What Is Public Philosophy?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Dr. Ellie Anderson and Dr. David Peña-Guzmán, Philosophy professors and co-hosts of Overthink podcast, discuss a topic close to their hearts: what is public philosophy? What are the potential problems with the idea of "public" philosophy? What are the institutional economic structures involved with both public and what might be critically called "private" philosophy?
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Much gratitude toward Dave and Ellie for the thought and effort they put in for these presentations. I love the “public” dynamic of the delivery guy arriving in the middle of this.
This use of 'public' assumes that philosophy and serious intellectual activity are things that ordinarily happen inside the academy rather than outside it. It reaffirms a norm to the effect that philosophy outside the academy is the exception.
Did you watch the video? This point is discussed in detail
Yeah, I wrote the comment as I was starting the video. Woops. It's a good one. Thanks for a good, nuanced public discussion.
We needn't accept this binary of academic and public. Problematizing it leads into questions about the role of the academy in society, about its relations to power, to other institutions and to authorities. Likewise for philosophy and "intellectuals" in general. I'll have to watch the video again.
Public philosophy may rescue our democratic culture, which is under threat.
it's interesting that you talk about philosophy as something that happens in the classroom -- obviously both of you are teachers -- but when we're talking about philosophy autodidacts, it has to happen in conversation with friends and peers, and it truly becomes concrete when it's utilized as a framework or put into practice as an ethics
I jumped for a sec I thought someone just knocked on my door LOLLLL !! 😭14:18
Public philosophy dates approximately to the Cynics rather than ethernet cables
Democratizing philosophy means there’s a dialogue between academia and non-academia with respect for training and respect for human capacity to engage in the process of philosophical generation.
what is private philosophy?
Thoughts I don't tell anyone
That's a joke. I think they mean the language used?
Private philosophy uses language only accessible to the author and experts while public philosophy uses language that can be accessed by most people.
Like you might hear a lot about people not understanding hegel. So I suppose his original works are private philosophy, but a guy that posts a 5 minute hegel intro to UA-cam or a 300 part video explanation of his interpretation of one Hegel book to UA-cam or these overthink guys are public philosophy.
I think
It's disciplinary philosophy, philosophy safely contained within the walls of academic control systems. Even when you're teaching courses that include Gramsci, Marx, and Fanon, or Foucault or Deleuze. Philosophy as academic steppingstone to comfortable status within established institutions, be they socialist, capitalist, or whatever. (Nope, no sour grapes here!)
@@anonymoushuman8344and yet Foucault and Deleuze worked within academy.
a lot of the themes in this comment thread are discussed in the video
Herbert Blumer, the American sociologist, in a paper of his, “The Mass, the Public and Public Opinion” drew a distinction between mass, then a new type of social formation, and other formations like groups, crowds and publics.
In a group members know each other, are aware of their common membership, they have a certain structure of stable relationships. Students of a particular module (subject) form groups.
Crowds are larger, but restricted within observable boundaries in a particular space. They are temporary and rarely re-form with the same composition. They may possess an identity and share the same mood. People attending a political meeting or rally form crowds.
The public is likely to be relatively large, widely dispersed and enduring. It tends to be formed around an issue or cause in public life, and its primary purpose is to advance an interest or an opinion or political change. It is an essential element in a democracy, based as it is on rational discourse and comprising a better-informed section of the population. In Greece there are publics of middle-class educated people who attend even philosophy classes in amphitheaters.
Mass captures features of the audiences or spectators of the mass media of communication. They are much larger than groups, crowds and publics. They are widely dispersed. They lack self-awareness and self-identity and they are incapable of acting together in an organized manner to secure objectives. They have a shifting composition within changing boundaries.
The interesting thing is that, whereas in traditional mass media, mass did not act for itself but acted upon, the new media that you are using like youtube and podcast and twitter provide the opportunity for people to respond, to act.
Finally, community is a social unit that shares socially significant characteristics like place, norms, culture, religion, values and customs. Thus, we can talk about the community of Sacramento, California or of the Pomona College.
With all respect, there is high pitched background noise in this video
The study of what you don't know for everyone to think about.
Most philosophy is just too dense for the general public and it takes too much work to go through.
oh wow yall really let yaselves go. what happened? public philosophy also known as propa-propaganda
Very happy for your version of "public philosophy"
Just throwing it out there, the rode dual lav mic setup costs $200 on Amazon right now.
I love your guys’ work but this is nigh-unlistenable.
The mic on the shelf is probably adequate as it has several settings for picking up audio. Omnidirectional, Bidirectional, or Stereo would all probably work, if the mic was positioned in front of, and between, two speakers. On a little table just above their knee height.
@David and Ellie IMO it doesn’t bother me too much. Can it be better? Yes. Equally you guys can be heard so it’s good enough.
On the audio side, this was probably on camera microphone audio, which can be good but because you guys are probably a distance away from the camera’s microphone, it doesn’t capture the speaking voices quite as clearly.
IMO there isn’t a perfect solution as each approach has its caveats:
• For the Rode branded lavelier mics (or any “lav” mics for that matter), the issue is picking up clothes ruffling noises especially if the subject is wearing clothing that crinkles or has an outer layer like what David has on. There’s also the aspect of keeping them charged because the transmitters and receivers have internal batteries.
• Shotgun microphones don’t have the same clothing noise issue though they tend to require that the microphones are pointed at the sound source to get good sound (“on axis”). With you both, you also need two separate shotgun microphones to connect to the camera, which is doable but not typically straightforward as a plug and play out of box situation.
One feature you guys can shop for is something with “32 bit float audio recording”. It essentially negates issues with sound sources being too soft or loud though there needs to be some audio post production to take advantage of it. In recent years, more products at an accessible price have been including it. Not widespread common yet but it’s becoming easier to find.
Overall, a wireless lav microphone set up might be the easiest next step noting the caveats. Brands like Rode, Sennheiser, Shure, Saramonic, DJI (though there’s a pending Bill looking to ban DJI in the US. Primarily over their drones but the Bill seem to be a blanket ban across all their products), Deity all (probably) have product options at various price points to choose from.
If the camera used has a microphone port (which may be 2.5mm or 3.5mm, this needs to be checked), the products usually include the necessary cable to connect the receiver to the camera. For cameras without a microphone input, or phones, an adapter might need needed.
Other than that, IMO I’d try to go for the one with the rated battery life that’s suitable for the duration of the recording sessions and one with USB C charging in case you guys forget to charge it before hand (handy to have so the battery can be topped up last minute). 32-bit float would be a nice to have if you guys can spring for it with a bit extra budget and have someone handling audio post production to take advantage of it.
Hope something in the above helps! :)
Edit: Just found out an important detail. The 32 bit float feature in the ‘Rode Wireless Pro’ only applies to the audio recorded to the receiver. It does not send that audio to the camera. This may or may not be the case for other products
@@108u9maaaan - as someone who is currently trying to learn about audio options, this comment is SO incredibly helpful! Thanks so much for writing out all this detail! (Even though it wasn’t intended for me haha)
“Nigh unlistenable” is dramatising