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  1. Next week at the Forum, does the universe have a purpose? John Cottingham, & Tim Mulgan

  2. Philosophy-as-improv-music

  3. Another packed event comes to an end. No jazz hands to be seen anywhere (slightly disappointed)

  4. Bowie: the idea that philosophy delivers something more solid than music is a myth; people get far more out of music

  5. Tonight's panel on improvisation in music and philosophy kicks off with a very full house!

  6. Hamilton: why do we value spontaneous art (and are disappointed if we discover it's not spontaneous)?

  7. Hamilton: useful distinction between aesthetics of perfection and of imperfection; the latter to the fore in jazz

  8. Hamilton: philosophy moving towards scientific model--a disaster; more interested in humanistic approach

  9. Andy Hamilton up next with one of his signature handouts: 'I'm only interested in improvisation in theory...'

  10. Cull O'Maoilearca: doing-thinking just as legitimate as traditional 'thinking' (which is embodied anyway)

  11. Cull O'Maoilearca: theatre can be 'metaphysics in action'

  12. Cull O'Maoilearca: performative practices embedded in history of philosophy

  13. Laura Cull O'Maoilearca next up: Plato was anti-performance (esp poetry), but wrote dialogues with characters

  14. Laura Cull O'Maoilearca: Bowie sets up false dichotomy; not philosophy versus performance but philosophy through performance

  15. Andy Hamilton: 90% of any profession is hacks, philosophy no different!

  16. Bowie continues to be provocative': "There isn't a thing called 'music'"

  17. Our chair takes Bowie to task; philosophy is just as capable of engendering improvisation and transcending rules

  18. Bowie: music isn't an object outside of us, to be dissected by philosophy from distance; it is part of us; we are rhythmic beings

  19. Bowie: most of music and life involved improvisation within the rules, but great improv music transcends the rules

  20. Bowie: music makes the world hang together in a way philosophy in the modern period doesn't

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