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 consciousness@nyu.edu.