Tag: Misconceptions

• June 21, 2015

  Eloquence Training: Episode 3. Misconceptions About Eloquence

  Eloquence involves saying the right thing in the right way with a sense of ease. An eloquent person, then, is someone who often or almost always speaks eloquently. In this third episode, Alexandra and I discuss misconceptions about the nature of eloquence: that eloquence is flowery speech, charismatic speech, or scholarly discourse. We urge instead…
• March 25, 2014

  Philosophy in the Popular Imagination

  The March/April 2014 issue of Philosophy Now, a magazine of philosophical ideas, is out. My contribution, ‘Philosophy in the Popular Imagination,’ can be read online here.  
• November 8, 2011

  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:…