Category: philosophical counseling
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Our arquebus moment
A philosophical review of Saul Frampton’s When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know that She Is Not Playing with Me? Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life (New York: Random House, 2011). — The rending of man from nature first came with the flood. Before that, one must imagine a time of amity,…
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Good art is good for much: An end to the problem of funding
I knew nothing about improvisation until a few days ago, but for some time I’ve latched onto the idea that the philosophical conversations in my philosophy practice have been shading into territory laid open by improv. So when I spoke with Alex Fradera, a friend of Dougald’s who finished his Ph.D. in psychology and who now…
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3 misconceptions about the making of art
Yesterday, I set out to sweep away the funding models for the artistic life that have been prevalant, let’s say, from around WWII up to the present. If an individual wanted to lead a creative life and she was coming of age in the post-war period, she was presented with three options. One was Bohemia:…
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How does one support a creative life in the early 21st C.?
How does one support a creative life in the early 21st C.? How make a living without losing one’s shirt or one’s soul? Much to my dismay, Lewis Hyde, in The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, does not broach these questions because he is concerned, as he states quite explicitly, with writing…
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Friday meditation: On the alchemy of reconceptualization
Fine phrase this. So what’s this (he consults his piece of paper) ‘alchemy of reconceptualization,’ as you call it? It’s an ongoing process of making sense of one’s life. It involves surveying the parts of your past and transforming the self. Bear in mind that it’s not a one-off, and yet there are rest stops…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 
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