April 2025 – Handling Ideas
3 posts published by Martin Lenz and irmtraudhnilica during April 2025| Handling Ideas
3 posts published by Martin Lenz and irmtraudhnilica during April 2025| Handling Ideas
Suppose you witness an accident and have to report it to the police. “Well, the red car drove with high speed towards me and then took a sharp left turn”, you exclaim. You try hard to find the righ…| Handling Ideas
“… interpretation is the source of texts, facts, authors, and intentions.” Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? Do you remember when you first committed some of your own thoughts to paper? Perhaps you kept a diary, perhaps you wrote poems or lyrics or crafted a letter to a friend. Perhaps you had … Continue reading What does it say? The supposed objectivity of written texts→| Handling Ideas
I Pointing is a nonverbal gesture. Often, the index finger is used. Like an archer aiming an arrow at a target, the index finger aims at something. This gesture is meant to direct another person’s attention, to move their gaze so that they focus on the object indicated by the finger. It is also possible … Continue reading Pointing to Oneself. Simone Weil and the problem of what it could mean to write a philosophical diary (Guest post by Michael Hampe)→| Handling Ideas
Having been busy with grading again, I noticed a strange double standard in our reading practice and posted the following remark on facebook and twitter: A question for scholars. - How can we spend a lifetime on a chapter in Aristotle and think we're done with a student essay in two hours? Both can be…| Handling Ideas
A question for scholars. – How can we spend a lifetime on a chapter in Aristotle and think we’re done with a student essay in two hours? Both can be equally enigmatic. Writing this little joke back…| Handling Ideas
Schreiben ist schwer. Schreiben über das, was man zu schreiben beabsichtigt, ist meist noch schwerer, weil man nicht weiß, was man herausfinden wird. Dennoch ist gerade bei der Absprache einer Arbe…| Handling Ideas
Currently, Irmtraud Hnilica and I are sketching guiding ideas for a project that has been in the making for some time. Below is a small blurb. Please feel free to get in touch, if you’re interested…| Handling Ideas
Her eyes are wide open, her left hand covering her mouth to suppress a scream. – Imagining this kind of scene, ideally in black and white, you know you’re probably watching a classic horror film. This kind of scene is called a reaction shot. It’s designed to show the reaction to an event rather than … Continue reading Witnessing reactions to ideas. A response to Michael Hampe’s autobiographical philosophy→| Handling Ideas
“What the philosopher establishes in their labors are not truths or theses, but rather scores, scores for thinking with.” Alva Noë, The Entanglement, 115 If it’s true that so many peopl…| Handling Ideas
Do we really let ourselves be encouraged to present our ideas with flashy powerpoint slides and then wonder why students don’t bother reading books anymore? Last weekend, I had an inspiring seminar…| Handling Ideas
When my dear colleague Martin Lenz sent me a link to Hilarius Bookbinder’s blog post “The average college student today”, I immediately knew this would be a lamentation about how students nowadays couldn’t care less, wouldn’t make the effort, and simply didn’t read. Not that I have psychic abilities about blog posts. But Martin and … Continue reading Are we talking literacy or buffalo wings? Notes on “The average college student today”. Guest post by Irmtraud Hnilica→| Handling Ideas
„Die Luft verändert sich – fein Säure – Luft – mein Gesicht – Ausdruck – Konsistenz“ – Was war das? Zugegeben, ich war etwas müde, aber meine Augen schienen wie haltlose Flummis über die Buchseite …| Handling Ideas
