Can understanding how the mind appreciates art give insight into how the mind works generally and broadly? What is it about art that it can penetrate mental barriers and reveal mental mechanics? How does art influence multiple cognitive and emotional processes? Art's diverse functions - communications, expression, social cohesion - tease out and reflect diverse mental faculties.
Duration: 29 minutes and 0 seconds
Episode Number: 105
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| Fri, Jan 30 | 1:30 P.M. | Can Art Probes Mind? NH World (11.3) |
Art delights us, but how and why? What makes art transcendent, and how does the art-transcendence nexus engage the mind? Explore art, appreciate art, with cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy of art, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, art history, theology, sociology, and more.
Art Seeking Understanding is a long-term program of the Templeton Religion Trust.
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