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SOPHIA aims to build communities of philosophical conversation, which can take the form of video or audio recordings, as well as interactions in writing. In addition, SOPHIA gathers and produces materials to be used for our events and publishes pieces that analyze or disseminate insights about our meetings and practices.

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Ways of Knowing in Nature

One-sheet for SOPHIA Conversations

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Here is the revised one-sheet document that we updated after using the original as guiding conversation starter to talk about “Ways of Knowing in Nature” in our July 2018 online SOPHIA symposium. This document was originally crafted by Drs. Andrea Christelle and Robin Weeks, who work together in Sedona Philosophy. The following is the content of the one-sheet document. You can also open and print a downloadable Adobe PDF version of this one-sheet here or by clicking on the Adobe Acrobat logo on this page.

 

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Ways of Knowing in Nature:

Dr. Andrea ChristelleThe Effects of Place on Knowledge & Intuition

By Dr. Andrea Christelle and Dr. Robin Weeks of SedonaPhilosophy.com

This conversation-starter is written as a follow-up to the one-sheet about “The Molemen and Plato’s Cave Today,” on Episode 1 of Philosophy Bakes Bread.

Dr. Robin Weeks.This topic is an invitation to explore what it means to know, and how the way we attend to the world affects both the way we know things as well as what we know.

Beautiful places inspire us. People often visit beautiful natural settings to experience a connection to the world and to spend time outdoors. Some people say they come to seek understanding, or to develop a deeper relationship with nature. In this conversation, we will explore how being in nature may affect not just what we know, but how we know, and how this knowledge is connected to science and intuition.

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Questions:

1) What do we mean by nature?

2) What does it mean to have a relationship to nature?

3) What is the difference between knowledge and intuition related to nature?

4) What are different ways of understanding and relating to the world when we are in less modified environments?

5) How does a greater connection with nature help us to know ourselves?

6) Is experiencing beauty a way of knowing, and if so, how does it differ from knowledge in the physical sciences?

7) What obligations does the public have to make beautiful environments accessible to all?

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071: Ep67 – Jane Addams and Democratic Activism

Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show & podcast

Dr. Marilyn Fischer.In this 67th episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio talk with Dr. Marilyn Fischer about “Jane Addams and Democratic Activism.” Dr. Fischer is a Professor Emerita at the University of Dayton where she specializes in political philosophy and American Pragmatism. She focuses especially on Jane Addams’s philosophy.

Jane Addams

Marilyn has a strong passion for interdisciplinary work. She is the author of several books, including Ethical Decision Making in Fundraising (2000), On Addams (2003), and in 2008, she released a co-edited volume titled Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy.

Listen for our “You Tell Me!” questions and for some jokes in one of our concluding segments, called “Philosophunnies.” Reach out to us on Facebook @PhilosophyBakesBread and on Twitter @PhilosophyBB; email us at philosophybakesbread@gmail.com; or call and record a voicemail that we play on the show, at 859.257.1849. Philosophy Bakes Bread is a production of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). Check us out online at PhilosophyBakesBread.com and check out SOPHIA at PhilosophersInAmerica.com.


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Notes

  1. Jane Addams, Nobel Prize.
  2. Thumbnail photo of some Sudio headphones.Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
  3. Sudio.com, a high quality headphone company, offers a 15% site-wide promotional discount if you use the code that we mention in the show (around minute 13 and a half).
  4. On mirror neurons, see Lea Winerman, “The Mind’s Mirror,” Monitor on Psychology 36, Issue 9 (October 2005).
  5. Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House (New York: Signet Classics, 1961).
  6. See the “Talk Tables” related to the English as a Second Language (ESOL) page for Dayton, Ohio.
  7. David S. Meyer, “The Parkland Teens Started Something. How Can It Become a Social Movement?” The Washington Post, April 13, 2018.

 

You Tell Me!

For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, Marilyn posed the following question in this episode:

“What do you think it means to be a citizen of a democracy in terms of responsibilities beyond voting?”

Let us know what you think! Via Twitter, Facebook, Email, or by commenting here below.

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Kneeling and Civil Protest

One-sheet for SOPHIA Conversations

Thumbnail photo of the One-Sheet document on Kneeling and Civil Protest.Recent protests calling attention to police brutality have taken the form of kneeling during the playing of the national anthem at football games and other sporting events. Episode 53 of Philosophy Bakes Bread, on “Kneeling and Civil Protest,” with Dr. Arnold Farr, focused on the criticisms and defenses of players for their protests, as well as the message that protesters have tried to convey. SOPHIA member and UKY graduate student James William Lincoln created a SOPHIA One-Sheet document about the episode for use in local or online discussions about the topic.

Football players kneeling in protest during the playing of the national anthem.

Dr. Arnold Farr.In July of 2018, Dr. Farr kindly joined leaders of the Lexington SOPHIA Chapter to hold a meeting testing out the one-sheet document that Lincoln created, and the meeting was a great success. We encourage other chapters to try out a meeting on the basis of this document. Those who wish can also listen to the radio and podcast episode on which the sheet was based. The idea behind the one-sheet, however, is that people don’t have to have heard the episode in order to join in a rich discussion about current and important matters for people to consider today. You can download a printable Adobe PDF version of the one-sheet document here, or by clicking on the image of the one-sheet above.

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Version 2 of the One-sheet in PDF. The original used in the meeting is here.

On Friday, July 20th of 2018 from 2-3:30pm US ET, SOPHIA will hold an online symposium on “Ways of Knowing in Nature: The Effects of Place on Knowledge & Intuition.” We will be using this one-sheet document for the conversation (Updated! and here’s the original).

 

 

Dr. Andrea Christelle.Our facilitators for this meeting will be Dr. Andrea Christelle and Dr. Robin Weeks of Sedona Philosophy in Sedona, AZ.

 

Dr. Robin Weeks.We will hold the meeting via Zoom Video Conferencing. Here are the instructions on how to join the conversation:

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, or mobile device: https://uky.zoom.us/j/163766546

Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): 16468769923,163766546# or 16699006833,163766546#

Or Telephone:
Dial:
+1 646 876 9923 (US Toll)
+1 669 900 6833 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 163 766 546
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/xYrOxhXB

Or Skype for Business (Lync):
SIP:163766546@lync.zoom.us

Date: July 20, 2018
Time: 02:00 - 3:30 p.m. US ET
Event: Ways of Knowing in Nature, a SOPHIA Online Symposium
Topic: Ways of Knowing in Nature
Sponsor: Sedona Philosophy
Venue: Zoom Video Conferencing Platform
Public: Public
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070: Ep66 – Disability and Popular Culture

Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show & podcast

In this 66th episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio had the pleasure to talk with self-taught philosopher John Altmann (a.k.a. Adrian Alba), who has been engaging in independent philosophical scholarship since 2010. We talk with John about “Disability and Popular Culture.”

John Altmann delivering his paper at the 2018 Public Philosophy Network Conference in Boulder, CO. Photo by Eric Thomas Weber, 2018.

John is a regular contributor to the Popular Culture and Philosophy book series. He is a member of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy. He is also a field editor for the Public Philosophy Journal. John is an active public thinker also in his writings on Facebook and Twitter, on the latter of which he is known as @Iron_Intellect. John published a powerful piece in The New York Times, called “I Don’t Want to Be Inspiring,” which was about disability and the ways in which people will often refer to persons with disabilities as being “so inspiring!”

Eric and Anthony both had the chance to meet John at the 2018 gathering of the Public Philosophy Network in Boulder, Colorado this past February, where John gave a powerful paper about the profession of philosophy, called “The Disabled Can Speak: Socratic Midwifery as a Means of Resisting Epistemic Violence.” In addition to that well received paper, John has also written for volumes such as Dracula and Philosophy, The European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Deadpool and Philosophy, Hippo Reads, and the Blog of the American Philosophical Association, where he wrote about Charlottesville.

Listen for our “You Tell Me!” questions and for some jokes in one of our concluding segments, called “Philosophunnies.” Reach out to us on Facebook @PhilosophyBakesBread and on Twitter @PhilosophyBB; email us at philosophybakesbread@gmail.com; or call and record a voicemail that we play on the show, at 859.257.1849. Philosophy Bakes Bread is a production of the Society of Philosophers in America (SOPHIA). Check us out online at PhilosophyBakesBread.com and check out SOPHIA at PhilosophersInAmerica.com.


(1 hr 8 mins)

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Notes

  1. The Public Philosophy Network.
  2. The Public Philosophy Journal.
  3. Joel Michael Reynolds.
  4. Shelley Lynn Tremain.
  5. Susan Wendell, “The Social Construction of Disability,” in The Rejected Body (New York: Routledge, 1996).
  6. Marta Russell and Ravi Malhotra, “Capitalism and Disability,” Social Register 38 (2002): 211-228.
  7. Roddy Slorach.
  8. The Americans with Disabilities Act, information at ADA.gov.
  9. George Yancy.
  10. Carol Hay, “Girlfriend, Mother, Professor?” The New York Times, January 25, 2016.
  11. Nicolas Michaud and Janelle Pötzsch, eds. Dracula and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court Press, 2015).
  12. Civil American, SOPHIA’s peer-reviewed online journal for general audiences.
  13. Colin McGinn, The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey through Twentieth Century Philosophy (New York: Harper Perennial, 2003).
  14. Anthony Cashio, “Liberating the Liberal Arts: Encouraging Philosophical Engagement Outside of the Classroom,” on our 2018 SOPHIA panel at the Public Philosophy Network conference in Boulder, CO.
  15. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (New York: Dover Publications, 1998).
  16. Nicolas Michaud and Jacob Thomas May, eds., Deadpool and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court Press, 2017).
  17. Richard Greene and Rachel Robison-Greene, eds., Mr. Robot and Philosophy: Beyond Good and Evil Corp (Chicago: Open Court Press, 2017).
  18. CarlSagan.com.
  19. We referenced Episode 65 of Philosophy Bakes Bread, on “Westworld and Philosophy.”
  20. Ariel Henley, “As A Woman With A Facial Disfigurement, This ‘Wonder Woman’ Villain Pisses Me Off,” Bustle.com, July 7, 2017. See also Henley’s “My face is disfigured. When I met the right guy, he didn’t even bring it up,” The Washington Post, September 28, 2016.
  21. Tommy Curry, mentioned in part in reference to the episodes he recorded on Philosophy Bakes Bread, including Episode 9 on “Studying Black Men,” and Episode 32 on “The Public Philosopher and the Gadfly.”
  22. Chris Lebron.
  23. Jamie Lombardi.
  24. Whitney Mutch.
  25. Gail Pohlhaus.
  26. Julie Piering, “Diogenes of Sinope,” The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

 

 

You Tell Me!

For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, John posed the following question in this episode:

“What does it mean to get representation (of groups/persons) right in a film or television show?”

Let us know what you think! Via Twitter, Facebook, Email, or by commenting here below.