Excited to listen in to your lectures as time allows - I just finished phenomenology of perception a few months ago and have been working toward my dissertation which centers on the idea that we can use phenomenology, and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology more specifically, to come up with pedagogical methods that combat some of our detached and abstract systems of learning. I think body schema is a fantastic way to think about identity development and personal growth as well as traumatic response in students, but I'm also interested to think through the idea of "maximum grip" and how teachers might create conditions (or, as my Heideggerian advisor likes to say - create clearings) for students' bodies to find that maximum grip. Ideally that creates some perceptual traction rather than just information processing... at least thats how I think of it.
Thanks, Sean. Let me know if you have any comments or questions as you listen. I have a whole on course on Heidegger's Being and Time I'll be uploading soon too, and few more lectures on Merleau-Ponty. Your research ideas sound fascinating, important, and timely, given the infiltration of AI into education. You might want to check out Hubert Dreyfus's little book "On the Internet" - at least one of the chapters deals specifically with education from a phenomenological point of view. Get the second edition of the book, not the first.
Appreciate it! It was Dreyfus' lectures on Merleau-Ponty that originally got me interested (these ones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwIpF-eNKwU) so I will definitely get my hands on that book.
Look forward to you being and time course, thats the next big book on my list to knock out after I make some more dissertation progress.
(also side note - just saw your about page and punk side gigs... love the punk to philosophy pipeline. I used to work at Bridge Nine when I was in college in Boston years ago)
Excited to listen in to your lectures as time allows - I just finished phenomenology of perception a few months ago and have been working toward my dissertation which centers on the idea that we can use phenomenology, and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology more specifically, to come up with pedagogical methods that combat some of our detached and abstract systems of learning. I think body schema is a fantastic way to think about identity development and personal growth as well as traumatic response in students, but I'm also interested to think through the idea of "maximum grip" and how teachers might create conditions (or, as my Heideggerian advisor likes to say - create clearings) for students' bodies to find that maximum grip. Ideally that creates some perceptual traction rather than just information processing... at least thats how I think of it.
Glad to have stumbled up on your substack!
Thanks, Sean. Let me know if you have any comments or questions as you listen. I have a whole on course on Heidegger's Being and Time I'll be uploading soon too, and few more lectures on Merleau-Ponty. Your research ideas sound fascinating, important, and timely, given the infiltration of AI into education. You might want to check out Hubert Dreyfus's little book "On the Internet" - at least one of the chapters deals specifically with education from a phenomenological point of view. Get the second edition of the book, not the first.
Appreciate it! It was Dreyfus' lectures on Merleau-Ponty that originally got me interested (these ones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwIpF-eNKwU) so I will definitely get my hands on that book.
Look forward to you being and time course, thats the next big book on my list to knock out after I make some more dissertation progress.
(also side note - just saw your about page and punk side gigs... love the punk to philosophy pipeline. I used to work at Bridge Nine when I was in college in Boston years ago)
I too love meeting other punk-philosophers! There are many of us, haha, and I think that makes good sense.