How does the study of evolution, coordination dynamics, sports, social interactions, and aesthetics help us understand movement and life? In this roundtable, we will explore: movement and objects as distinctively different “things” to study; coordination dynamics and intrinsic dynamics and tendencies; kinesthesia; the evolution of social coordination; how, in the living company of others, we are both challenged and supported; and the value of nurturing and pursuing a moving life with all its risks and challenges.
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This is a past event that happened on Friday, October 26th 7:00 - 9:00PM.
Participants
Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Linfield College
Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Linfield College (Oregon), received the 2011-2012 Samuel H. Graf Faculty Achievement Award and was the 2008-2009 Allen & Pat Kelley Faculty Scholar. Currently he serves as conference chair for the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. He is the co-editor with M. Austin of Cycling—Philosophy for Everyone. He... read more! »
Albert A. Johnstone
Courtesy Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon
Albert A. Johnstone is a philosopher who has presented internationally on a wide variety of philosophical subjects. He is author of the book, Epistemology: Taking Solipsism Seriously, and many scholarly papers, including his recent, “The Deep Bodily Roots of Emotion” (Husserl Studies, 2012) and “The Basic Self and Its Doubles” (Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2011).
J. A. Scott Kelso
Glenwood and Martha Creech Chair in Science, Florida Atlantic University
J. A. Scott Kelso grew up in Derry, N. Ireland and was educated at universities in Belfast, Calgary and Wisconsin. He was senior research scientist at Yale’s Haskins Laboratories for 7 years before moving to Florida Atlantic University in 1985 to take up the Glenwood and Martha Creech Chair in Science and found The Center for... read more! »
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
Courtesy Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is a philosopher whose first life was as a dancer/choreographer, professor of dance/dance scholar. She has an ongoing Courtesy Professor appointment in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon where she taught periodically in the 1990s. She has published numerous articles in humanities, art, and science journals, the latter journals most recently... read more! »
What are the essential characteristics of life?; what are the essential characteristics of movement?; and how are they related?
Is life the standard for activity vs. passivity?
How do active pursuits and their study contribute to fruitful inquiry into life and movement? What does such “movement know-how” of dynamic endeavors bring to the table? What methodologies are best suited for its study?
In what ways do active pursuits foster creativity and the faculty of imagination such that they entwine new epistemological paradigms and ways of kinesthetic experience and expression?
Why is kinesthesia—kinesthetic experience—an overlooked and neglected sense modality and what exactly in concrete experiential terms is being overlooked and neglected?
What is coordination, how is it manifested, why is it important, and how do we approach understanding coordination in complex systems?
How is it that common dynamics are observed across very different coordination systems?
If all humans are connected through time not just by generations of genes, but also through generations of being held and holding, that is, through rhythms of life that connect us, through the form of our bodies and our obligatory interdependence, then how do we hone in on and study these rhythms of life?