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Mitch Hampton
Sep 1, 20249 min read
Values And Sensibility in Education
All of us have feelings like these over cultural products like books or movies, that I am categorizing as works of art.
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Mitch Hampton
Jul 1, 202310 min read
Diversity, Beliefs, Democracy and Art
"I should make my own position as a philosopher clear. I'm not a relativist and I'm not an absolutist in the senses I have been talking...
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Mitch Hampton
May 1, 20237 min read
May Post: Philosophy and Daily Life
In April I wrote at far greater length than I perhaps should have about Immanuel Kant. It immediately reminded me of Tim Scanlon's joke...
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Mitch Hampton
Mar 1, 20236 min read
March Post: The Reception of Art and Personal Experience
We like March. His Shoes are Purple — He is new and high — Makes he Mud for Dog and Peddler. Makes he Forests dry. Knows the Adder Tongue...
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Mitch Hampton
Nov 1, 20227 min read
The End of The Phone
For what I now realize was quite a long period of time, from 1987/88 when first I lived on my own to about 2007 or so, the phone occupied...
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Mitch Hampton
Oct 1, 20229 min read
"Acting in Character"
"Usually there is a protagonist who the audience watches the movie THROUGH. But then you need that OTHER guy in the story." (Ned Beatty,...
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Mitch Hampton
Aug 1, 20227 min read
Getting philosophical with Snapshots,Books and Beaches
August is, of course, a central month in the Summer. In the past year I have been organizing all of my personal effects, mainly...
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Mitch Hampton
Jul 1, 20225 min read
On Concepts, Categories and Lived Experience
"The time to make up your mind about people is never." Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (Donald Ogden Stewart/Philip Barry/George...
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Mitch Hampton
Apr 1, 20226 min read
April:On Getting in Touch With One's Feelings
George W. S. Trow, the public intellectual, humorist, essayist, screenwriter, journalist and many other things, closes his last book...
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Mitch Hampton
Mar 1, 20226 min read
March Post: Embracing our Plurality
As my roots are in a style that I would call philosophical: there really isn't any way to avoid such a quality in these blog posts even...
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Mitch Hampton
Sep 1, 20215 min read
Back to School, or, How we never really leave school, even if we want to......
At every opportunity I try to spread the word on this remarkable photo essay on Bennington College in the 80s. I won't be coy; I like...
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Mitch Hampton
Jun 1, 20216 min read
"June is Busting Out All Over"
June is busting out all over! Art, criticism and how we discern what we love.
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Mitch Hampton
Sep 3, 20204 min read
Our "Back to School" Post
An inside look at our September episodes and the connectivity of all the arts.
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