Doświadczenie i eksperyment w sztuce

• Authors: Alva Noë

Title variants

EN

Experience and Experiment in Art

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

A significant impediment to the study of perceptual consciousness is our dependence on simplistic ideas about what experience is like. This is a point that has been made by Wittgenstein, and by philosophers working in the Phenomenological Tradition, such as Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. Importantly, it is an observation that has been brought to the fore in recent discussions of consciousness among philosophers and cognitive scientists who have come to feel the need for a more rigorous phenomenology of experience. The central thought of this paper is that art can make a needed contribution to the study of perceptual consciousness. The work of some artists can teach us about perceptual consciousness by furnishing us with the opportunity to have a special kind of reflective experience. In this way, art can be a tool for phenomenological investigation. The paper has three parts. First, I present what I call the problem of the transparency of experience. This is a problem for philosophy, for art, and for cognitive science. Second, I present an alternative conception of experience as a mode of interactive engagement with the environment. Finally, against the background of this conception, I discuss, briefly, the work of the sculptors Richard Serra and Tony Smith.

Keywords

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ART; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIMENT; PHENOMENOLOGY; SERRA; SMITH

• Publisher: Ośrodek Badań Filozoficznych - Centre for Philosophical Research
• Journal: Avant
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 259-273

Contributors

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Alva Noë

• Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences Department of Philosophy Moses Hall 2390 University of California Berkeley CA 94720-2390, USA