Just some food for thought. About a month ago David Brooks, in an opinion piece for the New York Times, offered some reflections on what he perceives as the burgeoning of a new cultural ethic of shame (as opposed to guilt). Thought I’d pass it along: “The Shame Culture.”
Category: Media
Jeremy Begbie on theology and the arts
In the following video, Jeremy Begbie, professor of theology at Duke Div School, discusses some of the capacities of the arts, in this case music, to communicate some illuminating theological truths. Begbie also happens to be a talented pianist. So if you’ve got thirteen minutes, he’s worth a listen.
A Song for Good Friday
A Song for Good Friday Luke 23:39-42, NIV (for context) One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!” But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are […]
For Palm Sunday
For Palm Sunday — 2016 Just a post to acknowledge that we’re entering Holy Week. For those with an interest in revisiting the old, old story, you can do so, in its four variations, HERE. And while we’re at it, let’s throw in a rendition of the classic Palm Sunday hymn All Glory, Laud and Honor as […]
Alva Noe on Consciousness
There’s an interesting conversation taking place at the interface between philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience. One of this conversation’s recurring talking points is the hypothesis of the “extended mind.” Some of the key concerns raised speak to whether the human mind is to be identified with the brain, whether the mind’s powers are analogous to the powers of computers, and what difference it might make to the philosophical and scientific study of the mind if greater consideration is paid to the mind’s character as “embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended.” Alva Noë is one proponent of “extended mind” research, and you can get some sense of the flavor of his contribution to the conversation in the following video.
More from Alva Noë:
- Action in Perception (Bradford, 2006)
- Out of our Heads: Why You are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciouness (Hill and Weng, 2010)
- Varieties of Presence (Harvard UnivPr, 2012)
For some further orienting to related discussions in Philosophy of Mind and Embodied Cognitive Science, consider the following for serviceable introductions:
- Joseph Schear, Ed., Mind, Reason, and Being in the World: The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate (Routledge, 2013)
- Lawrence Shapiro, Embodied Cognition (Routledge, 2012)
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