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A conversation with philosopher and author C. Thi Nguyen about the power of focus, the precision of puzzles, the dangers and delights of games and play and the distinction between them.

We talk about his recent book Games, Agency as Art and well as his popular articles Echo Chambers and Epistemic Bubbles and How Twitter gamifies communication.


Some of the books and people mentioned are:

Mary Poovey, History of the Modern Fact

Theodore Porter, Trust in Numbers

Bernard Suits definition of games

Jerry Levinson, Moral Outrage Porn

Basho: even in Kyoto / when I hear a cuckoo cry / I long for Kyoto

Feminist philosophy of art by Anne Eaton

Annette Baier, Trust and Anti-Trust


Transcript:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Love and Philosophy Beyond Dichotomies. Today, we're  📍 talking to C. Thi Nguyen. Mostly about his book Games ,Agency as Art but also about many other things....about love, how is it related to games? Thi is a kind of philosopher's philosopher, so it's a little surprising to hear him say that philosophy was his backup career that he actually wanted to be a novelist.  But when you hear how much pleasure he takes in Kant's formula of humanity, I think you'll also imagine he's always been a philosopher as well....we turn back and forth and shift around like a Rubik's cube. Art. Porn. Focus. Vulnerability. We talk a lot about trust...

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Care is not the opposite of love. It is the very urge of life. 'Caring for what?' is the primary question. That we have a choice about what we care for and how is what makes us human, but it's quite the challenge and responsibility. Let's help one another handle it.

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A foundational discussion in the philosophy of love with Prof Alex Moseley.

Check out the Philosophy of Love encyclopedia article here. Or his other articles.

More at What is Love?

The three kinds of love we discuss here are eros, agape, and philia. More on this at readings in the philosophy of Love.

Here is the website for Alex and his YouTube Channel.

Transcript preview:
Andrea: [00:00:00] Hey everybody. So glad you're here. Today we're talking to. Professor Alex Mosley. He's a teacher. He's also a coach. He also wrote the encyclopedia entry for love and philosophy. So who better to talk to? We'll link to the internet encyclopedia entry on that in the show notes. So be sure to check it out and. Here we talk about love and we tried to go past traditional boundaries. Both of us were trained in philosophy, both analytic and continental, but both of us also have a--what shall I say--more explorative side as well, when it comes to trying to understand the world. So we just sorta let it all go where it would. We meander and go into all kinds of [00:01:00] different ideas, some of them, which analytic philosophers might not like, but, also some of them which make me uncomfortable, but you know, that's part of the show is just trying to see where we can go and how we can find new ways to look at these things that seem not to go together or seem to make us uncomfortable....

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Care is not the opposite of love. It is the very urge of life. 'Caring for what?' is the primary question. That we have a choice about what we care for and how is what makes us human, but it's quite the challenge and responsibility. Let's help one another handle it.

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A powerful conversation with facilitator Lisa Fitzhugh about the coherence between our internal and external worlds. Sometimes we focus so much on cultivating our external persona that we are blind to how such striving affects our private, inner world.

What does it take to look honestly at both, and to see their coherence?

Lisa works with top business and political leaders to build teams that thrive. She also founded one of the most nationally recognized and respected youth arts organizations in Seattle.

Read Manager Magazine's recent article about Lisa and another company she co-founded, Creative Ground.

Watch Lisa's TedX talk.

Lisa was listed as one of Redbook's Mothers and Shakers.

Seattle Women wrote a piece on her called Art Becomes Her.

Watch the full ArtsCorps Tribute to Lisa that we speak about here.

Connect with Lisa on LinkedIn or through her website.

More here about her work around the idea of Coherence.

Find Lisa's latest inner examination and reckoning here: The Unmaking of Heresy.

"Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant." (Martin Heidegger)

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A discussion of network science, Curious Minds and Edge-working with Perry Zurn, a philosopher at American University. Perry is building the new field of Curiosity Studies. We discuss his newest book Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, written with his twin Dani Bassett, as well as Curiosity and Power and themes from Curiosity Studies: A new Ecology of Knowledge. "Maybe love and curiosity are not two different contexts."

Explore more of Perry's work and papers here.

You can also find Perry Zurn on LinkedIn or Twitter.

List to Dani and Perry on the Mindscape podcast.

Their Google Talk is here.

And here are Perry's Google Scholar publications.

The paper of Stephen Lyng on Edgework is here.

The artist we discuss is Poonam Mistry and can be found here.

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Care is not the opposite of love. It is the very urge of life. 'Caring for what?' is the primary question. That we have a choice about what we care for and how is what makes us human, but it's quite the challenge and responsibility. Let's help one another handle it.

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