Philosophy, Art and Critique: A (short) conversation with the “other”

The Art of Conversation∗

We examine the strategic interaction between an informed expert and an uninformed decision maker, extending the analysis of Crawford and Sobel (1982). We modify their model to allow for more extensive communication between the two parties and show that face-to-face communication between the expert and the uninformed decision maker followed by a written report from the expert leads to improved i...

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ The Art Economics of Art: A Look at Contemporary Art Economics; Markets, Strategies, and the Star-making Systems, Marzieh Eftekhari

That Philosophy as Epistemological-Based is Not Debased: A Critique of Post-Modernist/Hermeneutic Critique of Traditional Philosophy

Over the centuries, beginning with the classic Greeks through the trends of the mid-20th century, philosophical enterprise has been intricately and seemingly irretrievably rooted in the theory of the given—an edification of philosophy as that giant mirror and standard for measuring what counts as knowledge; but is it thus synonymous with or reducible to epistemology? How or why? There are two a...

The Fine Art of Conversation

This workshop is aimed at giving human interaction researchers the conceptual and practical apparatus to balance their representations of data (mixes of drawings and photographs in the most part), so as to “maximally incite, but also constrain” their representations, just as artists sometimes succeed in doing (Streeck, Grothues, & Villanueva, 2009, p.28). Why—as Streeck points out—are the drawi...

The Dating of Rock Art: a Critique

The methods for estimating the antiquity of rock art are reviewed critically, dividing them into traditional and scientific approaches. The reliability of both is examined critically. It seems that the most promising options have attracted only limited interest, while those methods that have been afforded the most sustained research efforts have been discredited or provide only tenuous results....

The Role of Myth in Art During the Millennia: A critique of Nature in Ancient Art, Marzieh Torajie