Philosophers have long disagreed about whether poetry, drama, and other literary arts are important to philosophy; and among those who believe that they are important, explanations of that importance have differed greatly. This paper aims to explain and illustrate some of the reasons why Hume found literature to be an important topic for philosophy and philosophers. Philosophy, he holds, can he...

A new scheme for painterly rendering (NPR) has been developed. This scheme is based on visual perception, in particular the multi-scale line/edge representation in the visual cortex. The Amateur Painter (TAP) is the user interface on top of the rendering scheme. It allows to (semi)automatically create paintings from photographs, with different types of brush strokes and colour manipulations. In...

Dr. Eric M. Meslin is Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Professor of Medicine, and of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the Indiana University School of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts. He is also Assistant Dean for Bioethics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Meslin received his B.A. in Philosophy from York University (T...

Abstract In this paper I distinguish between illustrative and performative uses of artworks in the teaching communication philosophy, drawing examples from history art my own practice. The former are where works used merely to illustrate communicate a philosophical idea or argument, latter artist teacher philosophizes through creation art. hope promote future collaboration philosophers, histori...

in the context of comparative and intercultural philosophy the approach and engagement of one philosopher with another, is a very basic issue. with regard to this, i want to narrate farabi’s special engagement with the meno and gorgias dialogues of plato. his engagement can be named hermeneutic dialectical reading-here hermeneutic means the relation of farabi with the meno and gorgias texts and...

by its academic-aristocratic approach at the beginning, and the mere artistic vision of art afterwards, beaux arts had become the cottage of hopes and dreams for art-lovers and artists from iran and all around the world. accordingly, iran, like many other countries, has had consecutive associations and interactions with these schools, especially beaux-arts school, in qualitative and quantitativ...

by its academic-aristocratic approach at the beginning, and the mere artistic vision of art afterwards, beaux arts had become the cottage of hopes and dreams for art-lovers and artists from iran and all around the world. accordingly, iran, like many other countries, has had consecutive associations and interactions with these schools, especially beaux-arts school, in qualitative and quantitativ...

Nulty, Timothy J. 2017. ‘Gong and Fa in Chinese Martial Arts’, Martial Arts Studies 3, 51-64. Phenomenology, embodiment, Merleau-Ponty, taijiquan, skill, technique, martial arts 10.18573/j.2016.10064 The distinction between gong (skill) and fa (technique) is ubiquitous in Chinese martial arts. Utilizing Maurice MerleauPonty’s notion of ‘embodied intentionality’, I examine this distinction. I dr...