Acknowledgment, affirmation, and avoidance
In this webinar, Vincent Colapietro will discuss the work of acknowledgment in its various forms.
Acknowledgment, affirmation, and avoidance
24 Nov 2021, 17:30 – 19:00
To join the talk, please contact the organiser, Alison Brady.
Professor Colapietro will look into how this work might go badly awry. While acknowledgment entails affirmation, many of our gestures and especially techniques of affirmation result in the opposite of what we intend – as students frequently attest.
He will argue that we need to be especially attentive to what we are avoiding (what we are neither saying nor seeing).
This event will be particularly useful for those interested in Philosophy of Education, teaching and learning, and Wittgenstein.
PESGB seminar series
This event is part of The Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) seminar series. PESGB is a learned society that promotes the study, teaching and application of philosophy of education. Its London Branch hosts seminars every Wednesday in conjunction with Philosophy at the Institute of Education. These seminars are led by national and international scholars in the field, covering a wide range of issues of educational and philosophical concern.
All are welcome to attend.
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Vincent Colapietro
Liberal Arts Research Professor Emeritus in Philosophy & African American Studies
Pennsylvania State University
One of his main areas of research is pragmatism, with emphasis on Peirce. His books include Peirce’s Approach to the Self (1989), A Glossary of Semiotics(1993), Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom (2003), and Acción, sociabilidad y drama: Un retrato pragmatista del animal humano (2020). Vincent is also the author of numerous essays. He has written on a wide range of topics, from music (especially jazz) and cinema to psychoanalysis and deconstruction, from art and literature to ontology and phenomenology.
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