talkPOPc stands for Philosophers' Ontological Party club. It is a non-profit that was founded by Dena Shottenkirk, who is both a philosopher and an artist. It sponsors one-to-one conversations with a philosopher. The philosopher wears this amazing gold African king hat! Various philosophers participate and it happens in various places. For example, we go into bars and have one-to-one conversations. Various bars, both dives and fancy. We go to Grand Central Station in New York City. We go to the sidewalk outside City Hall in Philly. We go into bodegas all over Brooklyn. We sit down next to the deli counter and hold a conversation with someone who has walked in to get a ham sandwich and walked out knowing so much more about their own thoughts. We go into city parks and set up the talkPOPc's tent. We listen. Here are some of the conversations.
Timestamps:00:20: First Impressions of Art as Cognition01:00: Art is an expression of the mind. Expressing the self02:08: Expressionists: Showing the ...
Timestamps:00:35: Elaine and Nicholas tackle the definition of Art as Cognition via first impressions. "Your immediate impulse in response to a blank ...
Jacob, a pre-med student, talks about how visual gist (in the first 300 ms) is something similar to an interpersonal immediate impression - how we lik...
RP Shottenkirk and participant Nicola Johnson discuss fashion: what makes it good or bad, and why we care. "It goes back to the mind" Nicola says at t...
talkPOPc participant Mark Friedman begins the conversation with Resident Philosopher Carolina Flores by talking about the Italian Renaissance, in par...
Ian Olasov begins the conversation with the point that philosophy can play a role in how we get out of the pandemic by building community. Alex brin...