Nicholas Wolterstorff - Art and Epistemology
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Can art go beyond the pleasures of experience to convey knowledge or even understanding? If so, what could be the kinds of knowledge or understanding made manifest by art? Conversely, can epistemology help discern art?
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Nicholas Wolterstorff is an American philosopher and a liturgical theologian. He is currently Noah Porter Professor Emeritus Philosophical Theology at Yale University.
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U was always amazed how people who are def and blind from a birth, can shape great arts with their hands. It's incredible how they visualize a clear idea and express product of thoughts into something beautiful and meaningful to an outside world, for people who can hear and see to admire. This is one way how epistemology of art can induce altered states of mind, not just an artistic product in itself.
its true, the limited aesthetic view began at the end of the eighteenth century. Kant is often referenced here but the problem probably lies earlier with Roger de Piles.
Don't drop this subject! It is good to hear that you are recently interested with the subject. It seems videos will help us as sources. In my opinion, exploring artists perception, for example when creating a painting or thinking about photographic scene before creating it is also important part of art, rather than cognitivism and spectator point of view. Are there any relationship between epistemology, and perceptive creation? It is also about subjectivity, right? Deleuze once said " artists create percepts". What is the meaning of this? You can also make some videos about phenomenology, as introduction. Good topic, again.
Could you please explain what epistemology is? I looked up the definition but I still can't wrap my head around it.
@@slinky9322 Hi, firstly, ım not a professional nor a philosopher and my native language is not English. But try to do my best shortly. I don't have much more knowledge about epistemology but there are several explanations, such as epistemology is the study of the nature and the source and the origin and the limits of human knowledge. How and what do we/can we know? If the starting point is perception, art and artists are colorful place to work and research for it. If the visible world is the source for our knowledge, how and what can we perceive it? How art gives us the way we perceive it? And if knowledge is justified belief, what can we do with the subjective world of art? what is art and what is epistemology, first we should study the meaning of them, and try to connect relations between them such as, perception.
@@slinky9322 Traditional definition: how do we know something is true we believe is true,
modern extension: how do we know what is not true what we think it can't be true.
@@cagdasozgun5883 thank you, that really broke things down for me.
@@xspotbox4400 makes sense, thank you.
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basically Mr Nicholas Wolterstorff do not have answer to the question, from his discipline point of view. he was struggling with the whole question and was not expecting that question at all. the point is its very difficult question, may be a philosopher can try to answer it.
I don't know what art is but, I know what I like. 😊
How is it possible that Popper is still ignored after all these years? These people are still looking for justification for their knowledge, Popper solved this problem, it's impossible, and it's preferable that it's impossible, it implies that progress in the growth of knowledge is in principle indefinite
@@Punjabi_dude most philosophers failed to even understand Popper's epistemology
José Chalupa I’m a big fan of Popper and “falsification” (though I think Lakatos is perhaps more nuanced). However, it’s really only applicable where you can make a prediction from a theory eg. in Science. I don’t think you can really do that from an artwork.
@@uremove uremove what do you mean Popper'd thing "falsification"? To Popper that was simply a distinction between scientific theories and those which aren't, it doesn't have any more meaning, it's a pragmatic distinction, we say the scientific theories are those which can be experimentally tested, because that is a rational criterion.
So you're right it's only applicable for science, because all Popper said was those theories for which this is applicable, are what we call scientific theories. It isn't a criterion of meaning or truthfulness, he doesn't say falsifiability is what decided of a theory is meaningfull or not, it isn't what decides whether something can or can't be considered as possibly being true.
@@Punjabi_dude the other commenter mentioning "falsification". He says it thinking of falsification as a quality a theory must have in order for it's truth to even be considered. As in, if a theory isn't falsifiable, then it can't be considered to be true. This isn't what Popper said, it's one of the many ways he was and still is misinterpreted.
Grizzly Bear That’s a pretty neat summary!
José Chalupa So, why is Popper relevant in a discussion on the epistemology of art? Especially when the point being made is about broadening “epistemology of art” to include ‘perception’ and ‘understanding’. Popper hasn’t been “ignored”, he just isn’t relevant to the topics discussed in the video. So, I’m genuinely puzzled... what point are you making?