Lecture on "Sensus communis" [FIC·REF] - 26 September 2014 - MIT, Cambridge
Bruno Latour Keynote at CAST Symposium Seeing / Sounding / Sensing: "Sensus communis"
Friday, September 26, 2014 | 5:00–7:00pm
Media Lab E14-674
Immanuel Kant founded a philosophy on the notion of a “common sense.” Through sensory experience we would slowly accumulate knowledge of the world, and in sharing it, form human culture. But is there a common sense, or merely convention established through language? Does science form a genuinely alternative way of knowing the world, or merely establish different practices for describing it? In his philosophy and sociology of science, Bruno Latour has established a profound social difference between “matters of fact” that science can produce and “matters of concern” that communities of non-scientists agree on.
Bruno Latour, Professor, Sciences Po Paris
Introduction: David Kaiser, Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, MIT
Commentary: Tomaso Poggio, Eugene McDermott Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
See the video here
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Homage to Adam Lowe Factum Arte from BL's lecture at MIT on the objectivity of beings of [FIC] and science pic.twitter.com/OgVVYIL9F3
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 27 Septembre 2014A mystery of philosophy & neurosciences is why they believe in a world made of 3+1 dimensions. BL.s suggestion is that it's from stilllifes.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 27 Septembre 2014All artists for 300 years have tried to escape from object/subject face to face but neuroscientists are still stuck with this face to face.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 27 Septembre 2014It's a good case of crossings: you can't map the objectivity of brain action on top of a model of subjectivity coming from seeing paintings.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 27 Septembre 2014That's where [FIC·REF] is useful because the missmatch with experience has nothing to do with artists being emotional & scientists rational.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 27 Septembre 2014External Resources: