Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • image/svg+xml Ello Ello

Daily Nous

Daily Nous

Primary Navigation

  • About
  • Comments Policy
  • Open, Live, Online Philosophy Events
  • Philosophy Comics
  • Value of Philosophy
  • Calls: Papers/Events/Grants/etc.
  • Non-Academic Hires
  • Supporters
  • Heap of Links
Home
Uncategorized

Does Utilitarianism Leave Room for Art?

By
Justin Weinberg
. March 21, 2014 at 6:52 am 0

A screenwriter considers the question.

Categories Uncategorized
Tags artutilitarianism
0 likes
Login
guest
guest
0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Paid Advertisements
Boston Review Philosophy Today

Recent Comments

Michel on Philosophers as Arts and Culture Critics

There's no escaping Danto but, like Bernard Williams, doesn't count, given the post's parameters, because he's dead.
Vivekka on The Reinstatement of an Undergraduate Philosophy Program

I fully agree, while the West has provided a lot of deconstruction and very astute reasoning on the nature of reality and human beings living […]
J. Edward Hackett on Article Spotlight: "The End of History" by Hanno Sauer

One of the many things here I can't help but wonder if Prof. Sauer should debate with me is exactly how often I hear a […]
Timothy Sommers on Article Spotlight: "The End of History" by Hanno Sauer

Also, when the author says, that people who go on about the historical sources of their view are "grandstand[ing] about their humanistic erudition,” like most […]
Joe on Article Spotlight: "The End of History" by Hanno Sauer

As I replied above, I didn't say anyone, myself included, is actually insulted. But yes, I agree, historians of philosophy are, as a kind, uniformly […]
Timothy Sommers on Article Spotlight: "The End of History" by Hanno Sauer

The first part is. I guess. Though it seems to me that arguments for reading certain things in philosophy courses must connect up, at some […]
JDRox on Article Spotlight: "The End of History" by Hanno Sauer

Ridiculous. It's G.E. Moore, Frege, Russell, Tarski, Wittgenstein, Quine, Kripke, and Lewis. It's embarrasing that someone so ignorant of history could have a job.
Martin Lenz on Article Spotlight: "The End of History" by Hanno Sauer

"The history of philosophy is our history, not some disconnected system of belief that developed on distant shores, and it has had a more-or-less direct
David Carl Wilson on Philosophers as Arts and Culture Critics

I have served as "staff philosopher" for a local theater company in St. Louis for several years. This has mostly amounted to writing an […]
JTD on Article Spotlight: "The End of History" by Hanno Sauer

It is also personal – insulting to all historians I don't work in the history of philosophy. However, as a philosopher I have, on several occasions, […]
JTD on Article Spotlight: "The End of History" by Hanno Sauer

This looks more like a defense of why we sometimes might want to use a historical text as a course reading. But isn't the argument
JTD on Philosophy's Happiness Literature: More of It, More Empirical (guest post)

Philosophers should tread with caution here. There are doubts about the quality of this body of research (see for example failed replications such as the […]

Subscribe

Archives

  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
Paid Advertisements
Paid Advertisements
Boston Review Philosophy Today

Heap of Links

  • “I am an American Philosopher” is a series of interviews (15, so far) with philosophers published by the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy -- here's one with Eric Mullis (Queens University of Charlotte), who brings together dance and philosophy
  • “I’ve always thought I was better at helping other people think through their ideas than I was at generating new or ground-breaking things of my own. I used to be ashamed of that, but now that I’ve got students of my own, it’s one of my favourite skills to use” -- Audrey Yap (Victoria) is interviewed at What Is It Like To Be A Philosopher?
  • “Too often, well-intentioned calls to ‘diversify the profession’ of academia seem to be motivated by brute desires for demographic representation…. That intelligence comes in many forms suggests a better rationale” -- Devin Sanchez Curry (West Virginia) on appreciating "Grandma's metaphysics"
  • Princeton has so big an endowment that it could, from now on, let in every student for free and still have at least $1.9 billion left over each year -- So why don't they? The author raises this question, but doesn't really try to answer it, and so doesn't seem to realize what's to be learned from it (via The Browser)
  • “The Mystery of Consciousness,” a live public philosophy discussion, took place this past summer in Liverpool -- featuring Philip Goff, Laura Gow, Anil Seth, Jack Symes, Rowan Williams, and a string quartet
  • “Gareth paced up and down and told me he was worrying about me a lot. I had to realise, he said, that I was extremely stupid and would need to work very hard to get any kind of degree. I wasn’t in the least offended” -- Lincoln Allison (Warwick) remembers Gareth Evans, who "made intellectual activity exhilarating"
  • When (and why) are some things best left to the imagination? -- Jennifer Church (Vassar) considers the question
  • “Young Plato,” a documentary about a headteacher in Belfast who brings philosophy into the teaching at his elementary school, will be screened in the United States -- it's "a very engaging film" according to The Guardian
  • “There has not been time to come up with the nuances on how [AI art generators] should be used, and large numbers of very different stakeholders have suddenly shown up at the artists’ door, kicking it in” -- Anders Sandberg (Oxford) on some of the issues AI art raises in moral, social, and political philosophy
  • “When a philosopher has misgivings about the value of philosophy, they’re not just asking ‘why,’ but ‘why why?,’ which is fancier” -- Helena de Bres (Wellesley) recovers her gratitude for philosophy
  • The Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (SERRC) launches a monthly podcast called “Knowledge for Breakfast” -- hosted by Fabien Medvecky (Otago) & Michiel van Oudheusden (KU Leuven), the first episode is on "Epistemic Shame and Imposter Syndrome"
  • You feel attraction to someone? Which of the 12,228 possible versions of this feeling? -- Maria Heim (Amherst) on how India’s "sophisticated traditions of philosophical reflection" explore "the nuances of felt experience with fine-grained particularity"
  • On “private and public sector jobs in a burgeoning ontological sector, involving the commercial and industrial applications of ontology across diverse industries” -- an interview with Barry Smith (Buffalo)
  • Philosophers on the tools of neuroscientific experimentation -- a discussion with contributions from Ann-Sophie Barwich, John Bickle, Dan Burnston, Carl Craver, and Valerie Hardcastle
  • “What is the main impediment to offline creativity? In short, not allowing one’s mind to be offline—rarely choosing, or having the chance, to be alone with one’s thoughts, and to let one’s mind wander” -- Peter Carruthers (Maryland) on a contemporary threat to creativity
  • “Schelling’s philosophy of oneness might provide a foundation on which to anchor the fight for our climate and our survival” -- historian Andrea Wulf thinks that Friedrich Schelling is just what the environmental movement needs (NYT)
  • Philosophy professor Robert Pinto (Windsor), who died in 2019, was “one of tens of thousands of residents in Canadian long-term care homes without a psychosis diagnosis that have been prescribed antipsychotics” -- some commentary from Shelley Tremain, who links to a CBC investigative report
  • “We have to get used to the idea that there may be agents around who are just as intelligent and capable and involved and… committed or reliable as humans and that we need to think about how they matter” -- Peter Railton (Michigan) is interviewed by Katrien Devolder (Oxford) about how we should understand and interact with AI
  • How “dialogically dense” are different works of philosophy? -- a machine learning algorithm can determine the extent to which an author mentions other persons, and Alexander Klein (McMaster) used it to compare the works of James and Dewey
  • “If we take Tolkien at his word and read LTR as a ‘true mythology’ of our own earth, then we will find that the text metamorphoses chillingly from a quaint otherworldly fantasy into a literal transcription of one of the most malignant ideologies of the past millennium: the racist ‘Aryan Myth'” -- a previously unpublished piece by the late Charles Mills (now unpaywalled)
  • “We must be mindful of the way scientific and political discourses are intertwined—and of the limitations of what science communication and popularization by itself can achieve” -- evidence suggests that anti-science attitudes among the public aren't owed to a lack of knowledge, but a lack of trust, write Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) and Silvia Ivani (Univ. College Dublin)
  • “If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.” But what about a dolphin? -- a professor of cognitive psychology, a neuroscientist, and a neurobiologist discuss dolphin language
  • Video interviews with philosophers, including Elizabeth Anderson, Elizabeth Barnes, David Boonin, and a dozen others --conducted by Simon Cushing (Univ. of Michigan - Flint)
  • Philosophy of vigilantism, moral ecologies, why we should annihilate our enemies, and more -- in the latest issue of the open-access Washington University Review of Philosophy, focused on war and violence
  • “The demand that philosophy be personally helpful… sounds wrongheaded to someone with the training of a mainstream contemporary philosopher” -- Helena de Bres (Wellesley) begins a series of essays on academic philosophy's relevance to life
  • How to read philosophy -- a guide you might consider sharing with students and others new to philosophy, by Charlie Huenemann (Utah State)
  • “We’ve got to resist this idea that the problem can be identified as some set of students or some particular ideology” -- Teresa Bejan (Oxford), Agnes Bolinska (South Carolina), Janice Chik (Ave Maria), Francisco Gallegos (Wake Forest) and others are interviewed about a program on "teaching civil discourse"
  • “I’m skeptical… that the dying have good advice for the living. We seem to have, at best, pretty empty advice that you’ve seen elsewhere already. At worst, it’s actively bad advice for anyone who isn’t dying soon” -- Jesse S. Summers (Duke) on what he has learned from having cancer
  • Meta-analysis finds that trigger warnings, contra both their advocates and detractors, have almost no effect -- results indicate they have "no effect on affective responses to negative material nor on educational outcomes" and "no effect on engagement with material, or... increase engagement with negative material under specific circumstances"
  • Crows are not black -- reflections from Hannah Kim (Macalester) on a 200-year old passage from Park Jiwon that, focusing on what happens to be philosophers' go-to example for induction, touches on human inattention, stereotyping, color perception, language, and learnedness

∙   2021 ©Daily Nous   ∙

wpDiscuz
0
0
Discussion welcome. Click to comment.x
()
x
| Reply