Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 126.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 08:16:37 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <w.mccarty@btinternet.com>
Subject: How troubling are the Dialogues of Hume!
Some of you will know how much fun Monte Python had with philosophy and
philosophers. The NB column in the latest TLS (5180, 12 July, p. 16), under
the title "Philosophy can be fun", draws our attention to the summer issue
of Philosophers' Magazine, on philosophers in the movies, and to the themed
Hotel Filosof in Amsterdam. The hotel has a Bishop Berkeley room, which
isn't there at all. But we can be especially glad for the mention of the
Philosophy Songs website,
<http://www.uwmanitowoc.uwc.edu/staff/awhite/phisong.htm> (MIDI and MP3s
included, the latter featuring Professor Alan White singing the lyrics). I
recommend it to your attention, as a fine example of an online pedagogical
resource. Imagine being able to sing, to your students, of course, "now I
got a right, right, right, episteme!" (to the music of "I Can See Clearly
Now").
One does have to wonder about the possibilities of music in the performance
of philosophy, but here one needs professional help. Is there a doctor (of
and in philosophy) in the house? Anything can be *discussed*
philosophically, including of course music. But is a performative
philosophy out of the question? (Face-to-face dialogue comes to mind.) If
not, then could there be ways of doing philosophy in multimedia? Or do we
simply declare all this silly business? Is a multimedia of (as well as in)
scholarship possible?
Yours,
WM
Dr Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London,
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, U.K.,
+44 (0)20 7848-2784, ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/,
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