It is often said, “experience is the best teacher.” But is it?
Slides for my talk at the 2017 Pacific APA pre-conference on Transformative Experience:
What Experience Does not Teach
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Barbara Gail Montero
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aesthetics Alvin Goldman Anders Ericsson bodily awareness body problem Brian O'Shaunessy causal closure chess Chomsky Ciskszentimialyi conceivability consciousness dance David Chalmers David Lewis effortlessness epistemology expertise Frank Jackson grounding Hegel Hempel's dilemma Hubert Dreyfus Hume improvisation infinity intuition Jennifer Hornsby John McDowell John Sutton L.A. Paul Marcel Proust meaning of life memory mind-body problem music neural plasticity neuroscience Nietzsche nineteenth-century German philosophy nonmental panpsychism perception philosophy of action philosophy of mind physicalism pi Plato poems proprioception rationality Richard Shusterman Russellian Monism sex somaesthetics sports supervenience the causal argument for physicalism the knowledge argument The Materialismusstreit the physical the unconscious Transformative Experience trying utilitarianism via negativa Virginia Woolf zombies
