{"id":2137,"date":"2009-01-08T18:33:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T00:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/01\/08\/philosophy-in-the-streets\/"},"modified":"2009-01-08T18:33:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T00:33:24","slug":"philosophy-in-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/08\/philosophy-in-the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy in the Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to see this for scientists!  Via <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2009\/01\/08\/talking-heads-2\/\">Crooked Timber<\/a>, a new film by Astra Taylor:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistfilms.com\/examinedlife\/\"><em>Examined Life<\/em><\/a>, featuring interviews with various philosophers in everyday surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>\u017di\u017eek says &#8220;Nature is a big series of unimaginable catastrophes.&#8221;  I think he meant &#8220;the blogosphere,&#8221; not &#8220;Nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do I really want to see this for scientists?  They might not make the same impression on film &#8212; scientists aren&#8217;t trained to connect what they do to the concerns of the wider world (although the connections are there).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to see this for scientists! Via Crooked Timber, a new film by Astra Taylor: Examined Life, featuring interviews with various philosophers in everyday surroundings. \u017di\u017eek says &#8220;Nature is a big series of unimaginable catastrophes.&#8221; I think he meant &#8220;the blogosphere,&#8221; not &#8220;Nature.&#8221; Do I really want to see this for scientists? They might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}