
Alva Noë | How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
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In this episode, my guest is Alva Noë, the author of The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are. Alva is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a member of the Center for New Media, the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, and the Program in Critical Theory. His other books include Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature and Learning to Look: Dispatches from the Art World.
In this episode, Alva and I discuss:
- Making sense of the search for wisdom.
- How art helps us re-organize ourselves.
- Why we are creatures of style.
- The connection between art and philosophy.
- Wisdom in daily life and much more.
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