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Values And Sensibility in Education

All of us have feelings like these over cultural products like books or movies, that I am categorizing as works of art.

Podcast

Mitch Hampton

Sep 1, 20249 min read

Diversity, Beliefs, Democracy and Art

"I should make my own position as a philosopher clear. I'm not a relativist and I'm not an absolutist in the senses I have been talking...

Mitch Hampton

Jul 1, 202310 min read

May Post: Philosophy and Daily Life

In April I wrote at far greater length than I perhaps should have about Immanuel Kant. It immediately reminded me of Tim Scanlon's joke...

Mitch Hampton

May 1, 20237 min read

March Post: The Reception of Art and Personal Experience

We like March. His Shoes are Purple — He is new and high — Makes he Mud for Dog and Peddler. Makes he Forests dry. Knows the Adder Tongue...

Mitch Hampton

Mar 1, 20236 min read

The End of The Phone

For what I now realize was quite a long period of time, from 1987/88 when first I lived on my own to about 2007 or so, the phone occupied...

Mitch Hampton

Nov 1, 20227 min read

"Acting in Character"

"Usually there is a protagonist who the audience watches the movie THROUGH. But then you need that OTHER guy in the story." (Ned Beatty,...

Mitch Hampton

Oct 1, 20229 min read

Getting philosophical with Snapshots,Books and Beaches

August is, of course, a central month in the Summer. In the past year I have been organizing all of my personal effects, mainly...

Mitch Hampton

Aug 1, 20227 min read

On Concepts, Categories and Lived Experience

"The time to make up your mind about people is never." Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (Donald Ogden Stewart/Philip Barry/George...

Mitch Hampton

Jul 1, 20225 min read

April:On Getting in Touch With One's Feelings

George W. S. Trow, the public intellectual, humorist, essayist, screenwriter, journalist and many other things, closes his last book...

Arts and Humanities

Mitch Hampton

Apr 1, 20226 min read

March Post: Embracing our Plurality

As my roots are in a style that I would call philosophical: there really isn't any way to avoid such a quality in these blog posts even...

Mitch Hampton

Mar 1, 20226 min read

Back to School, or, How we never really leave school, even if we want to......

At every opportunity I try to spread the word on this remarkable photo essay on Bennington College in the 80s. I won't be coy; I like...

Mitch Hampton

Sep 1, 20215 min read

"June is Busting Out All Over"

June is busting out all over! Art, criticism and how we discern what we love.

Podcast

Mitch Hampton

Jun 1, 20216 min read

Our "Back to School" Post

An inside look at our September episodes and the connectivity of all the arts.

Podcast

Mitch Hampton

Sep 3, 20204 min read