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Next week at the Forum, does the universe have a purpose? John Cottingham,
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Another packed event comes to an end. No jazz hands to be seen anywhere (slightly disappointed)
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Bowie: the idea that philosophy delivers something more solid than music is a myth; people get far more out of music
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Tonight's panel on improvisation in music and philosophy kicks off with a very full house!
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Hamilton: why do we value spontaneous art (and are disappointed if we discover it's not spontaneous)?
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Hamilton: useful distinction between aesthetics of perfection and of imperfection; the latter to the fore in jazz
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Hamilton: philosophy moving towards scientific model--a disaster; more interested in humanistic approach
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Andy Hamilton up next with one of his signature handouts: 'I'm only interested in improvisation in theory...'
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Cull O'Maoilearca: doing-thinking just as legitimate as traditional 'thinking' (which is embodied anyway)
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Cull O'Maoilearca: theatre can be 'metaphysics in action'
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Cull O'Maoilearca: performative practices embedded in history of philosophy
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Laura Cull O'Maoilearca next up: Plato was anti-performance (esp poetry), but wrote dialogues with characters
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Laura Cull O'Maoilearca: Bowie sets up false dichotomy; not philosophy versus performance but philosophy through performance
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Andy Hamilton: 90% of any profession is hacks, philosophy no different!
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Bowie continues to be provocative': "There isn't a thing called 'music'"
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Our chair
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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
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Bowie: most of music and life involved improvisation within the rules, but great improv music transcends the rules
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Bowie: music makes the world hang together in a way philosophy in the modern period doesn't
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