Category Archives: Aesthetics

4th Annual VWBPE Conference

Posted on March 16, 2011 by

4th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference March 17-19, 2011 Second Life Title Digitally Preserving Spiritual & Cultural Heritage with Traditional Artists in Second Life Authors: Tonietta Walters, Jennifer Saxton Presenter: Xhyra Graf | Tonietta Walters Date Friday, … Continue reading →

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Turing Church Online Workshop

Posted on November 22, 2010 by

A day later than when I said I would post and succumbing to my general lack of time, I will just copy my google group post regarding the Turing Church Online Workshop: I think organization is needed because of my … Continue reading →

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Luke Robert Mason on Coding Consciousness: Transhuman Aesthetics in Performance, Teleplace, 17th November 2010 (via teleXLR8)

Posted on November 18, 2010 by

Missed this… too bad. It would have been a good thing for me to attend. Luke Robert Mason presented an artist’s work-in-progress talk in Teleplace on “Coding Consciousness: Transhuman Aesthetics in Performance” on Wednesday 17th November 2010 at 10.45 am … Continue reading →

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Nondual Free Harmony

Posted on June 7, 2010 by

Will be presenting this in a poster session at the Science and Nonduality conference in October Kantian Free Harmony as a Nondual State Extensible through Creative Expression of the Aesthetic Idea In Kantian Aesthetics, the concept of ‘Free Harmony’ of the … Continue reading →

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Some words…

Posted on September 21, 2009 by

So, in a sense I trained myself to read by recognising patterns and derived meaning from those patterns. That causes me to come upon the problem of how it possible for language to allow us to communicate while remaining intrinsically … Continue reading →

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Collingwood

Posted on February 4, 2007 by

2. Metaphilosophy 2.1 Philosophical distinctions and the overlap of classes Collingwood’s first mature work, An Essay on Philosophical Method (1933), is a substantial treatise in metaphilosophy which seeks to delineate the subject matter and method of philosophical analysis. Philosophy, according … Continue reading →

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Dewey

Posted on January 20, 2007 by

1. Introduction Dewey’s renewed influence was due in part to increased interest in various continental aestheticians. The similarities between Dewey and Merleau-Ponty are the most striking (Kestenbaum 1977), but he also shares certain features with Gadamer (Gilmour 1987, who also … Continue reading →

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Samma Sati

Posted on October 21, 2006 by

Chapter VI Right Mindfulness (Samma Sati)The Buddha says that the Dhamma, the ultimate truth of things, is directly visible, timeless, calling out to be approached and seen. He says further that it is always available to us, and that the … Continue reading →

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Break is over

Posted on September 3, 2006 by

Well, no more rest for the wicked. I’ve had enough of a break. Today marks the creation of the ‘to elaborate’ category.  As if all these categories didn’t need to be elaborated.  It may just be one specific task that … Continue reading →

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