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Economics of Attention Chapter 2

Back to Chapter 1. This chapter explores the art of Warhol and the Dada Movement as part of its argument that {fluff,style,rhetoric} has made a come back and is equally, if not more important than actual stuff: “The lesson was simple and, once learned, tedious. Art is not stuff made out of stuff taken from the earth’s… Continue reading Economics of Attention Chapter 2

Economics of Attention: Chapter 1

Back to introduction. The preface and first chapter of attempt to set the stage for what is to come. The author tells us that this book is written to answer the narrow question: “What happens when words move from printed page to electronic screen?” The answer, it turns out, is a transition to the age… Continue reading Economics of Attention: Chapter 1

Book Club: Economics of Attention

Book Club: Economics of Attention Starting this week at Philosophy Matters, we’re going to be reading The Economics of Attention. Attention is something I’ve written about the importance attention before, and I think it’s a topic that’s important to philosophy. We need to have time to reflect if we’re even going to do philosophy. This… Continue reading Book Club: Economics of Attention

Rural Schools for Acceptance

This post is part of a series by my students at Mississippi Governor’s School. As a final project, they were challenged with creating an idea that could be used on a massive scale to help others live the good life. I’ve received some important knowledge from this philosophy class over the past few weeks. We… Continue reading Rural Schools for Acceptance

Charity Apparel Design

This post is part of a series by my students at Mississippi Governor’s School. As a final project, they were challenged with creating an idea that could be used on a massive scale to help others live the good life. What did I learn in this class? I learned that not everything is as simple… Continue reading Charity Apparel Design

NSA Loyalty Rewards Program: $1,000 Tax Rebate

I keep waiting for this headline to appear. In the ongoing struggle between privacy and convenience, convenience often seems to win without much debate. Marketing and advertising professionals seem to have unlocked the key to getting consumers happily hand over data about themselves: simply offer some rewards. If you let us track all of your… Continue reading NSA Loyalty Rewards Program: $1,000 Tax Rebate

Self Esteem

This post is part of a series by my students at Mississippi Governor’s School. As a final project, they were challenged with creating an idea that could be used on a massive scale to help others live the good life. Philosophy is my life. Before I took this class, I would always ask “Why?” or… Continue reading Self Esteem

The Goals of Higher Education

I’m taking Cathy Davidson’s Coursera course on the History and Future of Higher Education, so I thought it would be a good time to reflect on some thoughts about higher education that were prompted in a pedagogy class I took last semester. In the book , Jo Sprague discusses four potential goals of education: Transmit… Continue reading The Goals of Higher Education

Bringing Light To Others

This post is part of a series by my students at Mississippi Governor’s School. As a final project, they were challenged with creating an idea that could be used on a massive scale to help others live the good life. Philosophy definitely showed me how to think by using a different perspective. I learned that… Continue reading Bringing Light To Others

4 Questions For the MOOC Dream and Higher Education

Let’s play a quick a game. See if you can guess when the following passage was written and to what technology it was referring. The writer hoped that students could be taught by: “a single inspiring teacher who speaks to the thousands of revived students through [a technology]. A whole nation of students might… Continue reading 4 Questions For the MOOC Dream and Higher Education