Debate: Can Neuroscience Help Us Understand Art?Gabrielle Starr (NYU), Dr Alva Noë (University of California, Berkeley)
Casa Italiana
24 W 12th St.
New York
United States
Sponsor(s):
- NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness
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The NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness announces a debate:
CAN NEUROSCIENCE HELP US UNDERSTAND ART?
Speakers: Gabrielle Starr (NYU, English)
and Alva Noë (UC Berkeley, Philosophy)
Thursday, December 10, 6:30-8:30pm
Casa Italiana, 24 W 12th St, NYU
Can understanding the brain reshape our conceptions of the arts? Is
there a viable field of neuroaesthetics? Gabrielle Starr (author of
Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/feeling-beauty) thinks so. Alva Noë
(author of Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
http://www.alvanoe.com/strange-tools) thinks not. They will debate
this issue on Thursday December 10 from 6:30-8:30 pm at Casa Italiana
(24 W 12th St).
Starr is Professor of English and Seryl Kushner Dean of the College of
Arts and Science at NYU. Noë is Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley
and a contributor to NPR's 13.7: Cosmos and Culture blog and the New
York Times' Opinionator blog.
No registration is required. Seating is first come, first served. A reception will follow the event.
This debate is sponsored by the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness, as part of a series of debates (two per semester) on
foundational issues in the mind/brain sciences. The third debate for 2015-16 will be held on Thursday February 4, 2016, between Susan Carey
(Harvard) and Jesse Prinz (CUNY) on "Are There Innate Concepts?".
Inquiries to [email protected].
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