and unusual excursion through Marxist aesthetics.
    • Chris Long
       
      There is implicit judgement here, and no imagination about why Rockmore might be taking this approach. More generosity needed here.
  • This is a hugely ambitious book, and the range of reading that has gone into its making cannot but be impressive, though the steady flow of many lengthy summaries and brief references to a huge number of writers makes for rather heavy going on the part of the reader.
    • Chris Long
       
      Praise, tempered by a sort of critique here. As if a simply positive remark can't stand on its own. Also, the vocabulary is one of coercion "cannot but be impressive."
  • more importantly flawed, and in a number of critical ways
    • Chris Long
       
      OK, but is this the best way to say this?
  • No real evidence is offered of this neglect, and indeed the book is remarkable for making virtually no reference to contemporary work in aesthetics.
    • Chris Long
       
      Fair point about references, but fine. Then belittling language "even the briefest survey would show..." - shame tactic.
  • Rockmore might object
    • Chris Long
       
      Indication that the reviewer is imagining his way into the mind of the author - imagine a response. Good.
  • Viewed in this light, however, it does not come out very well.
    • Chris Long
       
      So simple positive comments are avoided, but simple negative ones are not. Then ...  "conspicuous failures."
  • (to my mind)
    • Chris Long
       
      Recognizes own position might be limited.
  • serious methodological weaknesses that undermine some of its claims.
    • Chris Long
       
      Negative comment, not nasty, but not nicely put.
  • what most people recognize to be a caricature
    • Chris Long
       
      Appeal to "most people" is a failure to take ownership of own critique.
  • It is no pleasure to give a serious and substantial philosophical work such a low rating. So on the positive side I think it can safely be said that readers will undoubtedly benefit from Rockmore's range of reference.
    • Chris Long
       
      Begrudging critique, but limited praise.
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Community and Communication | Kris Klotz - 1 views

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  • Dewey’s task, then, was to articulate the means by which the public can discover and identify itself, “so that genuinely shared interest in the consequences of interdependent activities may inform desire and effort and thereby direct action.”
  • Communication of the results of social inquiry is the same thing as the formation of public opinion.
    • Chris Long
       
      Here I wonder if we can link to Habermas and the movement from Leserwelt to public.
  • freedom from government-sanctioned doctrinal constraints; and freedom to pursue the truth wherever it might lead in making a contribution to the world of learning.
    • Chris Long
       
      Refer to this in my section on Kant as not giving up his private rights in writing on the enlightenment.
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  • While Dewey agrees with Lippmann
    • Chris Long
       
      I'd like to hear more about the Lippmann argument here. Just a few sentences.
  • In this case, philosophers must be considered not as faculty members but as fellow citizens
  • If so, how does a philosophical community balance the opportunities for communication made possible by growing interest in the digital humanities with the need for active local communities?
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Do 'the Risky Thing' in Digital Humanities - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 2 views

  • "Make sure that someone's got your back, but do the risky thing."
  • Sidonie Smith, is leading an investigation of future forms of the dissertation, and whose Committee on Information Technology is working on issues surrounding the review of digital scholarship for tenure and promotion.
  • Real innovation requires risk
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  • Getting her work out of the pile is helped enormously by having done something more than what was expected
  • You must support her in doing the risky thing. Insist that she defend her experimental work, and then, in turn, defend her choice to anyone who doesn't understand her deviation from the road ordinarily traveled.
  • Scholars doing digital work require kinds of support that many more traditionally oriented humanists do not: access to technical resources for both their teaching and scholarship, as well as help maintaining those resources.
  • we run the risk of breaking the innovative spirit that we've hoped to bring to our departments
  • And where that spirit isn't broken, untenured digital scholars run the risk of burnout from having to produce twice as much—traditional scholarship and digital projects—as their counterparts do
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