Philosophy Bites: Cynthia Freeland on Portraits. This is a really great episode. Art history, portraiture, photography, self-representation, etc. One of the topics that came up was Roland Barthes’ book Camera Lucida, a short volume on photography written after his mother’s death. (See also his journal excerpts from the same time period.) Given the choice, Freeland would like David Hockney to do her own portrait.
Tag: philosophy
The general glut of information and opinion makes it disconcertingly easy to kid yourself about how well you understand a particular topic.
Schr??dinger’s cat found its way into a comic with five randomly generated endings. [via waxy]
This year’s question from edge.org: “What have you changed your mind about? Why?” Dozens of scientists, researchers, philosophers, writers, and thinkers respond.
Mark Larson 